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Situating everyday life : practices and places

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  • Author: Pink, Sarah
    Date:
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    2014
    Summary:

    The study of everyday life is fundamental to our understanding of modern society. This 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. Sarah Pink focuses on the sensory, embodied, mobile, and mediated elements of practice and place as a route to understanding wider issues. By doing so, she convincingly outlines a robust theoretical and methodological approach to understanding contemporary everyday life and activism.

    Contents:
    • ch. 1 Introduction: (Re)Thinking about Everyday Life and Activis
    • ch. 2 Theorising the Familiar: Practices and Places
    • ch. 3 Researching Practices, Places and Representations: Methodologies and Methods
    • ch. 4 Beyond Doing the Dishes: Putting Kitchen Practices in Place
    • ch. 5 Making the Sensory Home: Laundry Routes and Energy Flows
    • ch. 6 Tracing Neighbourhood Flows: Making a Garden Place
    • ch. 7 (Re)Making Towns: Sustainable Activist Places, Practices and Representations
    • ch. 8 Digital Places of Everyday Life: Thinking About Activism and the Internet
    • ch. 9 Conclusions: Sustainable Places, Activist Practices and Everyday Life.
    Genre:
    Social science
    Subject(s): Twentieth century | Applied anthropology | Citizen participation | Civilization, Modern | Environmental protection | Home economics | Sociology | Human behavior
    Original Publisher: Los Angeles : Sage Publications, 2012
    Language(s): English