Identity, Mobility, and the Throwaway Society
Identity, Mobility, and the Throwaway Society
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10.1068/d418t
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2007-08
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N. Gregson;A. Metcalfe;L. Crewe
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作者：
N. Gregson;A. Metcalfe;L. Crewe
本文对一次性社会的概念提出了批评。根据两年来深入的定性研究，我们认为一次性社会的概念经不起推敲。家庭在处理消费物品时，并没有扔掉东西，而是一致地同时进行节约和浪费的实践。事实证明，储蓄和浪费对于实现身份以及家庭和家庭的关键社会关系至关重要。我们聚焦于自我、夫妻关系和母子关系，展示浪费事物如何与自我叙述和特定爱情关系的制定密切相关。该论文还表明，浪费物品对于搬回家来说至关重要，它构成了剩余，进而构成了家庭财产的过剩。该论文最后指出，要了解英国越来越多的物质被浪费，需要关注爱情关系和流动性，而不是事物本身的轨迹。
This paper provides a critique of the concept of the throwaway society. Drawing on two years of intensive qualitative research, we argue that the concept of the throwaway society does not bear scrutiny. Rather than throwing things away households are shown consistently to engage in simultaneous practices of saving and wasting when getting rid of consumer objects. Saving and wasting are shown to be critical to materialising identities and the key social relations of family and home. Focusing on self, the couple relation, and the mother–child relation, we show how wasting things is intimately connected to the narration of self and to the enactment of specific love relations. The paper also shows how wasting things is central to moving home, constituting a surplus and then an excess of household possessions. The paper concludes by arguing that to understand the increasing amount of matter being turned to waste in the UK requires a focus on love relations and mobility, and not on the trajectories of things themselves.