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The body as a place: Enacting utopias through tattoo consumption

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Previous research has examined tattooing as a consumption practice that participates in identity construction. However, the way the body is negotiated and experienced as a place in which one is confined has been overlooked. This paper thus theorizes the body as a topia (a place) from which various utopias originate, thus making the body an "other space" (a heterotopia) that it is transformed, magnified and appropriated by tattooing. Using a multi-method qualitative study conducted with tattooees and tattooists, the findings show the tension that articulates "being here" / "being elsewhere" and demonstrate how tattooing is used as a means to escape, deny, transcend or embrace one's human spatialized condition.
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hal-03518122 , version 1 (20-01-2022)

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Dominique Roux, Russell Belk. The body as a place: Enacting utopias through tattoo consumption. 11th Consumer Culture Theory Conference, Jul 2016, Lille, France. ⟨hal-03518122⟩
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