The patterns of consumption in visa-free zones at Russia’s western borders
This article looks into habits of consumption on Russia’s western border areas. After the description of current consumption patterns, we discuss the involvement of Russian shoppers into “consumption culture”, theorised by Zygmunt Bauman. The empirics of this study cover the newly opened visa-free z...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:oai:doaj.org/article:289f021166bf416dbbf92faa1fdf2e17 2023-05-15T17:40:32+02:00 The patterns of consumption in visa-free zones at Russia’s western borders Markku Sippola Stanislaw Domaniewski 2014-01-01 https://doaj.org/article/289f021166bf416dbbf92faa1fdf2e17 en fi eng fin The Geographical Society of Northern Finland 1238-2086 2736-9722 https://doaj.org/article/289f021166bf416dbbf92faa1fdf2e17 undefined Nordia Geographical Publications, Vol 43, Iss 1 (2014) socio scipo Journal Article https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_6501/ 2014 fttriple 2023-01-22T18:49:19Z This article looks into habits of consumption on Russia’s western border areas. After the description of current consumption patterns, we discuss the involvement of Russian shoppers into “consumption culture”, theorised by Zygmunt Bauman. The empirics of this study cover the newly opened visa-free zones on border areas of the North-West Russia. We assume that in the long run an imbalance between shopping habits of corresponding nationalities will decrease. The “contagion” that now is occurring in the sphere of consumption will give rise to analogous contagions in the spheres of culture, work and social life. Furthermore, the establishment of a visa-free zone between the countries might provide an effective means to reduce the risk of so-called “border paradox” to occur. Article in Journal/Newspaper North-West Russia Unknown |
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This article looks into habits of consumption on Russia’s western border areas. After the description of current consumption patterns, we discuss the involvement of Russian shoppers into “consumption culture”, theorised by Zygmunt Bauman. The empirics of this study cover the newly opened visa-free zones on border areas of the North-West Russia. We assume that in the long run an imbalance between shopping habits of corresponding nationalities will decrease. The “contagion” that now is occurring in the sphere of consumption will give rise to analogous contagions in the spheres of culture, work and social life. Furthermore, the establishment of a visa-free zone between the countries might provide an effective means to reduce the risk of so-called “border paradox” to occur. |
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Markku Sippola Stanislaw Domaniewski |
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The patterns of consumption in visa-free zones at Russia’s western borders |
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The patterns of consumption in visa-free zones at Russia’s western borders |
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The patterns of consumption in visa-free zones at Russia’s western borders |
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The patterns of consumption in visa-free zones at Russia’s western borders |
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The patterns of consumption in visa-free zones at Russia’s western borders |
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patterns of consumption in visa-free zones at russia’s western borders |
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The Geographical Society of Northern Finland |
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