...Hugo Valenzuela-Garcia; Miranda Jessica Lubbers; Jose Luis Molina Purpose The aim of the paper is to ethnographically detail the poverty-shame nexus in contemporary Spain, and to highlight the contradictions of the newly adopted consumption-based models of inclusion led by charities. Design...

..., beauty and refined taste are prime carriers of value (Böhme, 2003). As we become cut loose from traditional markers of identity, such as gender role expectations, secure occupational status, sexuality and perhaps even class, it is to the sphere of consumption that we have increasingly turned in order...