The Discomfort of Things! Tidying-up and Decluttering in Consumers’ Homes
研究消费者在家中与物质无序作斗争的现象，通过民族志调查区分了两种相互依赖的无序形式（杂乱和拥挤），并探讨了消费者与物品之间的能动性斗争。
Abstract Most relatively affluent consumers are fighting a losing battle with material disorder in their homes. No matter how hard they try to rein it in, material disorder always comes out on top. We argue that part of the continued obduracy of material disorder is because of its messy understanding. We clarify material disorder’s muddled conceptual boundaries by theorizing from an ethnographic investigation of consumers who recently dealt with material disorder through decluttering their homes. Leveraging twin analytical lenses that we label the possessive materialist and post-materialist lenses, we surface two distinct yet inter-dependent forms of disorder (disorder-as-untidiness and disorder-as-clutteredness) that together plague consumers’ homes. We contribute a pluralized understanding of material disorder, that is, disorders not disorder. We also offer novel insight into agentic struggles between consumers and home possessions over material dis/orders.