Unschooling motherhood: caring and belonging in mothers’ time-space

Benzon, Nadia von

doi:10.1080/0966369x.2020.1784100

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“…Moreover, compared to questionnaires or interview studies, the online user-generated data, such as blog posts and social media status updates, usually reflect the tourists' current travel experiences more immediately [59][60][61]. Additionally, these blogs provide an attractive virtual arena for parenthood displays because of the "sharenting" boom [57], as parenthood narratives on these self-media platforms have been proven to have a significant impact on parent peers in terms of consuming and parenting decisions [58,62]. Given that family camping blog posts are rapidly increasing and becoming a kind of camping guidebook for potential campsite visitors in Taiwan, we argue that the analyzed results not only contribute to understanding the possible relationship between parenting and nature consumption, but also facilitate the examination of the possible discursive practices of self-media.…”

Section: Methods: Analyzing Family Camping Blogsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Considering the complexity of identity and consumption, this study adopted an inductive approach through thematic analyses of parenthood narratives in family camping blogs [4,31,37,62,64]. Thematic analysis with an inductive nature is a qualitative method of organizing data and deriving concepts by identifying underlying themes [65,66].…”

Section: Methods: Analyzing Family Camping Blogsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the third step, the categorized content was interpreted using a thematic analysis approach composed of a search for emergent themes, with reference to the analysis method of studies regarding parenting blogs [62] and parenthood-consumption [4,37]. During the analysis, we placed special emphasis on the role of the campground space and its surrounding nature in these indirect parenting narratives.…”

Section: Methods: Analyzing Family Camping Blogsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although the family camping blog posts selected in this research are all publicly accessible, we still decided to maintain the anonymity of the bloggers with reference to the data of two parenting/family related blog studies [62,70]. We have listed the bloggers who are the authors of 90 family camping blog posts in Table 1, and kept them non-identifiable through changing their names using alphabetical codes.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Enactment of Ideal Parenthood through Consuming a Multi-Functional Space Named “Nature”—Blogging Family Camping in Taiwan

Chao

Chueh

2022

Sustainability

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Given the evident paucity of parenthood–consumption research on family leisure/tourism, the present study set family camping into the framework of consumption culture research, to explore how nature (space) consumption is related to parenthood displays. Family camping blog posts were chosen as the data source for this study because of the commonality of tourists using self-media (blogs) to record their travels and display their identity these days, and a thematic method with an inductive nature was adopted to do the data analysis in order to dig deeper into the interwoven relationship between parenthood and consumption. The study results indicate that the campground and its natural surroundings are homogeneously consumed as a multi-functional space named “nature”, as well as a symbol of ideal parenthood for the connotations of purity and pristineness associated with nature, which allow camping parents to satisfy their children’s needs and enjoy their own leisure at the same time. However, the highly standardized nature (space) equipped with artificial facilities is obviously contradictory to the sentiment of pristine nature. We argue that manipulating ideology on social media normalizes and reproduces a dominant but controversial discourse of parenthood and nature consumption, which not only stereotypes the means of family leisure in nature but also fosters perceptions about the commoditization and othering of nature. This study makes an empirical contribution to consumption culture and offers an insight into the importance of identity issue in sustainability research.Definition: nurturing children so they develop physically and mentally.

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