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dc.contributor.authorJafari, Aliakbar
dc.contributor.authorGoulding, Christina
dc.date.accessioned2008-12-09T12:01:14Z
dc.date.available2008-12-09T12:01:14Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.identifier.citationConsumption Markets & Culture, 11(2): 73-91
dc.identifier.issn10253866
dc.identifier.issn1477223X
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/10253860802033605
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2436/42083
dc.description.abstractThis paper presents an exploratory study of the consumption practices of UK-based young Iranians. Based on a series of in-depth interviews and participatory observation we provide an insight into the identity-constituting meanings associated with consumption practices. We illustrate how individuals use consumption discourses to tackle a series of ideological tensions in their sociocultural settings, both in Iran and in the UK. We describe how in a theocratic state individuals use commodified cultural symbolic mediators to construct and reaffirm a sense of self and identity and also to covertly resist the dominant order. We discuss consumer's paradoxes and dilemmas when confronted with a complex set of clashes between restricting political/institutional dynamics and the emancipatory forces of Western consumption. We conclude by discussing how these contradictions and strategies lead to a form of “torn” self.
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherInformaworld - Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group)
dc.relation.urlhttp://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all?content=10.1080/10253860802033605
dc.subjectState ideology
dc.subjectConsumption practices
dc.subjectConsumers
dc.subjectResistance
dc.subjectSubcultures
dc.subjectIdentity
dc.subjectTorn self
dc.subjectIran
dc.subjectUK
dc.titleWe are not all Terrorists: UK Based Iranians, Consumption Practices and the ‘Torn’ Self.
dc.typeJournal article
dc.identifier.journalConsumption Markets & Culture
html.description.abstractThis paper presents an exploratory study of the consumption practices of UK-based young Iranians. Based on a series of in-depth interviews and participatory observation we provide an insight into the identity-constituting meanings associated with consumption practices. We illustrate how individuals use consumption discourses to tackle a series of ideological tensions in their sociocultural settings, both in Iran and in the UK. We describe how in a theocratic state individuals use commodified cultural symbolic mediators to construct and reaffirm a sense of self and identity and also to covertly resist the dominant order. We discuss consumer's paradoxes and dilemmas when confronted with a complex set of clashes between restricting political/institutional dynamics and the emancipatory forces of Western consumption. We conclude by discussing how these contradictions and strategies lead to a form of “torn” self.


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