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Cogent Business & ManagementThis study aims to examine the antecedents and consequences of brand hate in shopping malls, using a tripartite model of hate within the Cognitive-Affective-Behavioral (CAB) framework.
Ahmad S. Ajina +5 more
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To Shop or Not to Shop: A Critique of Mall Culture
This paper delves into the complex interplay between consumer culture and commercial interests within modern shopping malls, using GVK One Mall in Hyderabad as a case study. Initially conceived as community hubs, malls have evolved into profit-driven entities, employing various strategies to manipulate consumer behaviour.
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 2, Page 620-637, June 2026.The production‐distribution‐consumption triad has structured how anthropologists understand exchange for roughly a century. This article argues for expanding this triad to include an explicit focus on acquisition – the systems, processes, and practices of acquiring.
Hanna Garth
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Consumer Buying Behavior at Shopping Malls: Does Gender Matter?
, 2018 The development of shopping malls is a major social and global phenomenon that has unearthed a novel facet for customer satisfaction and their consequent or relative buying behavior.
Soni, S. +5 more
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Welcome to the Anthropozine! DIY Booklets as an Alternative to the Peer‐Reviewed Publication
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 2, Page 416-423, June 2026.ABSTRACT Peer‐reviewed publications remain the most accepted form of knowledge production and distribution in academia today. But such formal publications are often deeply exclusionary, especially for undergraduate and early graduate students as well as scholars tackling highly stigmatized subjects.
Nicholas C. Kawa
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The prevailing model of shopping center (henceforth SC) in Brazil, with big-sized buildings and few visual connections/accesses to the city, provokes discontinuities in the urban fabric, whereas in their interiors distinct ways of sociability diverge from those existing in public spaces.
Maia, Ítalo +2 more
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Activism for Socialist Industrial Heritage in Romania: The Carbochim Project Controversy
Area, Volume 58, Issue 2, June 2026.Short Abstract This study aims to better understand activism in the Romanian post‐socialist society during a struggle to preserve the socialist industrial heritage of Carbochim, in Cluj‐Napoca, Romania. From an urban activist perspective, we present a failed heritagisation process because of commercial‐oriented real estate development, but that enables
Oana‐Ramona Ilovan +3 more
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Bringing Nuance to Real Estate Financialisation: Insights From Brazil
Area, Volume 58, Issue 2, June 2026.ABSTRACT Real estate has re‐emerged as an object of inquiry in geography and urban studies in recent years, particularly through the lens of the financialisation debate. The literature on financialisation has extensively documented how finance has reshaped real estate markets, often prioritising short‐term rent extraction in ways that can undermine ...
Stefano Pagin, Daniel Sanfelici
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Diasporic Connections Revisited: Modest Fashion and Digital Fashion Activism
Area, Volume 58, Issue 2, June 2026.Short Abstract This invited commentary responds to the power and residues of Irene Hardill and Parvati Raghuram's 1998 Area article ‘Diasporic Connections’. It makes three interlinked points on connection/disconnection and visibility/invisibility of female labour in British South Asian and modest fashion.
Saskia Warren
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