In the shops of London's Oxford Street, girls wear patterned scarves over their hair as they
cluster around makeup counters. Alongside them, hip twenty-somethings style their head …

We conduct an ethnographic case study of poor migrant women living in a Turkish squatter
to explore how consumer acculturation operates in this important context. Poor migrants …

Taking the plane or sending an e-mail: globalization has become part of the fabric of our
daily lives. And yet it is often seen as an impersonal force that is threatening to destroy …

Most theorists understand gender geographies as highly differentiated and shifting, in terms
of both time and space. If gender is historically and geographically contingent then the …

Linking veils to fashion (and Islam to modernity), this article analyzes the presence of veiled
assistants in London fashion shops as examples of spatial relations that are socializing and …

Cross-cultural marketing is an important element of the contemporary business environment.
Many conventional accounts of the topic have conflated cross-cultural and cross-national …

Bu çalışmada, son yıllarda toplumsal tabakalaşma tartışmalarının merkezindeki orta sınıf
meselesi ele alınmaktadır. Bu tartışmalar, orta sınıfın kimlerden oluştuğu, kimleri içerdiği ve …

Purpose–The aim of this paper is to discuss the reasons behind the attractiveness of
shopping malls for young consumers in Turkey and then to determine the attractiveness …

Sociological theorists have long understood the central role of status distinctions in
producing social inequality. Although empirical studies have demonstrated how status …

Gendered Fortunes Page 1 Page 2 GENDERED FORTUNES Page 3 This page
intentionally left blank Page 4 GENDERED FORTUNES divination, precarity, and affect in …