The new sharing economy: Enacting the eco-habitus

Social Change and the Coming of Post-consumer Society: Theoretical Advances and Policy Implications

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 25-42

  Schor, Juliet B ^a   Wengronowitz, Robert ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315630168     Document Type: Chapter

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