In this episode, hosts Mark Schulz and Alison Hager discuss the noun “shopping.”
ReNouned is a podcast for the curious. We dust off the commonplace to look for shiny new relevance as we challenge ourselves to think critically about the objects that surround us. How do they echo humanity’s past, reflect the present, or foreshadow the future?
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STUFF TO CHECK OUT FROM THIS EPISODE
Things to read:
“Monkey Business.” Dubner, Stephen J. & Levitt, Steven D. The New York Times.
Things to watch:
Orb it. Camp, Nicholas & Thiel, Don III. (2019).
Cosmos: A Space Time Odyssey with Neil deGrasse Tyson
Órbita 9. Khraiche, Hatem. (2017).
Things to listen to:
Music and sounds from Earth included on NASA Voyager’s “Golden Record.” (Includes images, as well!)
Things to do:
Make sure you know what materials your municipal recycling program does and DOESN’T take.
Shop Fair Trade & Sustainable
Take a tour of your local recycling plant, if available. For anyone in NYC, you can book a tour with Sims Municipal Recycling.
Use Freecycle.Org to rehome your no-longer-needed items that can’t be donated to a not-for-profit organization.
OTHER WORKS CITED
Barger, Harold. “A History of Sears, Roebuck.” The Journal of Economic History, vol. 11, no. 1, 1951, pp. 82–84. JSTOR
Govindarajan, Vijay. “Business Can Help End Child Labor.” Harvard Business Review. (online). April 9, 2015.
Howard, Vicki. Smithsonian Magazine. “The Rise and Fall of Sears” July 25, 2017.
Longstreth, Richard. “Sears, Roebuck and the Remaking of the Department Store, 1924-42.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, vol. 65, no. 2, 2006, pp. 238–79. JSTOR
Makowski, Elizabeth M. “Sears, Roebuck Catalog.” The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 11: Agriculture and Industry, edited by Melissa Walker and James C. Cobb, University of North Carolina Press, 2008, pp. 196–98. JSTOR
Overman, W. D. “Review: [Untitled]” (Reviewed Work: “Catalogues and Counters: A History of Sears, Roebuck & Company” The Wisconsin Magazine of History, vol. 34, no. 4, 1951, pp. 247–48. JSTOR
Samson, Peter. “The Department Store, Its Past and Its Future: A Review Article.” The Business History Review, vol. 55, no. 1, 1981, pp. 26–34. JSTOR
(Note – You can read and download the cited articles on EBSCO & JSTOR if your public library membership gives you access to these databases.)