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.
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A fresh, timely book from a rising star - this is an excellent resource for students and researchers of everyday life, activism and sustainability across the social sciences. It provides a useful theoretical and methodological framework for understanding everyday practices, and uses real world case-studies to bring it to life.
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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
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Pink provides an engaging study of everyday life analysing it through the prism of activism and focusing on a diversity of environments and practices, from the kitchen sink to the use of internet. By investigating the practices and places implicated in the makings of sustainable everyday living, she successfully links the empirical and theoretical to provide a stimulating read for scholars and students alike. Pink offers a rich interdisciplinary analysis of daily lifeMonica DegenSenior Lecturer, Sociology and Communications, Brunel University
Drawing on and developing recent formulations of practice and place-as-event, and deploying a novel range of multi-sensorial methods, Sarah Pink impressively and insightfully engages the everyday in its concrete, relational and processual complexity. As if this were not enough, she also uniquely rethinks activism and sustainability as they are enacted, experienced and mediated in and through everyday life. It is a rare treat to read a book that so successfully addresses and integrates such a broad array of conceptual, methodological and political issuesMike Michael Professor of Sociology of Science and Technology, Goldsmiths
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780857020574
Publisert
2012-04-20
Utgiver
Vendor
SAGE Publications Ltd
Vekt
280 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
176
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