Life Transition to Terminality: Dynamic Regimes of Representation, Permanent Liminality, and Coping Consumption
Through the lenses of representation theory, this (n)ethnographic research contributes to literature on consumer permanent liminality and coping consumption. Unpacking life and market transition of patients to terminality accounts for how they use representational agency and consumption to counterbalance etic representational regimes, and the tensions arising from their liminal experience.
Citation:
Michele Corengia and Luca M. Visconti (2020) ,"Life Transition to Terminality: Dynamic Regimes of Representation, Permanent Liminality, and Coping Consumption", in NA - Advances in Consumer Research Volume 48, eds. Jennifer Argo, Tina M. Lowrey, and Hope Jensen Schau, Duluth, MN : Association for Consumer Research, Pages: 1237-1237.
Authors
Michele Corengia, Università della Svizzera italiana
Luca M. Visconti, Università della Svizzera italiana
Volume
NA - Advances in Consumer Research Volume 48 | 2020
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