Anthropological quarterly, 2011-10, Vol.84 (4), p.919-947
2011
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- Titel
- The Disorder of Things: Hoarding Narratives in Popular Media
- Ist Teil von
- Anthropological quarterly, 2011-10, Vol.84 (4), p.919-947
- Ort / Verlag
- Washington: George Washington University Institute for Ethnographic Research
- Erscheinungsjahr
- 2011
- Quelle
- Project MUSE
- Beschreibungen/Notizen
- In recent years, a rise of mediated popular narratives portrays hoarders as disconnected from normal social life. Hoarders, shown as suffering from both pathological practices of overconsumption and from the inability to complete the normative purchasing cycle of disposal and re-consumption, are commonly linked to discourses of addiction. I analyze how these mediated narratives present hoarders in all the spectacular chaos of their isolation, and then therapeutically renormalize them as managed, rational agents of consumption who may rediscover the social. This paper demonstrates how multiple, transgressive behaviors become unified as a disease through the emergence of a narrative convention.
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Identifikatoren
- ISSN: 0003-5491, 1534-1518eISSN: 1534-1518DOI: 10.1353/anq.2011.0053Titel-ID: cdi_gale_infotracacademiconefile_A274870718
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- Schlagworte
- Addiction, Addictions, Addictive behaviors, Behavior, Capitalism, Commodities, Communications industry, Compulsive hoarding, Consumer psychology, Consumption, Deconstruction, Diseases, Disorders, Economic liberalism, Economic value, Evaluation, Hoarding, Influence, Mass media, Media, Memory, Mental illness, Mothers, Motion picture festivals, Narratives, Neoliberalism, Overconsumption, Pills, Popular culture, Programming (Broadcast), Psychopathology, Purchasing, Rituals, Social aspects, SPECIAL COLLECTION: THE ETHICS OF DISCONNECTION IN A NEOLIBERAL AGE, Suffering, Television, Walsh, Peter