The Comfort of Things

By Danny Miller. 2008

668 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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Citations in the corpus

• The Temporal and Focal Dynamics of Volitional Reconsumption: A Phenomenological Investigation of Repeated Hedonic Experiences (2012, unknown): “…the opportunity to review, revisit, and reappreciate something they have already experienced, hence providing a counterpoint to the often pronounced view that modernity is obsessed with novelty and desire (Belk, Ger, and Askegaard 2003; Bruner 1986) and to postmodern fragmentation (Miller 2008).”
• Timelining: visualizing experience (2011, methodology): “Besides photographs, visual researchers have used other material objects such as possessions in homes (Csikszentmihalyi and Rochberg-Halton, 1981; Miller, 2008; Noble, 2004), Lego (Gauntlett, 2007) and paintings and artworks (Bellof, 1997; Irving, 2009; Radley and Bell, 2007; Tamboukou, 2008), to…”
• Routledge Handbook of Cultural Gerontology (2015, background): “Coleman and O’Hanlan (2004) argue that there is a need to re-think our perceptions of the fourth age and the contemporary cultural failure to engage with conditions of physical decline at the end of life.”
• Blaming the consumer – once again: the social and material contexts of everyday food waste practices in some English households (2011, methodology): “I use the term ‘ordinary’ to signal that the streets were chosen because, following Miller (2008), I had no particular reason to chose them other than attempting to encounter everyday lives as they are found without recourse to the categories of social/sociological analysis.”