The Everyday Life Reader
Title | The Everyday Life Reader PDF eBook |
Author | Ben Highmore |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 396 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780415230247 |
Using primary materials, Highmor brings together a wide range of thinkers to provide a comprehensive resource on theories of everyday life. Highmore's introduction surveys the development of thought about everyday life.
Reading the Everyday
Title | Reading the Everyday PDF eBook |
Author | Joe Moran |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 225 |
Release | 2005-11-16 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1134372167 |
Studying the work of important continental theorists, Joe Moran explores the concrete sites and routines of everyday life and how they are represented through political discourse, news media, material culture, photography, reality TV and more.
Ordinary Lives
Title | Ordinary Lives PDF eBook |
Author | Ben Highmore |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 461 |
Release | 2010-09-13 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1136905235 |
This new study from Ben Highmore looks at the seemingly banal world of objects, work, daily media, and food, and finds there a scintillating array of passionate experience. Through a series of case studies, and building on his previous work on the everyday, Highmore examines our relationship to familiar objects (a favourite chair), repetitive work (housework, typing), media (distracted television viewing and radio listening) and food (specifically the food of multicultural Britain). A chair allows him to consider the history of flat-pack furniture as well as the lively presence of inorganic ‘stuff’ in our daily lives. Distracted television watching and radio listening becomes one of the preconditions for experiencing wonder through the media. Ordinary Lives links the concrete study of routine existence to theoretical reflection on everyday life. The book discusses philosophers such as Jacques Rancière, William James and David Hume and combines them with autobiographical testimonies, historical research and the analysis of popular culture to investigate the minutiae of day-to-day life. Highmore argues that aesthetic experience is embedded in the mundane sensory world of everyday life. He asks the reader to reconsider the negative associations of habit and routine, focusing specifically on the intrinsic ambiguity of habit (habit, we find out, is both rigid and adaptive). Rather than ask ‘what does everyday life mean?’ this book asks ‘what does everyday life feel like and how do our sensual, emotional and temporal experiences interconnect and intersect?’ Ordinary Lives is an accessible, animated and engaging book that is ideally suited to both students and researchers working in cultural studies, media and communication and sociology.
The Lucado Inspirational Reader
Title | The Lucado Inspirational Reader PDF eBook |
Author | Max Lucado |
Publisher | Thomas Nelson |
Pages | 465 |
Release | 2011-11-20 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0849949653 |
Comfort and the cross. Faith and forgiveness. Salvation and spiritual refreshment. For more than twenty-five years you've trusted Max Lucado to walk with you as you ponder these essential truths. This collection of his very best illustrations, stories, and one-liners guides you through his signature themes and life's most important matters. Spend a few minutes or a couple of hours at the foot of the cross. Take a moment or an afternoon to search the heart of the Savior. Seize a second for a second chance. Return to these words time and again for a dose of hope and encouragement straight from Max's heart to yours.
Everyday Life Through the Ages
Title | Everyday Life Through the Ages PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Worth Davison |
Publisher | |
Pages | 392 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | History |
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What people throughout history ate and wore, how they worked and played, how they built and furnished thir homes, and how they treated their illnesses provide the focus of the book while the great battles, the major inventions, and the rise and fall of empires serve as backdrop.
The Practice of Everyday Life
Title | The Practice of Everyday Life PDF eBook |
Author | Michel de Certeau |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 0520271459 |
Michel de Certeau considers the uses to which social representation and modes of social behavior are put by individuals and groups, describing the tactics available to the common man for reclaiming his own autonomy from the all-pervasive forces of commerce, politics, and culture. In exploring the public meaning of ingeniously defended private meanings, de Certeau draws on an immense theoretical literature in analytic philosophy, linguistics, sociology, semiology, and anthropology--to speak of an apposite use of imaginative literature.
Space, Difference, Everyday Life
Title | Space, Difference, Everyday Life PDF eBook |
Author | Kanishka Goonewardena |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 2008-02-19 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 1135918635 |
This book merges two schools of thought - one that is political economic, and the other more culturally oriented - into a unified Lefebvrian approach to contemporary urban issues and the nature of our spatialized social structures.