The Everyday

Experiences, Concepts, and Narratives
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4438-4767-4
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 275 Seiten

The Everyday: Experiences, Concepts and Narratives is an inter-disciplinary book problematizing the slippery notion of ‘Everyday Life’. Contributing to a tradition of 20th century scholarly work focusing on ‘Everyday Life’, this book specifically attends to the multiple ways that the quotidian aspects of our day-to-day existence become knotted into situated narratives and concepts. In their depth and breadth, the chapters compiled here all work with an understanding of everyday life that is irreducible to any one academic tradition or school of thought, and thus put forward interpretive approaches that require a specificity and attention to a diversity of knowledge archives.

With contributions from the fields of art history, cultural studies, critical theory, anthropology, eco-criticism and cultural history, The Everyday: Experiences, Concepts and Narratives provides a unique space for critical dialogue questioning and exploring the way that everyday life intersects with – and informs – various debates in the humanities and social sciences as well as specific cultural narratives.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Derry, Justin

Parrot, Martin

Über Autor(innen)

Martin Parrot is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Humanities at York University. His research focuses on the cultural history of everyday life as well as the study of subjectivity, culture and epistemology in mid to late 20th century French history and philosophy. His dissertation is on everyday life in 20th century Québécois culture with a particular focus on spatiality, cinema and politics. He is currently producing and scripting a documentary film on the social life of micro-breweries in Québec.

Justin Derry is a PhD candidate in the Department of Humanities at York University. His current research interests include the Ecological Humanities, ecological realism and materialism, as well as disease and illness.