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A conversational approach to consumer vulnerability: performativity,representations, and storytelling
Authors:Luca M Visconti
Institution:1. Marketing, ESCP Europe, Paris, Francelvisconti@escpeurope.eu
Abstract:ABSTRACT

This conceptual article provides a conversational analysis of consumer vulnerability, which unveils how vulnerability is made through conversations and interactions among actors holding different market power positions. Three types of conversations prove fruitful to pursue a transformative research agenda improving vulnerable consumers’ well-being: (1) performativity, which unpacks agency and finalism in conversations; (2) social representations, which reveal uneven power positions and normativity expressed by participants in a conversation; and (3) storytelling, which reveals alternative and more powerful persuasive mechanisms of conversations framed as stories. Illustration for these types of conversations comes from extensive review of the literature on consumer vulnerability and from a critical consideration of my life-as-researcher with consumers as varied as gays, homeless people, migrants, second-generation immigrants, and subcultures of consumption.
Keywords:Consumer vulnerability  coping strategies  performativity  social representation  storytelling  well-being
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