The Secret World of Doing Nothing

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-520-26261-4
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 530 g

In this insightful and pathbreaking reflection on “doing nothing,” Billy Ehn and Orvar Löfgren take us on a fascinating tour of what is happening when, to all appearances, absolutely nothing is happening. Sifting through a wide range of examples drawn from literature, published ethnographies, and firsthand research, they probe the unobserved moments in our daily lives—waiting for a bus, daydreaming by the window, performing a routine task—and illuminate these “empty” times as full of significance. Creative, insightful, and profound, The Secret World of Doing Nothing leads us to rethink the ordinary and find meaning in today’s hypermodern reality.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ehn, Billy

Löfgren, Orvar

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. Waiting

Chapter 2. Routines

Chapter 3. Daydreaming

Chapter 4. In the Backyards of Modernity?

Appendix: Doing an Ethnography of “Non-events”

Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Billy Ehn is a Professor in the Department of Culture and Media Studies at Umea University and Orvar Löfgren is Professor of Ethnology at the University of Lund, both in Sweden. Löfgren is the author of On Holiday: A History of Vacationing (UC Press).