Cosima Werner

Convenience Stores as Social Spaces

Trust and Relations in Deprived Neighborhoods in the U.S.

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Produktbeschreibung

Convenience Stores as Social Spaces reveals the complexity of trust in racialized and stigmatized impoverished neighborhoods in the United States. Trust and mistrust are inherent in the atmosphere of the areas, in people’s relations, and their daily practices that construe such stores are essential social spaces.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 631g
• ISBN-13: 9781666930771
• ISBN-10: 1666930776
• Artikelnr.: 67411381

Autorenporträt

Cosima Werner is postdoctoral fellow in the Geography Department at Kiel University, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: At the Store
Chapter 1: Social Spaces and the Meaning of Trust
Chapter 2: Practices of Convenience Food Shopping
Chapter 3: Spatialities of Convenience Stores
Chapter 4: The Neighborhoods' Decline
Chapter 5: The Muddle of Daily Life
Chapter 6: Practices of Social Distinctions
Chapter 7: Practices of Trust: Relations between Immigrant Shop Owners and
Black Clientele
Conclusion: Convenience Stores as Social Spaces
Epilogue - Back at the Store
Appendix: People in this Study
References
About the Author