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Perpetual Dispossession: An Exploration of Ownership without Possession

2016 Advances in Consumer Research Matthew Hall Xin Zhao

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Advances in Consumer Research, 2016 Vol. 44

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Marketing

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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

Perpetual Dispossession: An Exploration of Ownership without Possession

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