Paradoxes of Affiliation in the Contemporary Family

Déchaux, Jean-Hugues

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“…Second, compared to a curatorial form of consumption (McCracken 1988), our findings reveal a more playful, proactive, and craft-oriented heirloom consumption style. If heirlooms face a tension between the present and the past, reflecting the dilemma of being in a family and being an individual (Dechaux 2002;Favart-Jardon 2002), rejuvenation empowers consumers to interact more creatively with their heirlooms. By altering these objects without damaging their perceived authenticity and power of summoning the past, consumers can heed the past while becoming in the present.…”

Section: Advance Access Publication February 19 2016mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…On one hand, the work of current and future heirs can enhance heirlooms' inalienability. New generations can (re)construct an heirloom's myths and stories, adding layers of meanings to it (Arnould and Epp 2006;Belk 1992;Dechaux 2002;Epp and Price 2008;Favart-Jardon 2002;Kramer 2011;Mason 2008;Stone 1988). Moreover, changes in household networks can reinstate a forgotten heirloom at the center of family practices (Epp and Price 2010).…”

Section: Consumption Of Heirloomsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Continuity Through Change: Navigating Temporalities Through Heirloom Rejuvenation

Türe¹,

Ger²

2016

J Consum Res

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This study explores how heirlooms, usually regarded as objects of family identity and stability, can also become objects of evolving personal identities and change. Our approach is based on the role of materiality (as well as meanings) and multitemporality in heirloom consumption. The data generated through interviews, visual sources, and media documents reveal three rejuvenation processes that, given particular boundary conditions, renew heirlooms: uncovering, refreshing, and reconciliation. Our study also distinguishes three types of heirloom essence that can survive the heirloom's material and compositional transformations. Rejuvenation reintegrates the heirloom into the heir's life trajectory by imbuing it with a zeitgeist value and the heir's presence, helping the heir to better navigate her imaginaries of the past, present, and future. Beyond the ritualistic consumption or curation of heirlooms, our findings reveal a creative, playful, and proactive relation with heirlooms, evocative of craftwork. Moreover, the market, within particular boundaries, can help authenticate heirloom objects and facilitate their inalienability rather than necessarily destroying their authenticity. Our study has implications for the role of heirloom consumption in consumers' negotiations of continuity and change, the interaction of the symbolic and the material in heirlooms, and the inalienability-market relation.

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Section: Advance Access Publication February 19 2016mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Consumption Of Heirloomsmentioning

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Continuity Through Change: Navigating Temporalities Through Heirloom Rejuvenation

Türe¹,

Ger²

2016

J Consum Res

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“…The family as such was increasingly seen as chosen or achieved instead of ascribed (see, e.g. Déchaux 2002;Smart 2007;Weston 1997). Recently, researchers have been discussing about alternative notions to be used when studying families and family life, such as relatedness, intimacy and personal life, as ways to circumvent the problematic presumptions ingrained into the conception of 'the family' (e.g.…”

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Personal understandings and cultural conceptions of family in European societies

Lück

Castrén

2018

European Societies

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Family lives in Europe have undergone considerable changes during the past decades. These changes have made it difficult or even impossible to grasp what people mean by 'a family' in their everyday life by an objective, predefined set of criteria. Marriage, a couple relationship, parent-child relationships based on shared bio-genetic substance, a shared household or functions such as reproduction or primary socialisation remain important characteristics of some of the most frequent family forms. However, against the background of an increasing destandardisation of family trajectories, growing importance of family ties across households, complex stepfamily constellations, advanced reproductive technology and negotiated gender relations, they do not hold up as definitions for the family as such.

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“…This is seen as the basis for a feeling of 'ontological security' (Giddens, 1991), which raises the question of how individual life stories are reconciled with family and generational tropes. The creation of a cohesive narrative over multiple generations of a family is one way of linking an authentically cohesive self to an equally authentic, but also different, past (Bottero, 2012;Déchaux, 2002;Kramer, 2011;Lambert, 1996).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Bemoaning the loss of something is a way of expressing feelings of dislocation caused by changes to one's environment (Back, 2009). Belonging through the continuity of a community can be a counterbalance to nostalgia (Blokland, 2001;Déchaux, 2002;Green, 2013) and is also implicated in discourses around authenticity (Dicks, 2008;Jones, 2010). An 'authentic' object or story is the 'original' or 'real' one also embodying continuity over time.…”

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Narrating family histories: Negotiating identity and belonging through tropes of nostalgia and authenticity

Bennett

2015

Current Sociology

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Studying change is at the heart of any investigation into social life, whilst continuity is seen as central to a stable identity over time. Change is an unsettling, but inevitable, part of everyday life; continuity speaks of repetition over time, unity and the comfort of belonging. This paper examines how themes of nostalgia and authenticity are evoked in telling family histories in order to negotiate change and create a continuous story of belonging. Three family histories demonstrate how material objects, places and claims of family resemblances are used to create both authentic identities and authentic selves belonging to the wider community. Where there is a break in the family story and the 'world of restorable reach' is no longer available nostalgia creeps in to replace personal stories with communal ones. Through using both nostalgia, to inform a sense of loss and sometimes a shared past, and authenticity, to create a sense of continuity within an overall arc of change, this paper shows how family histories can work to maintain identities over time, retaining a sense of ontological security and belonging in place.

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Paradoxes of Affiliation in the Contemporary Family

Cited by 11 publications

References 6 publications

Continuity Through Change: Navigating Temporalities Through Heirloom Rejuvenation

Continuity Through Change: Navigating Temporalities Through Heirloom Rejuvenation

Personal understandings and cultural conceptions of family in European societies

Narrating family histories: Negotiating identity and belonging through tropes of nostalgia and authenticity

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