Materials against materiality

Ingold, Timothy

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“…But material goods have also been examined as the embodiment of cultural ideals, achieved through a process supported by interactions between consumers and objects (Ingold, 2007;Dant, 2008;Woodward, 2011).…”

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“…First, we extend research on materiality, which attends mostly to finished products (Ingold, 2007), through advancing our understanding of the outcomes of consumer interaction with material elements, namely material substances, designer intentions, and marketing efforts inscribed in consumption objects (Dant, 2008;Ingold, 2012;Borgerson, 2013).…”

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“…At a philosophical level, we agree with Miller (2005, p. 10); however, at a more practical level, we argue that pre-objectification does exist, and it is comprised in the process of materialization by which material substances, designer intentions, and marketing efforts are brought together to give origin to -and become -a consumption object. 10 10 Even though theories of objectification have advanced consumer researchers' understanding of materiality, they have downplayed the role of the material substances and design intentions that go into composing objects in that process (Dant, 2008;Ingold, 2007). In other disciplines, researchers examining how consumers relate with objects have noted that individuals not only relate to finished objects, but also to the elements that compose those objects.…”

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“My plastic dreams”: Towards an extended understanding of materiality and the shaping of consumer identities

Ferreira

Scaraboto

2016

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Individuals relate to consumption objects as a means to develop, reinforce, transform, or align their fragmented individual identities. Prior research has mainly focused on understanding the identity-shaping potential of finished consumer products, such as branded shoes. Less attention has been dedicated to understanding how material substances, designer intentions, and marketing efforts jointly influence materiality and the shaping of consumers' identities. Drawing from a netnographic investigation of an online community of plastic shoe aficionados, we extend current understandings of object-consumer relations to include pre-objectification -a process whereby cultural forms are translated into material objects. This expanded view allows us to examine the outcomes of consumer interaction with material elements inscribed in consumption objects. Our study uncovers a collective materialization process where culturally situated material interactions give shape to consumer identities and feed back into consumer culture.Keywords: materiality, object relations, objectification, consumer identity, plastic shoes, netnography 2 2 "My plastic dreams": Toward an extended understanding of materiality and the shaping of consumer identities IntroductionConsumer research has extensively examined how interactions with products help consumers to shape their identities and selves (Belk, 1998;Ahuvia, 2005). Product design, for instance, can elicit infatuation in object-consumer relations (Lastovicka and Sirianni, 2011), and consumers may become attached and develop relationships with specific material objects, independently of these objects' brands (Lastovicka and Sirianni, 2013). Although recent research in various disciplines has started to move beyond finished consumption objects to look at the material characteristics objectified in them, a comprehensive framework for examining the identity-shaping outcomes of consumers' interaction with pre-objectification elements is absent (Dant, 2008;Ingold, 2012;Borgerson, 2013). The "thingness" of consumption objects (Miller, 1987(Miller, , 2005 thus has the potential to support consumer identity-shaping in ways that we do not fully understand. Our study addresses this gap by proposing an expanded view of materiality that considers how interaction with objectified material elements may influence consumers' identity projects.In elaborating our framework, we focus on shoes, a consumption object that is frequently associated with consumers' identity-shaping efforts (Belk, 2003;Marion and Nairn, 2011). Shoes, like clothes, are an example of an object that is "especially suitable for studying the relationship between personal values and values attributed to material goods because of its close association with perceptions of the self" (Crane and Bovone, 2006). Material culture surrounding shoes stimulates consumer imaginations through fantasies and dreams of escape from reality (Huey and Proctor, 2011). In many fairy tales, movies and TV shows, shoes are gifted with "the magical power t...

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2016

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“…The term encapsulates a concern with the study of the physical characteristics of objects, alongside an understanding that humans consciously engage with things and are socially shaped by those engagements Knappett, 2012). As Knappett (2012) remarks, there is a tension between emphasis on the physical aspect of materiality and emphasis on its social aspect, as illustrated in the debate sparked by Ingold's (2007) puzzlement that the discussion of materiality and material culture frequently seemed to have little to say about materials. On the other hand, Jones (2004Jones ( , 2012 suggests that materiality provides an approach that actually links materials science and material culture studies: understanding the physical properties of materials and things facilitates an understanding of their social and cultural construction.…”

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The Role of Stone in Island Societies in Neolithic Atlantic Europe: Creating Places and Cultural Landscapes

Cooney¹

2017

ARCTIC

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ABSTRACT. The focus of the paper is an engagement with the significance of the exploitation of stone sources to make objects, particularly stone axe heads on islands in northwest Europe during the Neolithic period (4000 -2500 BC). Case studies of Lambay Island in the Irish Sea, Rathlin Island off the northeast coast of Ireland, and the Shetland Islands explore the use of these three stone sources through the archaeological record, examining the biographies of objects (from quarries, through use, to discard or deposition) and applying a range of approaches to understanding material culture. What emerges is an understanding of the central role these three lithic sources played in how people engaged with and created their island places and landscapes. Through their daily engagement with different stone sources (including the ones focused on here) at a range of scales, people created and sustained social relationships and conventions. Hence it is argued that stone artefacts from local sources played a special role in shaping identities on the three islands.

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“…So as to affirm the radical imaginary as a "matter of matter", we draw on a new materialism of materials (Ingold 2011) and on a new materialism of the encounter (Guattari 2011). Firstly, this new materialism proposes an ecology: a radically revised thinking about organisms and their relations to their environments, formulated in terms of constant negotiations and co--habitations (Ingold 2000;Bateson 1972;Guattari 2011;Haraway 2003).…”

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Children's imaginaries in the city: on things and materials

Soreanu

Hurducaş

2015

Children's Geographies

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Abstract:The article is an exploration of urban imaginaries emerging through a play with materials. Starting from a complex activist exercise for reimagining the space of a park in decay, whose protagonists are children, we propose a reflection on the productivity and resilience of matter. We argue that a new materialist sociology is one that takes disappearances seriously. Capitalism renders space abstract not only through flow and circulation, but also through stillness. We follow the curious disappearances and reappearances of the park in question, tracing the mutations of urban planning, of the juridical domain, and of the everyday use of space. Finally, we analyse the making of a maquette of the park by a group of children and their alliances with activists. The maquette is a political "thing": it leads us away from an urban imaginary populated by discrete objects to an urban imaginary of depth and it reconcretises space. Key words: children's imaginaries, radical social imaginaries, new materialism, children's participation.3 Introduction In his writings Althusser (2006) insisted that materialism is the most difficult problem that we encounter as social thinkers. We here propose a sociology of disappearances and reappearances, as part of a new materialism of the encounter. Things are not static, but they are in constant movement. Things leak out of themselves. Things leak into invisibility. The new materialist sociology we argue for is one that takes disappearances seriously.In the past two decades, a creative place of utterance has emerged in critical urban scholarship: it is a place defined by surpassing a firm opposition between poststructuralism (which has tended to dispense with things) and Marxian phenomenology (which has tended to substitute things for objects, and to argue that we have lost the thingness of things to objects). The productivity and the resilience of matter became the most important materialist story to recuperate (Coole and Frost 2010). Matter returned, but in its processual insistence, as matter that becomes, rather than as matter that is.To this discussion, we add two peculiar questions. How can we tell a story of a disappearance of an urban space (here, it is the space of a park) from urban imaginaries? As we show, capital accumulation turns space invisible. How does space reappear through creative alliances of children and activists around materials? By

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Materials against materiality

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“My plastic dreams”: Towards an extended understanding of materiality and the shaping of consumer identities

The Role of Stone in Island Societies in Neolithic Atlantic Europe: Creating Places and Cultural Landscapes

Children's imaginaries in the city: on things and materials

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