Reading the everyday / Joe Moran.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moran, Joe, 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology, Urban.

Civilization, Modern.

Popular culture.

Physical Description:

xi, 209 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.

Summary:

Everyday life is a growing area of interest in cultural studies and cultural theory. Reading the Everyday provides an illuminating introduction to some of the key debates in this area with detailed readings of the spaces, practices and mythologies of everyday culture.

Drawing on the work of continental theorists such as Henri Lefebvre, Michel de Certeau, Marc Auge and Siegfried Kracauer, Joe Moran explores the concrete sites and routines of everyday life and their representation in political debate, news media, material culture, sitcoms, reality TV shows, photography, CCTV and webcams.

Moran aims to rethink notions of everyday life within cultural studies, which have traditionally focused on questions of popular culture, consumption and lifestyle. He investigates some of the most underexplored, banal aspects of quotidian culture, such as office life, commuting, car parking, motorways, new towns and mass housing.

Reading the Everyday shows that analysing supposedly 'boring' phenomena can help us to make sense of cultural and social change; and it argues that the everyday has become a space for a new kind of 'post-political' politics which has obscured profound changes in work, domestic and public space.

Contents:

Introduction: Waiting, cultural studies, and the quotidian

Workspace : office life and commuting

Urban space : the myths and meanings of traffic

Non-places : supermodernity and the everyday

Living space : housing, the market, and the everyday

Conclusion: The everyday and cultural change.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-196) and index.

ISBN:

0415317088

0415317096

OCLC:

57211184