Consumer culture poetry: insightful data and methodological approaches. Issue 3 (4th May 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Tonner, Andrea
• Is Part Of: Consumption, markets & culture. Volume 22:Issue 3(2019)
• Page Start: 256
• Page End: 271
• Publication Date: 2019-05-04
• Subjects: Poetry -- Sherry and Schouten -- hidden consumption -- mundane consumption -- consumer resistance -- literary criticism -- textual analysis; Consumption (Economics) -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; Consumers -- Attitudes -- Periodicals; Marketing -- Social aspects -- Periodicals; 306.305
• DOI: 10.1080/10253866.2018.1474110
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1025-3866

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This article makes a case for greater inclusion of poetry as distinctive data within interpretive consumer research. It considers that alternative means of representation provide insight into difficult to access consumption fields. The poetic voice allows the emergence of an emic language of experience as the subject engages in self-reflexivity expressed in ways unconstrained by typical research norms. The article also considers some of the methodological choices inherent in engaging with poetic data and illustrates the research value by considering poems that unpack hidden and mundane consumption and consumer resistance. It shows how intimate experiences can be accessed and interrogated using poetic analysis, how poetry can capture the minutia of mundane consumption while laying bare the poet's reflexivity about its meaning, and how the reclamation of a dead art-form can become an active form of rejection and consumer resistance.