Needs, desires and the experience of scarcity: Representations of recreational shopping in post-Soviet Estonia

Journal of Consumer Culture

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 65-85

  Keller, Margit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

(Recreational) shopping; Consumer culture; Desire; Pleasure; Post Soviet

Indexed keywords

EID: 61049200776     PISSN: 14695405     EISSN: 17412900     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1469540505049844     Document Type: Article

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