%0 Journal Article
%T An order of distinction (or, how to tell a collection from a hoard)
%A Katie Kilroy-Marac
%J Journal of Material Culture
%@ 1460-3586
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1359183517729428
%X What is the difference between a collection and a hoard? This article draws upon an array of sources ¨C from the DSM-V and current psychiatric research on hoarding, to recent media stories and artist Song Dong¡¯s Waste Not (2009), to the author¡¯s own participant observation with the Toronto Hoarding Coalition and the 21 ethnographic interviews she conducted with professional home organizers in the Greater Toronto Area between 2014 and 2015 ¨C to examine how popular and psychiatric discourses that distinguish collecting and hoarding reveal a complex set of rules about what constitutes the healthy and moral ordering, organization and arrangement of one¡¯s material possessions in contemporary life. In an age of seemingly limitless possibilities for accumulation, the author argues that it is not just the fact of having things that stands as a matter of distinction. One must also demonstrate an active engagement in practices related to the curation and management of one¡¯s object world
%K collecting
%K hoarding
%K order/disorder
%K professional organizers
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1359183517729428