While a significant proportion of French people (38%) reports having recovered objects thrown away or deposited on the sidewalk, the objective of this article is to provide a better understanding of how certain practices of gleaning bulky objects (freely decided rather than dictated by...

L'objectif de cet article est de montrer que la contribution d'une expérience de consommation alimentaire à la construction identitaire est conditionnée par l'appropriation du produit. Un éclairage théorique original à partir de la philosophie révèle quatre modes d'appropriation qui,...

This article aims to confront Foucault’s (2001) concept of heterotopia (2001) – the physical location of an utopia – with a "new, "informal and non-institutionalized retail space for gleaning second hand items : the sidewalk during the time of bulky item collection. A qualitative survey...