Everyday Life and Urban Studies Moving With Lefebvre Towards the 21st Century

About the Author

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Acronyms and Abbreviations

Part I Paving the Ground

Chapter 1. Everyday Life and Urban Studies. An Introduction

Part II Studying Space, Understanding the Social

Chapter 2. Research on Cities, Urbanization and Urban Societies

Chapter 3. Urban Studies and the Minutiae of Everyday Life

Chapter 4. Critical Social Perspectives in Spatial Theory 

Part III Revisiting Critiques of Everyday Life throughout the 20th Century

Chapter 5. Dialectics and Rising Fascism: Everyday Life and Philosophy in Crises

Chapter 6. Postwar Geographies of Everyday Life and the Question of Scaling the Lived

Chapter 7. International Critiques of Everyday Life since the 1980s

Part IV Towards Contemporary Critiques of Everyday Life

Chapter 8. The Uncanny Character of Everyday Life

Chapter 9. Everyday Life as a Fetishized Form of Colonization, Consumption and Power

Chapter 10. Feminist Perspectives Beyond Domination and Marginalization

Part V Worlding the Study of Everyday Life in Urban Studies

Chapter 11. Post-colonial Everyday Life: Differences, Commonalities and Temporalities

Chapter 12. Urban Resistance, Street Politics and the Persistence of the Ordinary

Part VI Everyday Life and the Philosophy of Science

Chapter 13. Studying Everyday Life Beyond Spatial Praxis and Social Action

Chapter 14. Urban Studies, Everyday Life and the Philosophy of Science

Part VII The Praxis of Urban Studies

Chapter 15. Urban Field Work: Who Researches How?

Chapter 16. Which Encounters Take Place during Urban Field Research?

Chapter 17. Objects of Urban Research: What to Study?

Chapter 18. Transdisciplinary Paths of Urban Research: How to Study?

Part VIII Towards Transformative Epistemologies: An Everyday-Theory Based Approach to Urban Studies

Chapter 19. Crossovers – Towards Transformative Epistemologies of the Everyday

Chapter 20. An Everyday-Theory Based Approach to Urban Studies

Biography

Sabine Knierbein is an Associate Professor and the Head of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space at the Faculty of Architecture and Planning at Technische Universität Wien in Austria. She holds a Venia in urban studies and a Journey(wo)man’s certificate as a landscape gardener. Sabine has worked as Visiting Professor for Urban Political Geography at the University of Florence.

"This exceptional book tackles the everyday from new and challenging perspectives interweaving theories from across the social sciences, humanities and spatial arts. Drawing insights and knowledges from each of these fields, which are also embedded in a rich historical exploration, this book successfully shifts the study of the everyday from a more micro scale to a large canvas posing important questions of relevance to the contemporary unsettled world."

Sophie Watson, Professor, Sociology Department, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK

"This is a novel critical analysis of Lefebvre interpretations that brings together two perspectives that are usually treated in separate fields of study: the analysis of everyday life and of the production of space. It thus allows us to develop a new understanding of the social world."

Christian Schmid, Professor of Sociology, Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

"It is more than half a century since Lefebvre published the Critique of Everyday Life, but his ideas continue to be a rich source of inspiration for scholars seeking to understand the city by delving into competing practices in and of everyday life. This book is the latest and perhaps most ambitious of such scholarship. By combining empirical materials, methodological innovations, and theoretical groundings, the book provides new insights into the multiple ways in which everyday life shape our urban conditions."

Simin Davoudi, Professor, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, UK