Practices of object maintenance and repair: How consumers attend to consumer objects within the home

Journal of Consumer Culture

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 248-272

  Gregson, Nicky ^a   Metcalfe, Alan ^a   Crewe, Louise ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Competences value materiality; Consumer objects; Maintenance repair; Practices

Indexed keywords

EID: 67651055747     PISSN: 14695405     EISSN: 17412900     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1469540509104376     Document Type: Article

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