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.
Everyone Wants a Piece of the Secondhand Pie: A conversation with Suzanne Butler
Mergers & Acquisitions
36 minutes 42 seconds
3 months ago
Everyone Wants a Piece of the Secondhand Pie: A conversation with Suzanne Butler
Brie Berry Overview 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.
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 2: Everyone wants a piece of the secondhand pie
In this episode, Dr. Brie Berry has a conversation with Suzanne Butler, a full-time reseller, about what it takes to be a reseller, why prices are rising in thrift stores, and how gentrification in reuse markets is more complex than we might think.
Guests:
Suzanne Butler Suzanne Butler is a thrifter, online reseller and content creator on a mission to prove shopping secondhand can be stylish and fun.
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.
