Recent years have witnessed a burgeoning interest in the study of everyday life within the social sciences and humanities. In Critiques of Everyday Life Michael Gardiner proposes that there exists a counter-tradition within everyday life theorising. This counter-tradition has sought not merely to describe lived experience, but to transform it by elevating our understanding of the everyday to the status of a critical knowledge. In his analysis Gardiner engages with the work of a number of significant theorists and approaches that have been marginalized by mainstream academe, including: the...
Recent years have witnessed a burgeoning interest in the study of everyday life within the social sciences and humanities. In Critiques of Everyday Li...
Recent years have witnessed a burgeoning interest in the study of everyday life within the social sciences and humanities. In Critiques of Everyday Life Michael Gardiner proposes that there exists a counter-tradition within everyday life theorising. This counter-tradition has sought not merely to describe lived experience, but to transform it by elevating our understanding of the everyday to the status of a critical knowledge. In his analysis Gardiner engages with the work of a number of significant theorists and approaches that have been marginalized by mainstream academe,...
Recent years have witnessed a burgeoning interest in the study of everyday life within the social sciences and humanities. In Critiques of Everyda...
This text considers Bakhtin as a social theorist, discussing him as a major intellectual figure and relating his ideas to theoretical trends and developments. The book is organized around the four main themes of Bakhtin's work: dialogics, carnivals, conversations and ethics and everyday life.
This text considers Bakhtin as a social theorist, discussing him as a major intellectual figure and relating his ideas to theoretical trends and devel...
This study attempts to challenge the literary appropriation of Bakhtin's ideas by exploring his (and his circle's) insights on the terrain of critical social and cultural theory, encompassing a broad range of interpretive, methodological and epistemological concerns that centre on the theory and critique of ideology. Chapters one and two serve to introduce Bakhtin's core concepts (diaologism, polyphony, carnival) through the auspices of a synoptic and exegitical examination of the Bakhtin circle's major writings. In the second part of the book, the focus is narrowed considerably. Chapter...
This study attempts to challenge the literary appropriation of Bakhtin's ideas by exploring his (and his circle's) insights on the terrain of critical...
