On not keeping up with the Joneses: Is it 'alternative' not to shop?

Interrogating Alterity: Alternative Economic and Political Spaces

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 131-144

  Jarvis, Helen ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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