Maurice Patterson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3600543 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maurice Patterson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maurice |
| FAMILY NAME | Patterson |
| SIGNATURE | PATTERSON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Limerick |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3351-7968 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Consonant and dissonant sonic ecologies: Navigating affective atmospheres on Bourbon Street, New Orleans
"Liminal consumption of "the cosmic ballet: An Autoethnography
This study explores the consumption of dance during the identity transition of a homosexual man as a means of appreciating the role of dance in identity management. The account explicates how consumption of a transcendental and paradoxical form of dance called Tandava, or "the cosmic ballet," empowers an individual to deal with his homosexual identity issues at key liminal junctures. Specifically, the study explores how the homosexual body mobili…
Road bowling in Ireland: Social Space and the Context of Context
Consumer research has offered a multitude of understandings of space. While these insights have contributed both to absolute and relativistic appreciations, the discourse has tended more often towards absolute representations. Through an examination of Irish road bowling, built from a four-year ethnography, we position Henri Lefebvre’s triadic model of social space as a heuristic device that may be used to further relativistic representations of …
Tattoo: Marketplace Icon
The tattoo may be considered iconic in terms of its ability to reflect and contribute to consumer culture. It encapsulates contemporary tensions between the paradigm of plasticity that has engulfed the body and skin and a disavowal of that paradigm by marking the body in a permanent fashion. Tattoos also manage to articulate discourses of deviance and the mainstream, difference and sameness. Further, the "invariant processual contour" of tattoo r…
Negotiating Masculinities: Advertising and the Inversion of the Male Gaze
This paper seeks to underline the negotiated character of male identities by demonstrating the means by which lifestyle magazine advertising has caused men to gaze upon images of their own bodies and by outlining the implications of this inversion of the male gaze. The paper begins by delineating the unfinished nature of our bodies and their role in identity projects. It then charts the emergence of men's lifestyle magazines in the UK and their p…
Negotiating Masculinities: Advertising and the Inversion of the Male Gaze
This paper seeks to underline the negotiated character of male identities by demonstrating the means by which lifestyle magazine advertising has caused men to gaze upon images of their own bodies and by outlining the implications of this inversion of the male gaze. The paper begins by delineating the unfinished nature of our bodies and their role in identity projects. It then charts the emergence of men's lifestyle magazines in the UK and their p…
Tattoo: Marketplace Icon
The tattoo may be considered iconic in terms of its ability to reflect and contribute to consumer culture. It encapsulates contemporary tensions between the paradigm of plasticity that has engulfed the body and skin and a disavowal of that paradigm by marking the body in a permanent fashion. Tattoos also manage to articulate discourses of deviance and the mainstream, difference and sameness. Further, the "invariant processual contour" of tattoo r…
"Liminal consumption of "the cosmic ballet: An Autoethnography
This study explores the consumption of dance during the identity transition of a homosexual man as a means of appreciating the role of dance in identity management. The account explicates how consumption of a transcendental and paradoxical form of dance called Tandava, or "the cosmic ballet," empowers an individual to deal with his homosexual identity issues at key liminal junctures. Specifically, the study explores how the homosexual body mobili…
Road bowling in Ireland: Social Space and the Context of Context
Consumer research has offered a multitude of understandings of space. While these insights have contributed both to absolute and relativistic appreciations, the discourse has tended more often towards absolute representations. Through an examination of Irish road bowling, built from a four-year ethnography, we position Henri Lefebvre’s triadic model of social space as a heuristic device that may be used to further relativistic representations of …
Consonant and dissonant sonic ecologies: Navigating affective atmospheres on Bourbon Street, New Orleans
Negotiating Masculinities: Advertising and the Inversion of the Male Gaze
This paper seeks to underline the negotiated character of male identities by demonstrating the means by which lifestyle magazine advertising has caused men to gaze upon images of their own bodies and by outlining the implications of this inversion of the male gaze. The paper begins by delineating the unfinished nature of our bodies and their role in identity projects. It then charts the emergence of men's lifestyle magazines in the UK and their p…
Tattoo: Marketplace Icon
The tattoo may be considered iconic in terms of its ability to reflect and contribute to consumer culture. It encapsulates contemporary tensions between the paradigm of plasticity that has engulfed the body and skin and a disavowal of that paradigm by marking the body in a permanent fashion. Tattoos also manage to articulate discourses of deviance and the mainstream, difference and sameness. Further, the "invariant processual contour" of tattoo r…
Road bowling in Ireland: Social Space and the Context of Context
Consumer research has offered a multitude of understandings of space. While these insights have contributed both to absolute and relativistic appreciations, the discourse has tended more often towards absolute representations. Through an examination of Irish road bowling, built from a four-year ethnography, we position Henri Lefebvre’s triadic model of social space as a heuristic device that may be used to further relativistic representations of …
"Liminal consumption of "the cosmic ballet: An Autoethnography
This study explores the consumption of dance during the identity transition of a homosexual man as a means of appreciating the role of dance in identity management. The account explicates how consumption of a transcendental and paradoxical form of dance called Tandava, or "the cosmic ballet," empowers an individual to deal with his homosexual identity issues at key liminal junctures. Specifically, the study explores how the homosexual body mobili…
Consonant and dissonant sonic ecologies: Navigating affective atmospheres on Bourbon Street, New Orleans
Art (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Advertising (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Fashion and Cultural Textiles (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Identity (music (2 works)