dc.contributor.advisor | Ger, Güliz | |
dc.contributor.author | Türe, Meltem | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-01-08T20:06:23Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-01-08T20:06:23Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11693/17089 | |
dc.description | Ankara : The Department of Management, İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent Univ., 2013. | en_US |
dc.description | Thesis (Ph. D.) -- Bilkent University, 2013. | en_US |
dc.description | Includes bibliographical refences. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | Recently, disposing has attracted lots of research attention. While some
researchers frame disposing as a practice of ordering, identity management, and
psychological relief, others associate it with overconsumption, waste of usable
resources, and environmental hazard. Although disposing is related to such
seemingly conflicting meanings and consumption practices, consumer researchers
mostly bypass the broader structures, grand practices, and ideological and
discursive meaning systems underlying disposing practices. Using ethnographic
methods, this study explores disposing as a mundane practice, embedded in
contexts with socio-cultural, economic, historical, and political dimensions. The
research aims to reveal when and how consumers practice disposing by
highlighting the normative and ideological structures that help constructing these
practices. It also aims to shed light on how disposing might relate to other
consumption practices.
The results depict disposing as embedded in four meta-practices at the
intersection of various tensions and ideologies feeding these. Steeped in these
grand discourses of consumption, disposing helps moralizing consumption and
allows consumers to experience morality without standing against consumerism or
adopting new lifestyles. Rather than just facilitating consumer resistance, disposing
also helps consumers to compromise with the market. The results complicate the
linear framing of consuming as acquiring-using-disposing by highlighting how
disposing reflects on the object’s consumption and is constructive of its value. The
study also reveals new practices through which consumers negotiate disposing and
highlight a new dimension of object attachment. The results have important
implications for the disposition, moral consumption, and value research. | en_US |
dc.description.statementofresponsibility | Türe, Meltem | en_US |
dc.format.extent | xi, 276 leaves | en_US |
dc.language.iso | English | en_US |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en_US |
dc.subject | Disposing | en_US |
dc.subject | Moral Consumption | en_US |
dc.subject | Value | en_US |
dc.subject | Object Attachment | en_US |
dc.subject.lcc | HC79.C6 T87 2013 | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Consumer behavior. | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Consumption (Economics)--Moral and ethical aspects. | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Nature--Effect of human beings on. | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Materialism--Psychological aspects. | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Object relations (Psychoanalysis) | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Object Attachment. | en_US |
dc.title | Negotiating the norms of consumption : an exploration of ordinary practices of disposing | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.department | Department of Management | en_US |
dc.publisher | Bilkent University | en_US |
dc.description.degree | Ph.D. | en_US |