Consumer culture, the mobilisation of the narcissistic self and adolescent deviant leisure

Wearing, Stephen; McDonald, Matthew; Wearing, Michael

doi:10.1080/02614367.2012.668557

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“…Freud (1975) alerts us to the narcissistic strand running through consumption whereby purchases are made to satisfy desires and add to idealised images of selves (Cluley & Dunne, 2012). Consumer culture in general may be linked to the mobilisation of a narcissistic self-identity (Wearing, McDonald, & Wearing, 2013) as selves are increasingly fashioned and differentiated through aesthetic consumption practices (Shields, 2003). Meanwhile lifestyle practises including leisure become decisions about who to be (Giddens, 1991).…”

Section: Narcissism Environmental Factorsmentioning

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Narcissism normalisation: tourism influences and sustainability implications

Canavan

2017

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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The concept of narcissism normalisation suggests that individuals and societies are becoming more narcissistic due to various cultural influences. Tourism is reviewed here as one such possible influence. Exploitative, entitled and exhibitionistic tendencies associated with narcissism are wellestablished in tourism. Yet tourism is also an intimate, communal and satisfying activity which may counteract narcissism. Increases in narcissism have significant implications from a sustainable tourism perspective. Narcissism is associated with exploitative and entitled behaviours that over time cause significant harm to those people and landscapes that come into contact with. Narcissism appears to be incompatible with principles of sustainability and the challenges this poses for the industry are reviewed, while the opportunities are also explored. There are signs that narcissism, particularly those aspects relating to exhibitionism, can be co-opted to benefit sustainable development.

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Section: Narcissism Environmental Factorsmentioning

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Narcissism normalisation: tourism influences and sustainability implications

Canavan

2017

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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“…Gen-Ys have grown up in a consumer orientated society (Bush, Martin, and Bush 2004;Noble, Haytko, and Phillips 2009;Wearing, McDonald, and Wearing 2013). They have transformed the consumer market through their tremendous spending power as they have more disposable money than any other group in history (Morton 2002).…”

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“…Cowen (2008) identifies younger people as having an obsession with purchasing the latest releases, creative culture and social experiences. This understanding of consumer society stems from the interdisciplinary field of consumer culture, which embodies the economic, cultural, social and institutional processes that drive the need to consume or possess something of value (Featherstone 2001;Lury 1996;Lury 2011;Stebbins 2009;Wearing, McDonald, and Wearing 2013).…”

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“…This tendency to consume highly accessible goods and services is driven by the consumer society . This stems from the interdisciplinary field of consumer culture, which embodies the economic, cultural, social and institutional processes that drive the need to consume or possess something of value (Featherstone 2001;Lury 1996;Lury 2011;Stebbins 2009;Wearing, McDonald, and Wearing 2013). Subsequently, consumer culture has built on the notion of cultural and social norms and the legitimisation of self-identity through the consumption of goods and services (Baudrillard [1970(Baudrillard [ ] 1998.…”

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Does Bear do it for you? Gen-Y gappers and alternative tourism

Joseph

Wearing

2014

Annals of Leisure Research

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Popular culture and travel are both major points of interest within the realm of leisure in contemporary consumer society. Respectively, they are both highly contentious and diverse fields. This paper explores the more specific areas of popular culture celebrities and alternative tourism in an effort to examine the influence that popular culture and travel engagements have on a segment of Generation Y (Gen-Y) -the gappers. These two areas of leisure activity shape social and cultural norms and influence the construction of self-identity amongst this generation. The aim of this exploratory research is to highlight some areas where popular culture and alternative tourism can be valued as constructive factors influencing a Gen-Y group. The theory of planned behaviour acted as a framework and was used to identify the influence that popular culture celebrity 'Bear' Grylls and his TV show Man vs. Wild had on the alternative tourism engagements of the Gen-Y gappers. IntroductionThis paper explores the influence that popular culture has on the travel engagements of Generation Y (Gen-Y) gappers. It then goes on to examine how popular culture and alternative travel might shape social and cultural norms as well as influence the construction of self-identity. The aim of the paper is to highlight some areas where popular culture and alternative tourism can be valued as constructive factors influencing a Gen-Y group. A case study of Edward 'Bear' Grylls and his TV show Man vs. Wild was used to explore the impacts of alternative tourism engagements on the Gen-Y gappers. It then looked to understand whether these travel engagements had an influence over their subsequent lifestyles. Studying how popular culture celebrities and alternative tourism engagements impacted the beliefs, attitudes, motivations and behaviours of a Gen-Y subgroup -the gappers -was a main focus. The selection of popular culture figure Edward 'Bear' Grylls, as an example for this research, stems from his status as 'one of the world's most recognised faces of survival and outdoor adventure' (Bear Grylls Ventures 2013).In this paper, the idea of popular culture was further refined in order to focus on the celebrity phenomenon. Popular culture was examined to see how it might reinforce and legitimise social and cultural norms and provide social comfort and shared meaning through consumption. Additionally, it investigated how opportunities for self-expression, self-enhancement and the legitimisation of a diverse range of experiences might be enabled.

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“…1 Recent works on Melanesian tourism include Senft 1999;Halvaksz 2006;Muke, Denham, and Genorupa 2007;West 2008;Martin 2010;Shaw 2010;Wearing, Wearing, and McDonald 2010;and Stasch 2011. 2 See http://www.mtsdiscoverer.auz.it/ 3 An anonymous reader mentioned the presence of tourists in David Lan's 1979 play about the Yali Movement, Sergeant Ola. messages about contemporary gender, identity, and sociality in the Melanesian postcolony.…”

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After Cannibal Tours : Cargoism and Marginality in a Post-touristic Sepik River Society

Silverman¹

2013

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This article challenges the ethical allegory of the widely hailed film Cannibal Tours, drawing on two decades of ethnographic research in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea, most recently in 2010. First, I sketch the contemporary plight of a middle Sepik, Iatmul-speaking community that yearns for a “road” to modernity and tourism but increasingly sees itself as “going backwards.” Second, I argue that tourism allows middle Sepik inhabitants to express artistically subtle messages about contemporary gender, identity, and sociality in the Melanesian postcolony. Third, I demonstrate what happens when the tourists go home. And almost all of them have done so, especially after the sale of the tourist ship, the Mela nesian Discoverer, in 2006. Tragically, the recent decline in tourism corresponds to a dramatic degradation of “basic services” offered by provincial and national authorities, and a devastating flood during the 2009–2010 rainy season. Facing all this, Iatmul feel increasingly disenfranchised, despondent, and desperate to attract new tourists and to discover, after a century of unfilled commodity desires, the source of material plenitude locally associated with modernity. Toward this aim, villagers now speak about something I never expected to hear in this once prosperous community: narratives about deceased kin, voyaging back to the village like ghostly tourists on a numinous ship, striving to bring local people wealth and commodities, only to be barred by Europeans. What happens after Cannibal Tours? The ideology of a cargo cult.

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Consumer culture, the mobilisation of the narcissistic self and adolescent deviant leisure

Cited by 26 publications

References 35 publications

Narcissism normalisation: tourism influences and sustainability implications

Narcissism normalisation: tourism influences and sustainability implications

Does Bear do it for you? Gen-Y gappers and alternative tourism

After Cannibal Tours : Cargoism and Marginality in a Post-touristic Sepik River Society

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