Consumption, Collection, Creativity: Micro-Local Practices within Children’s Bedroom Play in Urban Vancouver
Abstract
Following the growing emphasis in childhood studies on children as active consumers and agents, this paper examines creative play with Pokémon products in a micro-ethnography of children in their bedrooms. I argue that children’s processes of collection, manipulation through drawing, play, and display evidence how a mass-consumed, global product can be used both as a form of (private) self-discovery and as part of the creation and reinforcement of public social knowledge.Published
2012-01-01
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Loebenberg, Abby. 2012. “Consumption, Collection, Creativity: Micro-Local Practices Within Children’s Bedroom Play in Urban Vancouver”. Material Culture Review 74 (January). https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/MCR/article/view/20453.
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