Becoming a ‘Chinese-American’ Parent: Whiteness, Chinese Cultural Practice, and American Parents of Children Adopted from China

Traver, Amy E.

doi:10.1057/9781137275233_12

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“…Poetry can tell difficult to reach consumption stories in ways which are unfamiliar within current consumer research and so prove additionally insightful. Considering two reasonably heavily researched forms of consumption which have been considered highly relevant to consumer research -hidden consumption (Traver, 2014) and mundane consumption (Holttinen, 2014) -additional insight and nuance have been added to the concepts through consideration of poetic data because the consumer-poet combines lived experience and skilled reflexivity.…”

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Consumer culture poetry: insightful data and methodological approaches

Tonner

2018

Consumption Markets & Culture

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Consumer culture poetry: insightful data and methodological approaches. This article makes a case for greater inclusion of poetry as distinctive data within interpretive consumer research. It considers that alternative means of representation provide insight into difficult to access consumption fields. The poetic voice allows the emergence of an emic language of experience as the subject engages in self-reflexivity expressed in ways unconstrained by typical research norms. The article also considers some of the methodological choices inherent in engaging with poetic data and illustrates the research value by considering poems that unpack hidden and mundane consumption and consumer resistance. It shows how intimate experiences can be accessed and interrogated using poetic analysis, how poetry can capture the minutia of mundane consumption while laying bare the poet's reflexivity about its meaning and how the reclamation of a dead art-form can become an active form of rejection and consumer resistance.

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Consumer culture poetry: insightful data and methodological approaches

Tonner

2018

Consumption Markets & Culture

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“…Some parents even acknowledge their own identity change through the adoption and parenting experience. Traver (2014) refers to this process as becoming "Chinese-American" or, in this case, Chinese-Canadian parents.…”

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The Color Purple?

Bian¹,

Blachford²,

Durst³

2015

JCSW

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During the past two decades, Canadian parents have been regularly adopting infants from China, and have been facing a confusing dilemma on how to introduce their children’s Chinese heritage and language. The aim of this qualitative study is to uncover the beliefs and attitudes of the adopting parents about how to best promote a healthy identify development that includes their Chinese background. Using in-depth interviews, 19 parents of 14 adopted children explored their beliefs about incorporating the Chinese heritage in the development of their girls. The findings reveal that some parents feel that it is best to emphasize Canadian culture - “she is just Canadian.” Some parents feel that it is best to leave it alone and allow the children to choose their “identity” – “she has both feet in both worlds”, whereas, other parents are proactive by introducing Chinese heritage and culture to their children at an early age. Some parents feel that their children created a new identity with the “color purple” – a hybrid and new culture that combines both their Chinese background with a mainstream Canadian lifestyle.

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Becoming a ‘Chinese-American’ Parent: Whiteness, Chinese Cultural Practice, and American Parents of Children Adopted from China

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Consumer culture poetry: insightful data and methodological approaches

Consumer culture poetry: insightful data and methodological approaches

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