SEA’s podcast, Mergers and Acquisitions demonstrates how anthropological and other perspectives can enhance and complicate understandings of economic life and contemporary events. Mergers and Acquisitions hosts interviews with leading economic anthropologists, provides reflection pieces on economic transformations and problems, and serves as a vehicle for new and established scholars to connect with each other. Recognizing that the best ideas and insights are rarely generated alone, Mergers and Acquisitions offers a collective mind-hive for furthering the study of economic life.
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SEA’s podcast, Mergers and Acquisitions demonstrates how anthropological and other perspectives can enhance and complicate understandings of economic life and contemporary events. Mergers and Acquisitions hosts interviews with leading economic anthropologists, provides reflection pieces on economic transformations and problems, and serves as a vehicle for new and established scholars to connect with each other. Recognizing that the best ideas and insights are rarely generated alone, Mergers and Acquisitions offers a collective mind-hive for furthering the study of economic life.
Have They Gentrified the Poor Folks’ Store? A conversation with Cindy Isenhour and Mora Reinka
Mergers & Acquisitions
44 minutes 12 seconds
3 months ago
Have They Gentrified the Poor Folks’ Store? A conversation with Cindy Isenhour and Mora Reinka
Series Title: The Rise of Resale
Brie BerryOverview of series: As secondhand markets boom across the United States and the globe, it's time to ask whether all of this growth is a good thing. Along with scholars and practitioners, we'll critically explore the rise of online resale markets, the social value of secondhand economies, the seeming decline of stigma, and the potential rise of gentrification.
Series Host: Dr. Brie Berry is an Assistant Professor of Environment & Sustainability at Ursinus College. Her teaching, research, and engaged work focus on building just and equitable circular economies.
Episode 1: Have they gentrified the poor folks’ store?
In this episode, Dr. Brie Berry, Dr. Cindy Isenhour, and Dr. Mora Reinka discuss the rise of resale economies in recent years and their collaborative research on stigma and gentrification in reuse markets. How is gentrification shaping secondhand economies, and is the growth of more sustainable consumption practices always a good thing?
Guests
Cindy Isenhour Mora Reinka
Dr. Cindy Isenhour is a Professor of Anthropology and Climate Change at the University of Maine where her research explores the cultural construction and contemporary reproduction of linear production-consumption-disposal systems and their associated effects on the environment and climate.
Dr. Mora Reinka is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Ursinus College where she teaches and researches about the effects of stigma on our health and wellbeing.
Mergers & Acquisitions
SEA’s podcast, Mergers and Acquisitions demonstrates how anthropological and other perspectives can enhance and complicate understandings of economic life and contemporary events. Mergers and Acquisitions hosts interviews with leading economic anthropologists, provides reflection pieces on economic transformations and problems, and serves as a vehicle for new and established scholars to connect with each other. Recognizing that the best ideas and insights are rarely generated alone, Mergers and Acquisitions offers a collective mind-hive for furthering the study of economic life.
