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TY - JOUR
T1 - Extending Holt's consuming typology to encompass subject-subject relations in consumption
T2 - lessons from pet ownership
AU - Cheetham, Fiona C.
AU - McEachern, Morven
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - This paper adapts Holt’s typology of consumption practices to illuminate consumption practices within the context of British consumers and their household pets. The photo-elicitation technique, autodriving, is used to elicit stories from our participants concerning their cats and dogs. Holt’s typology provides a strong foundation for illuminating the consumption practices described in these stories. However, in order to capture the cultural meanings and social dynamics that animate these consumption practices more fully, we propose extending Holt’s framework so as to incorporate (1) the agency of the animal; (2) the incidence of literal play; and (3) the moral values underlying consuming as classification. This paper concludes with a discussion on the value of our proposed additions in relation to future cultural studies of human–animal relations and to future cultural studies of consumption in general.
AB - This paper adapts Holt’s typology of consumption practices to illuminate consumption practices within the context of British consumers and their household pets. The photo-elicitation technique, autodriving, is used to elicit stories from our participants concerning their cats and dogs. Holt’s typology provides a strong foundation for illuminating the consumption practices described in these stories. However, in order to capture the cultural meanings and social dynamics that animate these consumption practices more fully, we propose extending Holt’s framework so as to incorporate (1) the agency of the animal; (2) the incidence of literal play; and (3) the moral values underlying consuming as classification. This paper concludes with a discussion on the value of our proposed additions in relation to future cultural studies of human–animal relations and to future cultural studies of consumption in general.
KW - consumption practices
KW - pets
KW - consumer-object relations
KW - agency
KW - play
KW - moral values
U2 - 10.1080/10253866.2011.652826
DO - 10.1080/10253866.2011.652826
M3 - Journal article
VL - 16
SP - 91
EP - 115
JO - Consumption, Markets and Culture
JF - Consumption, Markets and Culture
SN - 1477-223X
IS - 1
ER -