Consumption, Disposal, and Networks of Meanings of Second-Hand Clothing for Low-Income Consumers
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Consumption, Disposal, Used ClothingAbstract
Considering that disposal is still a little-explored topic in the consumer literature, this article reports the research results whose objective was to investigate how consumption, disposal, and low-income communities articulate the construction of meanings for used clothing in their context, the construction of meanings for used clothing is articulated in the context of low-income communities. We conducted twenty-five in-depth interviews with used clothing consumers in poor regions of Belo Horizonte. Based on the analysis of three categories that emerged from the corpus, the results indicate that this market is permeated by symbolic issues, especially concerning the relationship between people and clothes. We also verified that the disposal of clothes emerged as a central element for the constitution of this market.
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