Restoring balance: how consumers orchestrate family care following unplanned disruptions

Abstract

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The dynamics of teleoaffective configuration in practice adaptation

“…Second, our theorisation extends existing understandings of how meanings shape adaptation outcomes and experiences. Extant studies suggest meanings can often be obstacles to adaptation (Gonzalez-Arcos et al, 2021; Epp et al, 2014; Venugopal et al, 2019) yet also point to the possibility of their realignment (Cardoso et al, 2020; Phipps and Ozanne, 2017). Our analysis adds depth to these insights, pointing to a continuum of adaptation pathways and outcomes linked to the characteristics of teleoaffective configurations guiding the routinised practice.…”

“…Consumer research is interested in disruption to consumption routines (Campbell et al, 2020; Mason and Pavia, 2006). There has been a particular focus in recent research on disruption from external threats like environmental disaster (Venugopal et al, 2019), poverty (Mguni et al, 2020) and COVID-19 (Menon et al, 2022), as well as life-disrupting events such as becoming a parent (Thomas and Epp, 2019), divorce (Molander, 2017), physical separation in families (Epp et al, 2014), and ill-health (Cordoso et al, 2020). Much of this research uses practice theory, which offers a comprehensive theoretical toolkit through which routinised everyday activity can be understood, and through which analysis of disruption and adaptation can focus on the practical carrying out and carrying on of everyday life (Warde, 2005).…”

“…Gonzales-Arcos et al (2021) found that some practitioners could derive different meanings and positive emotions from the ban on plastic bags, such as looking ‘cute’ carrying cloth bags. Studies identify that meanings can be shifted by practitioners who are motivated to restabilise practices after disruption (Cardoso et al, 2020; Epp et al, 2014; Gonzalez-Arcos et al, 2021; Mason and Pavia, 2006; Phipps and Ozanne, 2017). For example, Thomas and Epp’s (2019) participants respond to disruption ‘by finding ways to make practices work; they problem-solve, trouble-shoot and try to realign elements’ (p. 569).…”

“…For example, Thomas and Epp’s (2019) participants respond to disruption ‘by finding ways to make practices work; they problem-solve, trouble-shoot and try to realign elements’ (p. 569). Other studies find that realigning meanings is done through practitioners’ imaginative capacity (Epp et al, 2014; Gonzales-Arcos et al, 2021), reflexivity (Cordosa et al, 2020), or discursive engagement (Phipps and Ozanne, 2017).…”

Poetizing to improve consumer representation

“…The identity project lens directs our attention toward consumers' attachment to an identity, their failure to reproduce a desired identity, or their willingness to invest into an identity (Shankar et al, 2009: 88, 86, 81). This agentic self-will representation equips researchers to explain successes and failures in relation to an expected outcome or a desired project (Cardoso et al, 2020), rather than to explain the process of identity in creation (Türe and Ger, 2016).…”