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When things are no longer possessions: does dispossession still take place in a context of collaborative consumption?

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  • Eva Cerio

    (IAE Angers - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises (IAE) - Angers - UA - Université d'Angers, GRANEM - Groupe de Recherche Angevin en Economie et Management - UA - Université d'Angers - Institut Agro Rennes Angers - Institut Agro - Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement)

Abstract

Based on the social life of things theory and a qualitative study conducted among 28 participants, we identify four disposition routes that occur when a consumer wants to give or sell his possessions on second-hand marketplaces (identity-based, mechanical, insecure, and opportunistic), that depends on psychological, material and environmental criteria. We highlight the fact that disposition is now becoming a rationalized and routine process rather than a dispossession one, in which individuals become distributors and opportunists.

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  • Eva Cerio, 2023. "When things are no longer possessions: does dispossession still take place in a context of collaborative consumption?," Post-Print hal-04157079, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04157079
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