TitlePerpetual Dispossession: An Exploration of Ownership without Possession
Publication TypeJournal Articles
Year of Publication2016
AuthorsHall, M, Zhao, X
JournalAdvances in Consumer Research
Volume44
Date Published2016
KeywordsMarketing
Abstract

We examine disruptions in the consumption cycle as possessions are divested of meanings, but never disposed. This perpetual process of dispossession results in legal ownership of objects, without explicit incorporation into the self. Through an ethnographic approach, we examine factors contributing perpetual dispossession and discuss implications for the extended self

URLhttps://www.acrwebsite.org/volumes/v44/acr_vol44_1021173.pdf
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