Cultural phenomenology and the everyday

Clucas, Stephen

doi:10.1111/1467-8705.00270

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“…Adorno (1973, pp. 26f) affirms phenomenology's attention to the “reciprocal constitution of consciousness and objectivity” (Clucas, , p. 15) without its ideological blinders and systematization. For this to be a successful program, Adorno contends, we must place consciousness and practices in social‐structural context.…”

Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 72%

A political‐economic theory of relevance: Explaining climate change inaction

2019

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Why have societies failed to effectively respond to climate change? We address the question of climate change inaction by (1) examining how an unambiguously ominous report about climate change (IPCC 2018) was made palatable by news media and (2) explaining why climate change is typically unthematized in everyday life. Drawing on Adorno and Schutz, we develop a political‐economic theory of relevance. The imperative to accumulate capital is not only a social‐structural reality but also shapes why particular facts are regarded as relevant in experience (topical relevance) as well as how relevant material is interpreted (interpretative relevance) and acted toward (motivational relevance). Applying this framework, we (1) argue that media popularizations of the IPCC's dire Global Warming of 1.5°C (2018) are constituted by relevance systems conditioned by a capitalist social context and (2) strengthen Ollinaho's (2016) Schutzian explanation for climate change inaction by examining how productive relations and the culture industry perpetuate climate change irrelevance in everyday life. Schutz's framework helps conceptualize the intricacies of ideology and, when revised with Adorno's sociology, shines new light on an old question: the relations between social conditions and knowledge.

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confidence: 72%

A political‐economic theory of relevance: Explaining climate change inaction

2019

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“…Although Adorno was critical of phenomenology throughout his career (e.g., Adorno ; see Dallmayr ; Valone ; Wolff ; Gordon ), he aspires to continue phenomenology’s attention to the ‘reciprocal constitution of consciousness and objectivity’ (Clucas , p. 15) without its ideological blinders and systematisation (Adorno , p. 26f), as well as placing consciousness in social‐structural context. We argue Adorno’s programme can contribute to Schutz’s tripartite theory of relevance types.…”

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Farmers’ Perceptions of Climate Change in Context: Toward a Political Economy of Relevance

2019

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Sociologists commonly hypothesise that experiencing the impacts of climate change will lead actors, including farmers, to desire to address climate change. It is increasingly clear that farmers can detect the regional biophysical expressions and impacts of climate change. However, this has not led farmers to desire to take action on climate change. This begs the question: how then are farmers interpreting these experiences? We argue that political‐economic context, the structural conditions of capitalist production, contributes to how farmers perceive and understand the impacts of climate change. We draw from our novel political economy of relevance theoretical framework and apply this framework to a sample of over 100 qualitative interviews with Iowa and Indiana row‐crop farmers. We focus on their experiences with heavy rain events, a key impact of climate change in the Midwest. Our findings suggest that farmers become aware of, interpret and respond to heavy rain events within the context of capitalist production. This leads most farmers to see heavy rain events as barriers to achieving capitalist goals, rather than as signals of the reconsider climate scepticism or the need to mitigate contributions to climate change.

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“…This trajectory of analysis and theorizing habitus and its technocultural dimensions is evoked in what has since been characterized as ‘cultural phenomenology’ (Connor, 2000; Clucas, 2000; Csordas, 1999; Richardson and Third, 2009). Cultural phenomenology has been described as a ‘methodological attitude’ – a critical disposition rather than a formal method – ‘that demands attention to bodiliness’ (Csordas, 1999: 148) and body–technology relations (Richardson, 2012; Richardson and Wilken, 2017), which calls for ‘somatic modes of attention’ that ‘highlight the engagement of sensory modalities’ (Csordas, 1999: 151), including touch.…”

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Techniques of the tactile body: A cultural phenomenology of toddlers and mobile touchscreens

Nansen

Wilken

2018

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Med

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A key dimension of young children's mobile media engagement and play centres on their embodied relations, and how these are shaped with and through the interfaces, materiality and mobility of haptic media. This article explores these embodied dimensions of young children's mobile media use, drawing on research from (1) ethnographic observation of young children's play practices in family homes, (2) analysis of videos of young children's tactile media interaction shared on YouTube and (3) analysis of user interface (UI) and mobile app developer literature, such as the 'Event Handling Guide for iOS', which encodes touchscreen interaction through the design constraints and possibilities of gesture input techniques. Taking as its starting point Marcel Mauss' famous reflection on body techniques, this article draws on past and present research on mobile technologies, tactility and everyday life, to explore what might be involved in developing a 'cultural phenomenology' of mobile touchscreens. This research and analysis reveals the emergence of what we term a haptic habitus or cultivation of embodied dispositions for touchscreen conduct and competence.

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Cultural phenomenology and the everyday

Cited by 20 publications

References 3 publications

A political‐economic theory of relevance: Explaining climate change inaction

A political‐economic theory of relevance: Explaining climate change inaction

Farmers’ Perceptions of Climate Change in Context: Toward a Political Economy of Relevance

Techniques of the tactile body: A cultural phenomenology of toddlers and mobile touchscreens

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