Looking good: consumption and the problems of self-production

Abstract: "This article considers the anxieties and risks that attend the process of self-production in the context of consumption. Drawing from interviews with a small sample of British young adults — white, middle-class, university-educated — the article examines how material practices and discursive strategies resonate with theoretical accounts of the nexus of consumption, identity and individualization. The analysis highlights how respondents discursively cope with anxieties and risks associated with the question of style, the problem of conformity, the desire for confidence and the negotiation of gender. In doing so, the article indicates ways in which the process of self-production in contemporary consumer societies may be less reflexive, and more socially conservative, than some accounts of individualization would suggest." [author's abstract]

Standort
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
Postprint
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: European Journal of Cultural Studies ; 11 (2008) 1 ; 63-81

Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wo)
Mannheim
(wann)
2008
Urheber
Smith Maguire, Jennifer
Stanway, Kim

DOI
10.1177/1367549407084964
URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-227407
Rechteinformation
Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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25.03.2025, 13:49 MEZ

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Beteiligte

  • Smith Maguire, Jennifer
  • Stanway, Kim

Entstanden

  • 2008

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