Sociology of Everyday Life

The transgressive geographies of everyday life

by Psychogeography from 'Transgressions'

by Alastair Bonnett , 'Transgressions: A Journal of Urban Exploration', 1996, number 2/3

'Psychogeography from 'Transgressions'' brings you classic pieces from the early days of the psychogeography revival

Review - John Holloway, Crack Capitalism (London, 2010)

by Uday Chandra

Life off the Grid: An ethnographer and videographer meet the people whose homes produce all the energy they need

by Phillip Vannini

Co-authored with Jonathan Taggart, published in Canadian Geographic, June 2012

Reanimating anarchist geographies: a new burst of colour

by Simon Springer

Springer S, Ince A, Pickerill J, Brown G, and Barker A. Forthcoming. Reanimating anarchist geographies: a new burst of colour. Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography.

The late 19th century saw a burgeoning of geographical writings from influential anarchist thinkers like Peter... more The late 19th century saw a burgeoning of geographical writings from influential anarchist thinkers like Peter Kropotkin and Élisée Reclus. Yet despite the vigorous intellectual debate sparked by the works of these two individuals, following their deaths anarchist ideas within geography faded. It was not until the 1970s that anarchism was once again given serious consideration by academic geographers who, in laying the groundwork for what is today known as ‘radical geography’, attempted to reintroduce anarchism as a legitimate political philosophy. Unfortunately, quiet followed once more, and although numerous contemporary radical geographers employ a sense of theory and practice that shares many affinities with anarchism, direct engagement with anarchist ideas among academic geographers have been limited. As contemporary global challenges push anarchist theory and practice back into widespread currency, geographers need to rise to this occasion and begin (re)mapping the possibilities of what anarchist perspectives might yet contribute to the discipline.

Off-grid Mobilities: Incorporating a Way of Life

by Phillip Vannini

Published in Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies

Drawing from sensory ethnography, the present multimodal writing—accompanied by photography and digital... more Drawing from sensory ethnography, the present multimodal writing—accompanied by photography and digital video—documents and interprets the mobilities of off-grid living on Lasqueti Island, British Columbia, Canada. The data presentation focuses in particular on the embodied experience of off-grid inhabitation, highlighting the sensory and kinetic experiences and practices of everyday life in a community disconnected from the North American electrical grid and highway network. The mobilities of fuel and energy are presented in unison with ethnographic attention to the taskscape of everyday activities and movements in which off-grid islanders routinely engage. The analysis, based on Tim Ingold's non-representational theory on place, movement, and inhabitation, focuses on how the material and corporeal mobilities of off-grid life body forth a unique sense of place.

There grows the neighbourhood’: Green citizenship, creativity and life politics on eco-TV

by Tania Lewis

Published in International Journal of Cultural Studies May 2012 vol. 15 no. 3

O homem nas teias da comunicação midiática: uma análise de O Show de Truman

by Vander Casaqui

This article’s object is constituted by the film The Truman Show (1998), directed by Peter Weir and starring Jim... more This article’s object is constituted by the film The Truman Show (1998), directed by Peter Weir and starring Jim Carrey. This text analyzes the cinematographic representation to discuss relative questions to the communication, the media and the consumption. Based on authors as Mikhail Bakhtin, Guy Debord, Michel de Certeau and Wolfgang Fritz Haug, the author develops a reflection about the relation between the man and the media, the language as mediation, the society of the spectacle and the everyday life.

Leg som stemningspraksis

by Helle Karoff

Med afsæt i et empirisk studie af børns leg og hverdagsliv og med det socialanalytiske perspektiv som teoretisk ramme... more Med afsæt i et empirisk studie af børns leg og hverdagsliv og med det socialanalytiske perspektiv som teoretisk ramme søger afhandlingen at komme med svar på spørgsmålet: Hvad er leg?

Cultural Politics of Climate Change: Interactions in Everyday Spaces

by Michael Goodman

The Everyday Violence of Urban Neoliberalism: An Interview with Nik Theodore

by David Hugill

Monthly Review Zine, with Peter Brogan, published online 05/04/2011

The Environmental Goffman: Toward an Environmental Sociology of Everyday Life

by Brad Brewster

Co-authored with Michael Mayerfeld Bell. Published in Society & Natural Resources 2010.

While environmental sociology has imported many macro theorists from the larger discipline, it has almost completely... more While environmental sociology has imported many macro theorists from the larger discipline, it has almost completely ignored Goffman. The primary project of this article is to fill that gap by proposing and initiating a Goffmaneque environmental sociology of everyday life, primarily through Goffman’s 1974 work, Frame Analysis. In doing so we address two issues central to environmentally relevant everyday experience: (1) the commonplace appreciation of “Nature,” such as that experienced at parks, on hikes, and being outdoors generally, and (2) the commonsensical notions of “nature” and “naturalness” as used in everyday conduct. In the first task, we make a contribution both to Goffman’s frame analytic theory and to environmental sociological theory with our notion of an out-in-nature frame. In the second task, we undertake to identify and formalize for environmental sociology instances implicit in Frame Analysis of how notions of nature mask social interests.

Houses in motion

by Greg Seigworth

Banality for Cultural Studies

by Greg Seigworth

Rethinking Everyday Life: And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out

by Greg Seigworth

Restaurar el Orden del Telecuidado: Prácticas de Reparación y la Relación con los “Monstruos Organizacionales”

by Tomás Sánchez Criado

Pesquisas e Práticas Psicossociais 6(2): 319-337, agosto/dezembro 2011 [ISSN: 1809 - 8908]

El cuidado de las personas mayores ha cambiado enormemente en las sociedades postindustriales, como así atestigua el... more El cuidado de las personas mayores ha cambiado enormemente en las sociedades postindustriales, como así atestigua el creciente uso de tecnologías de la información para ello. De cara a observar qué manera de cuidar implican estas nuevas configuraciones, en este texto me acercaré etnográficamente a las prácticas de reparación que llevan a cabo los técnicos de un servicio de teleasistencia para personas mayores en Madrid (España). Siguiendo las recomendaciones de la “sociología de la desviación” y la “sociología de la reparación y el mantenimiento”, el interés de observar los modos en los que en estos servicios se lidia con diferentes “monstruos organizacionales” (aquellas configuraciones extrañas para los servicios) nos permitiría tener una definición práctica de cuáles son los órdenes que promueven de facto. El análisis del caso me permitirá detallar el importante trabajo de los técnicos como una constante “restauración” (por emplear un término usado recientemente por Latour) de un particular “arreglo del cuidado”, que definiré a partir de sus prácticas.

Socjologia codzienności i socjologia na co dzień

by Piotr Puldzian Płucienniczak

[Sociology of everyday life and sociology for every day]
Published in "Światy i konteksty społeczne", G. Bryda (ed.), Kraków 2011.

Everyday practices of international relations: people in organizations

by Xavier Guillaume

Co-authored with Oliver Kessler
Published in the 'Journal of International Relations and Development', 2012

Prosaica: introducción a la estético de lo cotidiano

by Katya Mandoki

Chinese Immigration to Western Manitoba Since 1884: Wah Hep, George Chong, the KMT, and the United Church

by Alison Marshall

Journal of Canadian Studies. 42:3 Fall 2008: 28-54.

Hot, banal and everyday nationalism: Bilingual road signs in Wales

by Peter Merriman

Co-authored with Rhys Jones, this article was published in the journal "Political Geography" in 2009, volume 28(3), pp.164-173.