Abstract
Adopting a narrative inquiry approach, we examine the consumer lives of ex-offenders to identify the disruptive and unequal contexts of vulnerability participants encounter in the marketplace post release. Identifying new forms of consumer restriction experienced by ex-offenders, we interrogate the notion of disruption, as a new theoretical metaphor within the insecure context of consumer vulnerability and analyse the interplay between participants’ life circumstances and the marketplace to identify experienced inequalities and micro-aggressions. Through active community engagement with local and national charities working on ex-offender rehabilitation, this study offers a new theorisation of how disruption in vulnerable marketplace contexts is operationalised and experienced. It makes a further contribution to the nascent literature on prisoner/ex-prisoner experiences of severe consumer constraint, consumption inadequacy and impoverishment.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Academy of Marketing Conference Proceedings |
| Volume | 52 |
| Publication status | Published - 2019 |
| Event | 52nd Annual Academy of Marketing Conference - Duration: 1 Jan 2019 → … |
Other
| Other | 52nd Annual Academy of Marketing Conference |
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| Period | 1/01/19 → … |