Repair cafés in the Netherlands:Capitalist abstinence as a challenge to a linear capitalist economy
Repair cafés have become a common phenomenon in the Netherlands and some other European countries. In repair cafés, owners of broken objects and volunteer-repairers meet to try to salvage broken appliances. While their economic effect is negligible, repair cafés are a small step towards attaining a circular economy because they motivate their visitors to lead more sustainable lives. By extending the life-cycle of objects, by refusing payment and by criticizing producers who frustrate repair by impractical design, customers and volunteers challenge the capitalist mode of production.
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2023 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Colombijn , F & Egboko , P 2023 , ' Repair cafés in the Netherlands : Capitalist abstinence as a challenge to a linear capitalist economy ' , Vibrant Virtual Brazilian Anthropology , vol. 20 , e20911 , pp. 1-21 . https://doi.org/10.1590/1809-43412023v20d911 |
Schlagwörter: | capitalist abstinence / circular economy / community repair / extension of product life / moral consumption / planned obsolescence |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-29213339 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://research.vu.nl/en/publications/1523fb31-53be-4474-b808-9cbaed4ea775 |