Everyday Life and Cultural Theory: An Introduction

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Routledge, 2002 M08 27 - 208 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 cultural sociology of Georg Simmel, through the Mass-Observation project of the 1930s to contemporary theorists such as Michel de Certeau.

 

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Chapter 1 FIGURING THE EVERYDAY
1
Chapter 2 ARGUMENTS
17
Fragments of everyday life
33
The marvellous in the everyday
45
Chapter 5 BENJAMINS TRASH AESTHETICS
60
A science of everyday life
75
Chapter 7 HENRI LEFEBVRES DIALECTICS OF EVERYDAY LIFE
113
Chapter 8 MICHEL DE CERTEAUS POETICS OF EVERYDAY LIFE
145
Everyday life and the future of cultural studies
174
Bibliography
179
Index
194
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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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