De la pauvreté à l'excentricité: le glanage comme révélateur des marges de la consommation

Valérie Guillard () and Dominique Roux ()
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Valérie Guillard: DRM - Dauphine Recherches en Management - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Dominique Roux: IUT de Sceaux - UP11 - Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11

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Abstract: While a significant proportion of French people (38%) reports having recovered objects thrown away or deposited on the sidewalk, the objective of this article is to provide a better understanding of how certain practices of gleaning bulky objects (freely decided rather than dictated by necessity) help reveal forms of assumed marginality rather than poverty. Based on a qualitative study of 21 gleaners and non-gleaners, the findings show that the practices of gleaning first question the fact of being poor (or to feel poor) and require informants to find justifications to allow themselves to take objects that are normally collected by municipal services. They then reveal the critics of the market system on which gleaners rely regarding i / the value, ii / the thrown objects, iii / conventional supply chains and iv / the idea of poverty that is re-examined within a reflexive lens about consumption.

Keywords: Critics of the market system; Gleaning; Bulky items; Marginality; Glanage; Marginalité; Objets encombrants; Critique du système marchand (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-01
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Published in Économies et sociétés. Série KC, Études critiques en management, 2014, 48 (3)

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