Writing the Everyday

Body, Place, Time
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-22908-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Writing the Everyday: Body, Place, Time concerns the stories we tell of the familiar, the routine, and the mundane. It pays attention to what does and does not happen, what is and is not present, what does and (apparently) does not matter.

Writing the Everyday tells such stories to bring the everyday – a walk to work up a steep Edinburgh hill, writing in a favourite café, laughter, loss, rupture – alive. It tells these stories to explore how the everyday offers glimpses into, lies close to, the profound and the intimate, and it tells these stories to trouble the politics of the everyday. Writing the Everyday is also about writing: it thinks, feels, breathes, aches, with writing, with what writing – ‘everyday inquiring’ – might offer. Writing the Everyday is a listening with the world, a listening in the midst, a listening with the worlding of the moment.

This book appeals to scholars and students in creative writing, cultural studies, psychotherapy, human geography, and qualitative research methodologies. It serves as both theoretical exploration and practical invitation, encouraging readers to attend more carefully to the texture of the everyday and to recognise the significance coursing through the everyday. This book offers valuable insights for those interested in narrative inquiry, autoethnography, creative-relational inquiry, and the intersection of embodiment, place, and temporality in the everyday.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wyatt, Jonathan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Forschungsmethoden
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements  Chapter 1 – An Everyday Beginning  Chapter 2 – Everyday Writing, January 2023: Small Talk  Chapter 3 – Writing, Therapy, and Everyday Inquiry  Chapter 4 – Everyday Writing, February 2023: Reckoning  Chapter 5 – Breaking: An Everyday Body  Chapter 6 – Everyday Writing, March 2023: Place  Chapter 7 – How: Lockdown Everyday (1)  Chapter 8 – Everyday Writing, April 2023, in the Second Person  Chapter 9 – Recognition: Lockdown Everyday (2)  Chapter 10 – Everyday Writing, May 2023: Time  Chapter 11 – Losing Things, or Things that Leave  Chapter 12 – Everyday Writing, June 2023: Writing-with  Chapter 13 – Loss: The Poetics of the Everyday  Chapter 14 – Everyday Writing, November 2023: Playlisting Father and Son  Chapter 15 – An Everyday Ending  References Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jonathan Wyatt is Professor of Qualitative Inquiry and a co-director of the Centre for Creative-Relational Inquiry at the University of Edinburgh. Originally an English teacher and youth worker, he worked for ten years as a counsellor in a doctors’ surgery alongside being Head of Professional Development at the University of Oxford, before heading north to Scotland in 2013.