dc.contributor.author | Woodward, Ian | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-05-03T14:25:03Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-05-03T14:25:03Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2011 | |
dc.date.modified | 2013-05-30T00:43:32Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1469-5405 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1177/1469540511417997 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/43960 | |
dc.description.abstract | This paper addresses some fundamental questions in the field of consumption studies through an exploration of literatures within object-relations psychoanalytic theory. It takes materiality as its central concern, dealing especially with questions of actor- commodity relations. In particular the paper uses the conceptual apparatus of the object-relations approach to propose a new way for theorizing aspects of consumption practice relating to person-object relationships. After situating the discussion within contemporary debates in consumption studies, the paper uses DWWinnicott's work as a point from which to integrate broader literatures on aesthetic experience and subject- object relations. The paper draws out the cultural implications and affinities of Winnicott's model and argues that his approach usefully suggests pathways for developing a model of consumption which neither reduces person-object exchanges to the psyche, assemblages of practices, or to the dead hand of social-structural forces. Rather, it is argued that Winnicott's model is suggestive of the more widespread and powerful cultural implications arising from relations between actors and objects of consumption. | |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Yes | |
dc.description.publicationstatus | Yes | |
dc.format.extent | 120514 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Sage Publications | |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | |
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublication | N | |
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom | 366 | |
dc.relation.ispartofpageto | 384 | |
dc.relation.ispartofissue | 3 | |
dc.relation.ispartofjournal | Journal of Consumer Culture | |
dc.relation.ispartofvolume | 11 | |
dc.rights.retention | Y | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Marketing | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Sociology | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Social theory | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Cultural studies | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 3506 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 4410 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 441005 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 4702 | |
dc.title | Towards an object-relations theory of consumerism: The aesthetics of desire and the unfolding materiality of social life | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dc.type.description | C1 - Articles | |
dc.type.code | C - Journal Articles | |
gro.faculty | Arts, Education & Law Group, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences | |
gro.rights.copyright | © 2011 SAGE Publications. This is the author-manuscript version of the paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version. | |
gro.date.issued | 2011 | |
gro.hasfulltext | Full Text | |
gro.griffith.author | Woodward, Ian S. | |