Situating Everyday Life

Practices and Places
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-85702-057-4
Verlag: Blue Rose Publishers

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 272 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pink, Sarah

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie der Lebensart, Well-Being

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Pink, Sarah
Sarah Pink is Professor of Design and Emerging Technologies, Founding Director of the Emerging Technologies Research Lab at Monash University Australia and Associate Director of Monash Energy Institute. She is International Guest Professor at Halmstad University in Sweden, Adjunct Distinguished Professor at RMIT University Australia, where she was previously Director of the Digital Ethnography Research Centre. She is also Visiting Professor in the Design School and Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies at Loughborough University, where she was formerly Professor of Social Sciences. Sarah is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.

Sarah is a world leader in innovative digital, visual and sensory research and dissemination methodologies, which she engages in interdisciplinary projects with design, engineering and creative practice disciplines to engage with contemporary issues and challenges. She is known globally for her design anthropological research and collaboration across disciplines and with partners inside and outside academia. She has developed and collaborated in visual ethnography research across the world, including in the United Kingdom, Spain, Sweden, Australia, Brazil, Chile and Indonesia.