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Making space and beating a path to a marketplace: The uneven spatial ordering of Christmas tourism markets

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Publication date22/11/2024
Host publicationMarket Studies: Mapping, Theorizing and Impacting Market Action
EditorsSusi Geiger, Katy Mason, Neil Pollock, Philip Roscoe, Annmarie Ryan, Stefan Schwarzkopf, Pascale Trompette
Place of PublicationCambridge
PublisherCambridge University Press
Pages280-293
Number of pages14
ISBN (electronic)9781009413961
ISBN (print)9781009413978
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

This chapter contributes a means of teasing out the uneven spatial ordering of markets. Taking inspiration from Schatzki’s (1991, 2001) practice-based spatial ontology, we introduce a four-part scheme made up of ‘anchors’; ‘places’; ‘settings’; and ‘paths’. We ground the concepts in an empirical account of the Finnish Lapland’s emergence as the official ‘home’ of Santa Claus and the related historical constitution of a Christmas tourism market. With the future of market studies research in mind, we argue that this conceptual framework provides a way of thinking about market making as an inherently spatial process, while also supporting investigations of how markets and the concerns they help produce take shape unevenly over time and across physical space.