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Situating Everyday Life
Practices and Places
- Sarah Pink - Monash University, Australia
April 2012 | 176 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
The study of everyday life is fundamental to our understanding of modern society.
This agenda-setting book provides a coherent, interdisciplinary way to engage with everyday activities and environments. Arguing for an innovative, ethnographic approach, it uses detailed examples, based in real world and digital research, to bring its theories to life.
The book focuses on the sensory, embodied, mobile and mediated elements of practice and place as a route to understanding wider issues. By doing so, it convincingly outlines a robust theoretical and methodological approach to understanding contemporary everyday life and activism.
A fresh, timely book, this is an excellent resource for students and researchers of everyday life, activism and sustainability across the social sciences.
This agenda-setting book provides a coherent, interdisciplinary way to engage with everyday activities and environments. Arguing for an innovative, ethnographic approach, it uses detailed examples, based in real world and digital research, to bring its theories to life.
The book focuses on the sensory, embodied, mobile and mediated elements of practice and place as a route to understanding wider issues. By doing so, it convincingly outlines a robust theoretical and methodological approach to understanding contemporary everyday life and activism.
A fresh, timely book, this is an excellent resource for students and researchers of everyday life, activism and sustainability across the social sciences.
Introduction: (Re)Thinking about Everyday Life and Activism
Theorizing the Familiar: Practices and Places
Researching Practices, Places and Representations: Methodologies and Methods
Beyond Doing the Dishes: Putting Kitchen Practices in Place
Making the Sensory Home: Laundry Routes and Energy Flows
Tracing Neighbourhood Flows: Making a Garden Place
(Re)Making Towns: Sustainable Activist Places, Practices and Representations
The Digital Places of Everyday Life: Thinking about Activism and the Internet
Conclusions: Sustainable Places, Activist Practices and Everyday Life
a great supplementary text to help my students think more broadly around the activities of everyday life.
School of Health Care Professions, Salford University
April 30, 2013
A strong addition to the literature exploring everyday life - it will be very useful to students.
Politics and Sociology, Nottingham Trent University
November 6, 2012
Interesting approach, but a bit too specific for all students
Instituut voor Ecologische Pedagogiek, Hogeschool Utrecht
September 13, 2012
