Embodied ethnicity: the ethnic affiliation grounded in the body

Dion, Delphine; Sitz, Lionel; Rémy, É.

doi:10.1080/10253866.2011.574834

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“…Following Beilin's method (2005), we first asked 25 informants to take 10 photographs of their home: five pictures of messy places and five of tidy places. We asked the informants to take the photographs themselves, because they were likely to photograph things that were meaningful for them, while the researcher might focus on things that were not necessarily significant to the informants (Beilin 2005;Dion, Sitz, and Rémy 2011;Wallendorf and Arnould 1991). It seems key to ask informants to take the pictures themselves because symbolic pollution does not exist intrinsically but in "the eye of the beholder" (Douglas 1967).…”

Section: Photo-elicitation: Data Collection and Analysismentioning

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Home Sweet Messy Home: Managing Symbolic Pollution

Dion¹,

Sabri²,

Guillard³

2014

J Consum Res

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Hanging up our coat, tidying our desk, classifying our books, what meanings do these mundane practices convey? Extending Mary Douglas's work, this article investigates tidiness from the angle of symbolic pollution. Based on photo-elicitation, it shows that, similarly to symbolic pollution described at a macro-social level, tidiness depends on two conditions, namely, a set of classifications and the dangerous transgression of these classifications. However, at a micro-social level, individuals negotiate boundaries between classifications in order to cope with symbolic pollution. Consumers define their domestic classifications through a juxtaposition of micro-practices, which does not necessarily create a hierarchically ordered system but which enables these consumers to avoid anomalies and transgressions. Furthermore, respondents are willing to break tidiness rules on specific occasions because the danger-beliefs associated with transgression are context-dependent. This analysis of tidiness gives new insights into materiality, emphasizing the cultural meaning of ordering one's possessions.H anging up our coat, sorting out papers on our desk, classifying our books, storing our groceries in the kitchen, why are these everyday and apparently normal practices so important to study? What specific meanings do these mundane daily activities convey? According to Mary Douglas (1967), these ordinary practices deploy our system of symbolic classification, that is, the social assignment of things to their place. Putting things in their place is more than placing them in a specific physical Delphine Dion (dion.iae@univ-paris1.fr) is associate professor of marketing, Sorbonne Business School, Paris. Ouidade Sabri (ouidade.sabri @u-pec.fr) is professor of marketing, Paris-Est University, UPEC, Créteil, France. Valérie Guillard (valerie.guillard@dauphine.fr) is associate professor of marketing, University of Paris Dauphine, Paris. The authors thank the JCR editorial team for their very helpful and insightful comments and particularly the associate editor for his remarkable involvement and suggestions. They would also like to thank Eric Arnould, Søren Askegaard, and Barry Babin for their helpful feedback on earlier drafts of this article. The authors wish to express their gratitude to the informants for sharing their time and aspects of their home and of their domestic lives. They are grateful for support provided by the Sorbonne Business School and the DRM research center at Paris Dauphine University.

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Section: Photo-elicitation: Data Collection and Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Home Sweet Messy Home: Managing Symbolic Pollution

Dion¹,

Sabri²,

Guillard³

2014

J Consum Res

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“…Extending knowledge of identity and subjectivity emerging in space (Foucault, 1995), we suggest that future research could investigate cases of workers and consumers as constituted in porous, open spatial systems (Hill et al, 2014; Thrift, 2008) where smell forms both immediate and remembered attachments between bodies and locations as diverse as employment sites, regions, consumption communities, family, and food cultures, thus intersecting with existing conversations in consumer research (e.g. Dion et al, 2011; Moisio et al, 2004).…”

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Nosenography

2017

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Nosenography is a theoretical and methodological commitment to uncover the presences and practices of smell, an often-ignored sensory feature of market and consumption spaces. Drawing on prior social science theorizations of smell as well as contemporary sensory marketing practices, we develop a framework to understand how smell features in spatial assemblages of bodies, locations and experiences. Extending theorizations of product smells and ambient smells, we show how this framework can guide knowledge of the sensing, practice and management of smell and space. We explain that smell is a dynamic and unruly force that (i) encodes spaces with meaning, (ii) identifies bodies with spaces, and (iii) punctuates the temporal experience of space as it changes. Nosenography reaffirms that spaces of consumption are multisensory and that this quality should be further acknowledged in figuring market spaces as dynamic and contested assemblages of heterogeneous constituents.

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“…My going home is/always a deeply embodied experience, involving entangled ontologies, hauntings, embodied ethnicities (see Dion et al, 2011 ; Fitzpatrick, 2014 , 2018 ). A Māori world view understands “all objects, ideas, places, animals, forces and people are in ‘full relationship’ and therefore influence each other” ( Mika, 2017 , p. 123).…”

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#Plugging Into Hope

Fitzpatrick

2020

Qualitative Inquiry

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This is a critical autoethnography of my “plugging into hope” through engagement with the Massive_Micro project as I was, literally and simultaneously, plugging into my computer during the COVID-19 pandemic isolation. In this article, I demonstrate the art of #plugging into hope. Through drawing on a range of visual, poetic, and narrative data generated throughout this project, I write my story, creating an assemblage of plugging in moments with human and non-human. Adding to an ongoing conversation with art-making, writing, and my scholarly ghosts. Highlighting the significance of deliberately plugging into embodied intra-action with our world/s—connecting to hope.

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Embodied ethnicity: the ethnic affiliation grounded in the body

Cited by 50 publications

References 80 publications

Home Sweet Messy Home: Managing Symbolic Pollution

Home Sweet Messy Home: Managing Symbolic Pollution

Nosenography

#Plugging Into Hope

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