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Everyday Life
Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies
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....
Published October 25th 2011 by Routledge
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Ordinary Lives
Studies in the Everyday
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...
Published August 19th 2010 by Routledge
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The Design Culture Reader
Design is part of ordinary, everyday life, to be found in every room in every building in the world. While we may tend to think of design in terms of highly desirable objects, this book encourages us to think about design as ubiquitous (from plumbing to television) and as an agent of social change...
Published August 7th 2008 by Routledge
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The Everyday Life Reader
The Everyday Life Reader brings together thinkers ranging from Freud to Baudrillard with primary sources. It thus provides a complete and comprehensive resource on theories of everyday life.Ben Highmore's introduction surveys the development of thought about everyday life, setting theories in their...
Published December 12th 2001 by Routledge
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Everyday Life and Cultural Theory
An Introduction
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...
Published November 7th 2001 by Routledge
