التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Dinner for two : how collective practices and identities emerge over time |
| المؤلفون: |
Khanijou, Ratna |
| بيانات النشر: |
Royal Holloway, University of London, 2020. |
| سنة النشر: |
2020 |
| المجموعة: |
Royal Holloway, University of London |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
collective consumption, collective practice, Couples, collective identity, meal practices, practice theory, identity, routines, ethnogrpahy |
| الوصف: |
The aim of this study is to understand how collective practices and collective identities emerge over time in the context of newly cohabited couples. Existing literature suggests consumption plays a key role in consumer identity transitions, however research mainly focuses on individual perspectives of identity and consumption. Inspired by recent trends of practice theory and how engagement with materiality allows identities to emerge (Miller, 1987), this study analyses the meal consumption practices of newly cohabited couples. In particular, the research seeks to understand how collective routines and collective identities emerge through time. The method consisted of a 1-year longitudinal ethnographic study consisting of participant observation and in-depth semi-structured interviews with 13 newly cohabited couples. The ethnography entailed shopping and attending evening meals with couples at their homes. Data consisted of speech-in-action, fieldnotes and interview transcripts, analysed through thematic analysis to find common themes. Theoretically, the contributions to practice theory and identity are twofold. First, the study shows how a collective consumption routine is born over time. Findings reveal how elements such as meanings, competences and materials within a consumption practice are key in shaping the practice from individual to collective performers. In particular, synergies in practice coperformances are formed via three processes: blending, combining and domineering elements. Second, the study illustrates how, over time, collective identities emerge as a dialectical process of interaction between actors and their co-engagements in practices. Findings reveal that collective identity-work emerge through symbolization of the meal, materialization of collective aspirations and embodiment of collective routines. The study therefore links existing practice theories to identity theories using Miller's dialectical materiality theory. The research opens up a new theoretical lens of analysing collective identity from a collective perspective through practice. |
| نوع الوثيقة: |
Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| اللغة: |
English |
| URL الوصول: |
https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.855310 |
| رقم الانضمام: |
edsble.855310 |
| قاعدة البيانات: |
British Library EThOS |