Everyday Life

Heller, Ágnes

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“…However, we argue that notions of normativity and resistance depend on the different discourses of belonging of the participants in these everyday situations and therefore 'everyday life' cannot be studied unless we employ a multi-epistemological situated intersectional analysis. Rather than accepting the everyday as a 'babble of multiple tongues' (Featherstone, 1995), the arena of 'doxa' (Heller, 1984) or of 'what is left over' after all distinct, superior, specialized, structured activities have been singled out by analysis, everyday life must be defined as a totality (Lefebvre, 1991: 97).…”

Section: Theoretical Frame: Everyday Bordering and The Politics Of Bementioning

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Everyday Bordering, Belonging and the Reorientation of British Immigration Legislation

Yuval‐Davis

Wemyss

Cassidy³

2017

Sociology

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Section: Theoretical Frame: Everyday Bordering and The Politics Of Bementioning

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Everyday Bordering, Belonging and the Reorientation of British Immigration Legislation

Yuval‐Davis

Wemyss

Cassidy³

2017

Sociology

301

238

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“…Within it, actions occur without prior reflection, based on momentary judgments and guided by reflexive reproduction. Hence, the coexistence and succession of heterogeneous activities make the space of everyday life prone to alienation (Heller, 1984). Furthermore, in everyday life the production and reproduction of social relations take place, that is, the very production of human beings over the course of history.…”

Section: The Possibility Of (Extra) Ordinariness In Everyday Lifementioning

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“…In Heller (1984) the subject has a relative degree of freedom to make choices, but experiences alienation through work in their daily lives. However, De Certeau (1990a, 1990b proposes an opposite direction to these ideas about everyday life, always pointing to a position change, emancipation and creation of the subject and of popular culture.…”

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“…Yet, it has to be mentioned that Lefebvre (1974) and Heller (1984) have also discussed such a category in their works. These authors perceive everyday life as the locus for the possibility of becoming.…”

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“…The ordinary element of everyday life represents a possibility for (extra) ordinariness to happen, through the potential it holds for reflexivity. Heller (1984) defines everyday life as a space for creation and alienation through the actions of individuals and Lefebvre (1974) defines it is a locus for praxis and a space for human experimentation. However, this paper is based on the work of De Certeau (1990aCerteau ( , 1990b, who defines BAR, Rio de Janeiro, v. 13, n. 3, art.…”

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BAR, Braz. Adm. Rev.

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This paper aims to examine the everyday management of traveling circuses in Brazil by looking for the practices and strategies that allow them to survive over time. To this end, it relies on theories about the management of everyday life developed by De Certeau. The discourses of individuals working at small, medium and large circuses is analysed to reveal their routine strategies and tactics. This analysis reveals the complexities and contradictions involved in the management of such organizations, while debating the strategies and tactics developed within them, as well as the everyday process of creation-invention. Circuses are practiced organizations like any other and, as such, they are part of the local social-historical reality, reconstructing themselves every day.

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Local climate change cultures: climate-relevant discursive practices in three emerging economies

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In recent decades, greater acknowledgement has been given to climate change as a cultural phenomenon. This paper takes a cultural lens to the topic of climate change, in which climaterelevant understandings are grounded in wider cultural, political and material contexts. We approach climate-relevant accounts at the level of the everyday, understood as a theoretically problematic and politically contested space This is in contrast to simply being the backdrop to mundane, repetitive actions contributing to environmental degradation and the site of mitigative actions. Taking discourse as a form of practice in which fragments of cultural knowledge are drawn on to construct our environmental problems, we investigate citizens' accounts of climate-relevant issues in three culturally diverse emerging economies: Brazil, South Africa and China. These settings are important because greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are predicted to significantly increase in these countries in the future. We conducted semistructured interviews with a range of citizens in each country using a narrative approach to contextualise climate-relevant issues as part of people's lifestyle narratives. Participants overwhelmingly framed their accounts in the context of locally-salient issues, and few accounts explicitly referred to the phenomenon of climate change. Instead, elements of climate changes were conflated with other environmental issues and related to a wide range of cultural assumptions that influenced understandings and implied particular ways of responding to environmental problems. We conclude that climate change scholars should address locally relevant understandings and develop dialogues that can wider meanings that construct climaterelevant issues in vernacular ways at the local level.

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Everyday Life

Cited by 25 publications

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Everyday Bordering, Belonging and the Reorientation of British Immigration Legislation

Everyday Bordering, Belonging and the Reorientation of British Immigration Legislation

The Wonderful, Magnanimous, Spectacular and Possible World of Traveling Circuses in Brazil

Local climate change cultures: climate-relevant discursive practices in three emerging economies

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