Good green mothers consuming their way through pregnancy: roles of environmental identities and information seeking in coping with the transition

AbiGhannam, Niveen; Atkinson, Lucinda Jane

doi:10.1080/10253866.2015.1121142

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“…Past consumer research highlights the significant role that consumption plays when transitioning to a new life stage (AbiGhannam and Atkinson, 2016; Noble and Walker, 1997). Most consumer research emphasizes the positive impact of consumption during liminality.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Consumption can even make life transitions more complicated and confusing and, in some cases, impede transitions out of liminality (Ogle et al, 2013; Voice Group, 2010). For example, AbiGhannam and Atkinson (2016) explore women who opt for an environmentally conscious approach to pregnancy and find that this consumption strategy makes the transition into motherhood more complex and difficult. Other research finds that consumption during divorce, such as family vacations, can both help individuals embrace their new roles in the family and avoid dealing with the changed family structure (McAlexander et al, 1992).…”

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confidence: 99%

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The Power of Sharing to Support Consumers through Liminality

Ozanne

2020

Australasian Marketing Journal

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Across a lifetime, consumers face many transitions in which they need social support. Difficult transitions are often fraught with challenges, such as transitioning from one social role to another. But social support is particularly important for consumers in liminality when they are caught between social roles failing to transition from an old to a new role. Consumers in liminality benefit if they can draw on social networks for support to help them complete their transition. In this study, we explored how one form of sharing—trading skills and services in an exchange network—provides consumers with important social support helping them to cope and transition into new social roles. Specifically, a sharing exchange network helps consumers draw emotional, cognitive, and material support that enhances their well-being and has some advantages over social support from family and friends.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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The Power of Sharing to Support Consumers through Liminality

Ozanne

2020

Australasian Marketing Journal

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“…Adams also points out that by giving animals different meat names (e.g., "veal" instead of calves, "pork" instead of pigs), the animal victims are rendered absent (2010,98). After all, it is much easier to consume anonymous body parts than an individual with an identity who comes with maternal love (see AbiGhannam and Atkinson 2016;Afflerback et al 2014; de Laat and Baumann 2014; Song and Paul 2016). 21 For a helpful account of how pregnancy consumption and environmentalism intersect, see also AbiGhannam and Atkinson (2016).…”

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The Construction of a Consumable Body

Suen

2019

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In this essay, I analyze various ways in which pregnant bodies are rendered consumable. Tracing our preoccupation with pregnancy diets, I argue that a pregnant woman is made responsible for producing a consumable body. Indeed, producing and maintaining a consumable, fetus-friendly body is a responsibility that women carry before, during, and even after pregnancy. The sphere of this responsibility is also ever-expanding: it goes from detoxing the body to disinfecting the household, and even to protecting the environment at large. I examine two conditions that help construct the maternal body as consumable: 1) the invisibility of the consumed body, and 2) the appeal to “nature” as a justification for consumption. As I will show, the default position of women as consumable is reinforced both by erasing the maternal body and by appealing to the “naturalness” of breastfeeding.

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“…Specifically, if engaging in ethical consumption makes available to people a special source of satisfaction while shopping, then it would appear to follow that people who regularly engage in ethical consumption might enjoy shopping more, other things being equal, than people who do not. But the idea that ethical consumption makes shopping more enjoyable, while supported by some studies, has been disputed by others, which find that ethical consumption is frequently stressful, confusing, and anxiety-producing (AbiGhannam and Atkinson 2016; Connolly and Prothero 2008; Johnstone and Tan 2015). To the extent that this second literature on “stressful ethical consumption” is correct, it would be reasonable to conclude that everyday shopping that includes ethical consumption might actually be less enjoyable than shopping which does not.…”

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Doing Right and Feeling Good: Ethical Food and the Shopping Experience

Schoolman

2019

Sociological Perspectives

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Does engaging in ethical consumption make shopping more enjoyable? Or does contending with social and environmental impacts in the supermarket add stress and worry to the practice of buying food? In this paper, I contribute to debates over ethical consumption and the shopping experience by directly addressing the question: Is ethical consumption associated with more enjoyable everyday shopping, specifically where food is concerned? Based on a survey of faculty, staff, and students at a large university, I show that even when controlling for socioeconomic characteristics and for where people shop, consumers who buy a range of ethical foods are more likely to take pleasure in food shopping as a whole. In other words, doing right may lead to feeling good—and this connection may represent not just an important motivation for acting on ethical values while shopping but also an integral part of what it means to be an ethical consumer.

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Good green mothers consuming their way through pregnancy: roles of environmental identities and information seeking in coping with the transition

Cited by 19 publications

References 57 publications

The Power of Sharing to Support Consumers through Liminality

The Power of Sharing to Support Consumers through Liminality

The Construction of a Consumable Body

Doing Right and Feeling Good: Ethical Food and the Shopping Experience

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