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SANCHEZ-CASANOVA, Wendy Marilú. Barter in the Path of a Citizen-Consumer: An Autoethnographic Viewpoint. Polít. globalidad. ciudad. [online]. 2022, vol.8, n.16, pp.223-241.  Epub 06-Oct-2023. ISSN 2395-8448.  https://doi.org/10.29105/pgc8.16-11.

Barter comes from citizen-costumer, exchanging good or services for others without monetary reference (use value that provides welfare) and its context is the social and solidarity economy. The aim of this study was to describe barter as a supportive practice facilitating the learning process of a citizen-consumer, who puts a critical awareness first when deciding how purchase goods and services. Following a qualitative methodology, through auto-ethnography focused on an individual barter experience in Mexico City (from 2012 to 2014) in three stages: 1) decision to be citizen-consumer, 2) specific barter experience and 3) how that experience ended. Barter was found to promote sustainability, as the crossing of objects with useful life resists planned and perceived obsolescence, constituting an innovative, community and conscious exercise based on trust and organic interactions, inspiring actions for a broad individual and collective presence on the stage sociopolitical. However, barter could be restricted by the lack of coincidence of needs and desires. It is concluded that barter is a learning process that involves tries and error, building and deconstructing individuals, societies, expectations, and practices aimed at addressing poverty and inequality caused by the pre-eminence of the paradigm of value change.

Palabras llave : Consumption; social and solidary economy; exchange; use value..

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