Consuming work/productive leisure

The consumption patterns of second home environments

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ID11436070
AutoresDavina Chaplin (autor correspondente)
Ano1999
Volume18
Fascículo1
Páginas41-55
Data de publicação1999-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLeisure Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0261-4367 • E-ISSN: 1466-4496
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/026143699375041
OpenAlexW1987396443
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas32
Referências citadas18

This paper, based on a research project on British second home owners in rural France, uses empirical evidence derived from ethnographic interviews to investigate and analyse the escapism opportunities afforded by the purchase and consumption of a second home in a foreign environment. Escape is the main theme, from pressure of work, everyday routine, from commodification, to a space which is a bolt-hole, a retreat or a genuine break from paramount reality. The actions and activities through which the escape is attempted or effected are examined, leading to some insights into the home-holiday as well as the production-consumption relationship. It seems that the French second home experience provides an example of an alternative to the routines and constraints of the world of work on the one hand and from commodified tourism products on the other. In committing to the project, which mingles production and consumption, owners believe they are achieving a balance which is missing from their lives in Britain, through the mechanism of having a recurrent escape route to a way of life which offers them a degree of permanence. The French house project is also an identity project, in which reflexivity plays an important role. The practice, for those who succeed at it, ultimately can be seen as a form of social and spatial delinquency, breaking through the boundaries of a commodified existence to the lived space of another life

Aesthetics · Commodification · Consumption (sociology · Economics · Economy · Escapism · Ethnography · Everyday life · Identity (music · Political science · Reflexivity · Social science · Sociology · Tourism · Work (physics · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research · Law · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies · Psychology · Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management · Social Psychology

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