Everyday Life and Cultural Theory: An Introduction

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Psychology Press, 2002 - 200 páginas
"Everyday Life and Cultural Theory" provides a unique critical and historical introduction to theories of everyday life. Ben Highmore traces the development of conceptions of everyday life, from the Mass Observation project of the 1930s to contemporary theorists. Individual chapters examine: * Theories of the everyday * Fragments of everyday life * Surrealism: the marvelous in the everyday * Walter Benjamin's Trash Aesthetics * Mass Observation: the science of everyday life * Henri Lefebvre's Dialectics of Everyday Life * Michel de Certeau's Poetics of Everyday Life * Everyday life and the future of cultural studies.
 

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Figuring the everyday
1
Arguments
17
Fragments of everyday life
33
The marvellous in the everyday
45
Benjamins trash aesthetics
60
A science of everyday life
75
Henri Lefebvres dialectics of everyday life
113
Michel de Certeaus poetics of everyday life
145
Everyday life and the future of cultural studies
174
Bibliography
179
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Ben Highmore is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Media Studies at the University of the West of England. He is editor of The Everyday Life Reader (forthcoming, Routledge 2002).

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