Archaeologies of City Life

Commercial Culture, Masculinity, and Spatial Relations in 1980s London

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4475841
AutoresFrank Mort (University of Portsmouth, autor de correspondencia)
Año1995
Volumen13
Número5
Páginas573-590
Fecha de publicación1995-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEnvironment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/d130573
OpenAlexW2132314985
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas24
Referencias citadas20

Studies of contemporary systems of consumption across the humanities and social sciences are frequently shadowed by a recurrent problem. Difficulties centre on the tendency to construct a set of general theories, pitched at high levels of abstraction, about the economic and cultural transformations which have been associated with recent shifts in the structure of demand. It is argued that such a synthetic use of the concept of consumption cannot grasp the specificities of particular market sectors and their attendant forms of cultural and spatial relations. In this paper I propose a more precise and grounded focus to study the formation of a particular regime of gendered commerce in one area of London during the 1980s. The study demonstrates the ways in which a distinctive grouping of media professionals and cultural entrepreneurs occupied a pivotal role in the transformations taking place in Soho during this period. Shifts in the material and symbolic structures of social space were central to this process of urban change, which drew on earlier representations of city life to claim cultural authority. It was this metropolitan regime which actively shaped the production of a series of identifiable masculine identities. Such personas were plural and diverse, rather than unified and monolithic. The product of different masculine communities in the area, they were linked by consumer culture, but differentiated by their access to heterosocial or homosocial space

Aesthetics · Construct (python library · Consumption (sociology · Geography · Masculinity · Metropolitan area · Plural · Product (mathematics · Set (abstract data type · Social science · Social space · Sociology · Cultural History and Identity Formation · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · Gender Studies · Scottish History and National Identity

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