Everyday Life and Urban Studies

Moving With Lefebvre Towards the 21st Century
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-82856-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Everyday Life and Urban Studies revisits the ordinary routines that shape urban life during the crises-ridden last century and early new millennium. Vast parts of Henri Lefebvre’s intellectual work on everyday life however remain underappreciated in urban studies. This book seeks to re-integrate Lefebvre’s Critique of Everyday Life into studies of urbanization. Starting in the 1920s, the book realigns historical insights with contemporary urban phenomena to uncover patterns of capitalist urbanization. By showing the relevance of grasping the minutiae of everyday life to understanding cities, the urban and urbanization today; everyday life, space, and philosophy are brought back in tension. This work combines analytical-methodological exploration, pedagogic mission, and theoretical advances to carve out an everyday-theory-based approach to urban studies situated at the interface of the spatial arts, the humanities, and the social sciences. This book examines the transformative potential that lies hidden in everyday life thereby unravelling a way to nurture hope amid unsettled urban conditions.

The book is essential for students, faculty, and researchers in the fields of urban studies, city planning, urban design, human geography, sociology, cultural studies, and political science.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Knierbein, Sabine

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Wohnen & Obdachlosigkeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Berufspraxis
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Sozialpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Innen-, Bildungs- und Bevölkerungspolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (S. Freud)
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Jahrbücher, Jahresbände und Almanache
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1. Paving the Ground  1. Everyday Life and Urban Studies. An Introduction  Part 2. Studying Space, Understanding the Social  2. Research on Cities, Urbanization and Urban Societies 3. Urban Studies and the Minutiae of Everyday Life 4. Critical Social Perspectives in Spatial Theory  Part 3. Revisiting Critiques of Everyday Life throughout the 20th Century  5. Dialectics and Rising Fascism: Everyday Life and Philosophy in Crises 6. Postwar Geographies of Everyday Life and the Question of Scaling the Lived 7. International Critiques of Everyday Life since the 1980s  Part 4. Towards Contemporary Critiques of Everyday Life  8. The Uncanny Character of Everyday Life 9. Everyday Life as a Fetishized Form of Colonization, Consumption and Power 10. Feminist Perspectives Beyond Domination and Marginalization  Part 5. Worlding the Study of Everyday Life in Urban Studies  11. Post-colonial Everyday Life: Differences, Commonalities and Temporalities 12. Urban Resistance, Street Politics and the Persistence of the Ordinary  Part 6. Everyday Life and the Philosophy of Science  13. Studying Everyday Life Beyond Spatial Praxis and Social Action 14. Urban Studies, Everyday Life and the Philosophy of Science  Part 7. The Praxis of Urban Studies  15. Urban Field Work: Who Researches How? 16. Which Encounters Take Place during Urban Field Research? 17. Objects of Urban Research: What to Study? 18. Transdisciplinary Paths of Urban Research: How to Study?  Part 8. Towards Transformative Epistemologies: An Everyday-Theory Based Approach to Urban Studies  19. Crossovers – Towards Transformative Epistemologies of the Everyday 20. An Everyday-Theory Based Approach to Urban Studies

Über Autor(innen)

Sabine Knierbein is an Associate Professor and the Head of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space at the Faculty of Architecture and Planning at Technische Universität Wien in Austria. She holds a Venia in urban studies and a Journey(wo)man’s certificate as a landscape gardener. Sabine has worked as Visiting Professor for Urban Political Geography at the University of Florence.