Everyday Life

Coinciding with the massive growth of consumerism after the Second World War, ‘everyday life’ has emerged as a crucial site of scholarly exploration. The critical study of quotidian routines, rules, spaces, and objects has become a central concern for scholars working in cultural studies. Furthermore, everyday life has also engaged the close attention of thinkers—including philosophers, cultural geographers, historians, and sociologists—from a range of other disciplines across the humanities and social sciences. As research in and around everyday life flourishes as never before, this new four-volume collection from Routledge’s acclaimed Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies series meets the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of a rapidly growing and ever more complex corpus of interdisciplinary literature. Edited by a leading scholar, Everyday Life gathers foundational and canonical work, together with innovative and cutting-edge applications and interventions. With a full index, together with a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context, Everyday Life is an essential work of reference. For the novice or advanced student, the collection will be particularly useful as an essential database allowing scattered and often fugitive material to be easily located. And, for the more advanced scholar, it will be welcomed as a crucial tool permitting rapid access to less familiar—and sometimes overlooked—texts. For both, Everyday Life will be valued as a vital one-stop research and pedagogic resource.

Volume I Part 1: Foundational Statements 1. Georg Simmel, ‘Sociological Aesthetics’ [1896], in The Conflict in Modern Culture and Other Essays, trans. K. Peter Etzkorn (Teachers College Press, 1968), pp. 68–80. 2. Boris Arvatov, ‘Everyday Life and the Culture of the Thing (Towards a Formulation of the Question)’ [1925], trans. Christina Kiaer, October, 1997, 81, 119–28. 3. Henri Lefebvre and Norbert Guterman, ‘Mystification: Notes for a Critique of Everyday Life’ [1933], in Henri Lefebvre: Key Writings, eds. Stuart Elden, Elizabeth Lebas, and Elenore Kofman (Continuum, 2003), pp. 71–83. 4. Michel Leiris, ‘The Sacred in Everyday Life’ [1938], in The College of Sociology 1937–39, ed. Denis Hollier, trans. Betsy Wing (University of Minnesota Press, 1988), pp. 24–31. 5. Maurice Blanchot, ‘Everyday Speech’ [1959], trans. Susan Hanson, Yale French Studies, 1987, 73, 12–20. 6. Agnes Heller, ‘The Heterogeneity of Everyday Life’ [1970], Everyday Life, trans. G. L. Campell (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984), pp. 47–59. 7. Michel de Certeau and Luce Giard, ‘A Practical Science of the Singular’, in Michel de Certeau, Luce Giard, and Pierre Mayol, The Practice of Everyday Life, Vol. 2, trans. Timothy J. Tomasik (University of Minnesota Press, 1998), pp. 251–6. 8. Michel Maffesoli, ‘The Sociology of Everyday Life (Epistemological Elements)’, Current Sociology, 1989, 37, 1, 1–16. 9. Wayne Brekhus, ‘A Mundane Manifesto’, Journal of Mundane Behavior, 2000 (online journal). Part 2: Framings and Interventions 10. Lawrence Grossberg, ‘Another Boring Day in Paradise: Rock and Roll and the Empowerment of Everyday Life’, Popular Music, 1984, 4, 225–58. 11. Meaghan Morris, ‘Banality in Cultural Studies’, The Logics of Television: Essays in Cultural Criticism, ed. Patricia Mellencamp (Indiana University Press, 1990), pp. 14–43. 12. John Fiske, ‘Cultural Studies and the Culture of Everyday Life’, in Lawrence Grossberg, Cary Nelson, and Paula Treichler (eds.), Cultural Studies (Routledge, 1992), pp. 154–73. 13. Svetlana Boym, ‘Mythologies of Everyday Life: "Daily Grind" and "Domestic Trash"’, Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia (Harvard University Press, 1994), pp. 29–40, 298–301. 14. Mike Featherstone, ‘The Heroic Life and Everyday Life’, Theory Culture Society, 1995, 9, 159–82. 15. Kristin Ross, ‘Streetwise: The French Invention of Everyday Life’, Parallax, 1996, 2, 1, 67–75. 16. Michael Kelly, ‘The Historical Emergence of Everyday Life’, Sites: The Journal of Contemporary French Studies, 1997, 1, 1, 77–92. 17. Ian Buchanan, ‘The "Everyday" is an "Other"’, Antithesis, 1998, 9, 39–56. 18. Rita Felski, ‘The Invention of Everyday Life’, New Formations, 1999, 39, 15–31. 19. Claire Colebrook, ‘The Politics and Potential of Everyday Life’, New Literary History, 2002, 33, 4, 687–706. 20. Gregory J. Seigworth and Michael E. Gardiner, ‘Rethinking Everyday Life: And Then Nothing Turns Itself Inside Out’, Cultural Studies, 2004, 18, 2–3, 139–53. 21. Adriana Johnson, ‘Everydayness and Subalternity’, South Atlantic Quarterly, 2007, 106, 1, 21–38. Volume II Part 3: Ordinary History 22. Patrice Petro, ‘After Shock/Between Boredom and History’, Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture, 1994, 16, 2, 77–99. 23. Harry Harootunian, ‘Overcome by Modernity: Fantasizing Everyday Life and the Discourse on the Social in Interwar Japan’, Parallax, 1996, 2, 1, 77–88. 24. Ranajit Guha, ‘The Small Voice of History’, Subaltern Studies, 1996, 9, 1–12. 25. Martin Jay, ‘Songs of Experience: Reflections on the Debate over Alltagsgeschichte’, Cultural Semantics: Keywords of Our Time (University of Massachusetts Press, 1998), pp. 37–46. 26. Chris Waters, ‘Representations of Everyday Life: L. S. Lowry and the Landscape of Memory in Postwar Britain’, Representations, 1999, 65, 121–50. 27. Alf Lüdtke, ‘People Working: Everyday Life and German Fascism’, History Workshop Journal, 2000, 50, 75–92. 28. Derek Schilling, ‘Everyday Life and the Challenge to History in Postwar France: Braudel, Lefebvre, Certeau’, Diacritics, 2003, 33, 1, 23–40. 29. Joe Moran, ‘November in Berlin: The End of the Everyday’, History Workshop Journal, 2004, 57, 216–34. 30. Leora Auslander, ‘Regeneration through the Everyday? Clothing, Architecture and Furniture in Revolutionary Paris’, Art History, 2005, 28, 2, 227–47. 31. Nick Hubble, ‘Historical Background’, Mass-Observation and Everyday Life: Culture, History, Theory (Palgrave, 2006), pp. 17–37. Part 4: Media Landscapes 32. Lesley Johnson, ‘Radio and Everyday Life: The Early Years of Broadcasting in Australia, 1922–1945’, Media, Culture & Society, 1981, 3, 167–78. 33. Irving Lewis Allen, ‘Talking about Media Experiences: Everyday Life as Popular Culture’, Journal of Popular Culture, 1982, 16, 3, 106–15. 34. Hermann Bausinger, ‘Media, Technology and Daily Life’, Media, Culture and Society, 1984, 6, 343–51. 35. Robert W. Kubey, ‘Television Use in Everyday Life: Coping with Unstructured Time’, Journal of Communications, 1986, 63, 3, 108–23. 36. Shaun Moores, ‘"The Box on the Dresser": Memories of Early Radio and Everyday Life’, Media Culture Society, 1988, 10, 23, 23–40. 37. Roger Silverstone, ‘Let Us Then Return to the Murmuring of Everyday Practices: A Note on Michel de Certeau, Television and Everyday Life’, Theory, Culture and Society, 1989, 6, 1, 77–94. 38. Joke Hermes, ‘Media, Meaning and Everyday Life’, Cultural Studies, 1993, 7, 3, 493–506. 39. Kirsten Drotner, ‘Ethnographic Enigmas: "The Everyday" in Recent Media Studies’, Cultural Studies, 1994, 8, 2, 341–57. 40. Paddy Scannell, ‘For a Phenomenology of Radio and Television’, Journal of Communication, 1995, 4–19. 41. Anna McCarthy, ‘From Screen to Site: Television’s Material Culture and its Place’, October, 2001, 98, 93–111. 42. Simon Frith, ‘Music and Everyday Life’, Critical Quarterly, 2003, 44, 1, 35–48. 43. Rosalía Winocur, ‘Radio and Everyday Life: Uses and Meanings in the Domestic Sphere’, Television & New Media, 2005, 6, 3, 319–32. Part 5: Art, Architecture, Film 44. Denise Mann, ‘The Spectacularization of Everyday Life: Recycling Hollywood Stars and Fans in Early Television Variety Shows’, Camera Obscura, 1988, 6, 1, 47–77. 45. Olga Matich, ‘Remaking the Bed: Utopia in Daily Life’, in Laboratory of Dreams: The Russian Avant-Garde and Cultural Experiment, eds. John E. Bowlt and Olga Matich (Stanford University Press, 1996), pp. 59–78. 46. Simon Shaw-Miller, ‘"Concerts of Everyday Living": Cage, Fluxus and Barthes, Interdisciplinarity and Inter-Media Events’, Art History, 1996, 19, 1, 1–25. 47. Mary McLeod, ‘Henri Lefebvre’s Critique of Everyday Life: An Introduction’, in Architecture of the Everyday, eds. Steven Harris and Deborah Berke (Princeton Architectural Press, 1997), pp. 9–29. 48. Helen Molesworth, ‘Work Avoidance: The Everyday Life of Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades’, Art Journal, 1998, 57, 4, 51–61. 49. Rey Chow, ‘Sentimental Returns: On the Uses of the Everyday in the Recent Films of Zhang Yimou andWong Kar-Wai’, New Literary History, 2002, 33, 4, 639–54. 50. Barbara Creed, ‘The End of the Everyday: Transformation, Sexuality and the Uncanny’, Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, 2005, 19, 4, 483–94. Volume III Part 6: Space, Time, and Embodiment 51. Judith Friedman Hansen, ‘The Proxemics of Danish Daily Life’, Studies in the Anthropology of Visual Communication, 1976, 3, 1, 52–62. 52. Allan Pred, ‘Social Reproduction and the Time-Geography of Everyday Life’, Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography, 1981, 63, 1, 5–22. 53. Cindi Katz and Andrew Kirby, ‘In the Nature of Things: The Environment and Everyday Life’, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 1991, 16, 3, 259–71. 54. Gary Bridge, ‘Mapping the Terrain of Time—Space Compression: Power Networks in Everyday Life’, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 1997, 15, 5, 611–26. 55. Kevin Paterson and Bill Hughes, ‘Disability Studies and Phenomenology: The Carnal Politics of Eve