Charity shops, retailing, consumption and society
11 am - 5pm 15th April 1999
Westminster College, Oxford
Convenor: Avril Maddrell
Registration Fee including lunch: £20 (£15 postgrauates/ unwaged)
This interdiscipinary day conference presents a wealth of new work in the
emerging field of charity shops research.
PROGRAMME:
10.00 - 10.30 am
registration and coffee
10.30 - 11.00 am
Charity shops: from serendipity to strategy.
Sue Horne, Department of Marketing, University of Stirling
11.00 - 11.30am
Selling charity, organising charity shops
Richard Goodall, Department of Geography, University College London
Coffee 11.30 - 11.45am
11.45. - 12.15 pm
Selling charity? The reconstitution of the charity shop as a paradoxical
space in the high street.
Nicky Gregson Department of Geography, University of Sheffield and Louise
Crewe, Department of Geography, University of Nottingham
12.15 - 12.45
Charity shops in Bristol: not simply shopping
Liz Parsons, Department of Geography, University of Bristol
Lunch
12.45 - 2.00
2.00 - 2.30
Charity shop volunteers: a case for tender loving care?
Roy Whithear
2.30 - 3.00 Charity shops: community service?
Avril Maddrell, School of Humanities, Westminster College, Oxford
3.00- 3.15 Tea
3.15- 3.45
Why is there so little research on secondhand goods? An interpretative survey.
Edmund Chattoe, Department of Sociology, University of Surrey
3.45 - 4.15
The contribution By UK charity shopsto poverty alleviation in southern Africa
Simone Field, Division of Geography, University of Coventry
4.15. 4. 45
Plenary discussion
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Charity shops, retailing, consumption and society
11 am - 5pm 15th April 1999
Westminster College, Oxford
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Registration Fee including lunch: £20 / £15 (postgrauates/ unwaged)
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