Memories of pre- and post-migration consumption: better times or embodiments of a defensive mental state?

Lindridge, Andrew M. (2012). Memories of pre- and post-migration consumption: better times or embodiments of a defensive mental state? In: Association of Consumer Research - Advances in Consumer Research, 4-7 Oct 2012, Vancouver.

Abstract

Previous migration studies tend to draw an implicit line between the place and time of migration (past) and the current place and time (present). Yet this approach fails to address how pre-migration memories emerge and appear in migrants’ daily lives. In particular, research has not addressed: (i) how migrants’ present lives evoke memories of their past, or how consumption may reproduce pre-migration routines and knowledge, and (ii) how consumption is used in recalling past memories into the present, even if this leads to conflict between what is remembered and what is experienced. We explore these questions through migrants’ pre- and post-migration memories, and how they manifest through consumption. In doing so we address research calls to understand how people encode and retrieve memories (Hastie and Dawes 2001) and identity-based consumer memories (Mercurio and Forehand 2011).

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• Item ORO ID
• 35904
• Item Type
• Conference or Workshop Item
• Extra Information
• Paper presented as part of a special session organised by myself. Details are:
  
  Lindridge, A. M. (2012), ‘Stereotypes, memories and nostalgia: contested states of longing, belonging, and being within consumer acculturation’, special session proposal submitted to the Association of Consumer Research conference, Vancouver, 4th – 7th October.
• Keywords
• consumption; acculturation; migrants; memories
• Academic Unit or School
• Faculty of Business and Law (FBL) > Business
  Faculty of Business and Law (FBL)
• Depositing User
• Andrew Lindridge