Everyday Life and Cultural Theory provides a unique critical and historical introduction to theories of everyday life. Ben Highmore traces the development of conceptions of everyday life, from the cultural sociology of Georg Simmel, through the Mass-Observation project of the 1930s to contemporary theorists such as Michel de Certeau.
Everyday Life and Cultural Theory provides a unique critical and historical introduction to theories of everyday life. Ben Highmore traces th...
The Everyday Life Reader brings together a wide range of thinkers from Freud to Baudrillard with primary sources on everyday life to provide a comprehensive resource on theories of everyday life. Ben Highmore's introduction surveys the development of thought about everyday life, setting theories in their social and historical context, and each themed section opens with an essay introducing the debates. The sections include: situating the everyday; everyday life and national culture; ethnography near and far; reclamation work; and everyday things.
The Everyday Life Reader brings together a wide range of thinkers from Freud to Baudrillard with primary sources on everyday life to provide a compreh...
The Design Culture Reader brings together a rich and diverse selection of texts for the purpose of re-imagining the study of design for the 21st Century.
The Design Culture Reader brings together a rich and diverse selection of texts for the purpose of re-imagining the study of design for the 21st Ce...
Michel de Certeau is becoming increasingly recognised as a cultural theorist whose methodologies could rival those of Foucault. In this engaging book, Ben Highmore provides a stimulating account of Michel de Certeau's work and its relation to the field of cultural studies. The book explores those aspects of de Certeau's work that both challenge and re-imagine cultural studies, highlighting the potential this work has for supplying a critical epistemology and a practical ethics for the study of culture within the arts and humanities more generally. Michel de Certeau: Analysing Culture provides...
Michel de Certeau is becoming increasingly recognised as a cultural theorist whose methodologies could rival those of Foucault. In this engaging book,...
This book provides a methodology for studying the experience and culture of urban modernity. It examines a number of thematic case-studies, demonstrating the potential of an approach to city culture that privileges description and attention to movement. Written for students in an accessible style, the book offers a vivid account of the rhythms of urban modernity as they are articulated in a variety of cultural forms from the nineteenth century novel to the film The Matrix.
This book provides a methodology for studying the experience and culture of urban modernity. It examines a number of thematic case-studies, demonstrat...
Impressively accessible and packed with key theory and concepts, this book is a vivid introduction to cultural studies. Each chapter takes engaging examples from everyday life and uses them to explore core issues, from migration to mass media. This book encourages all students of culture and media to become passionate about cultural studies.
Impressively accessible and packed with key theory and concepts, this book is a vivid introduction to cultural studies. Each chapter takes engaging ex...
Coinciding with the massive growth of consumerism after the Second World War, 'everyday life' has emerged as a crucial site of scholarly exploration. The critical study of quotidian routines, rules, spaces, and objects has become a central concern for scholars working in cultural studies. Furthermore, everyday life has also engaged the close attention of thinkers--including philosophers, cultural geographers, historians, and sociologists--from a range of other disciplines across the humanities and social sciences.
As research in and around everyday life flourishes as never...
Coinciding with the massive growth of consumerism after the Second World War, 'everyday life' has emerged as a crucial site of scholarly exploratio...
What are the qualities and properties that make something cultural? What does claiming something as cultural allow us to do?"
Culture "offers students a workable understanding of the category culture and explores how the realm of the cultural can be practically explored as a way of understanding the world.
Ben Highmore provides a clear and robust defence of the productivity of cultural analysis in a media saturated world, while also instilling a sense of modesty in qualifying what can and can t be accomplished in the name of cultural analysis.
With extensive examples and case...
What are the qualities and properties that make something cultural? What does claiming something as cultural allow us to do?"
What are the qualities and properties that make something cultural? What does claiming something as cultural allow us to do?"
Culture "offers students a workable understanding of the category culture and explores how the realm of the cultural can be practically explored as a way of understanding the world.
Ben Highmore provides a clear and robust defence of the productivity of cultural analysis in a media saturated world, while also instilling a sense of modesty in qualifying what can and can t be accomplished in the name of cultural analysis.
With extensive examples and case...
What are the qualities and properties that make something cultural? What does claiming something as cultural allow us to do?"
