Making Sense of Everyday Life

Scott, Susie; Mason, Andrew

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“…Most obviously, the project reflects a revival of interest in the study of everyday life and the significance of apparently mundane routines, activities and interactions (Scott, 2009), which, as the recent special edition of the journal Sociology (Neal & Murji, 2015) on the same subject indicates, shows no sign of abating. Meanwhile, most recent accounts of cultural taste and consumption in Anglophone countries and Europe have been developed within, or with reference to, a Bourdieusian framework and as such fix on what Warde (2013) calls the "high culture system" and its commonly accepted transformation by the rise of the "cultural omnivore" (Peterson & Kern, 1996).…”

Section: Everyday Participation and Cultural Valuementioning

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Everyday participation and cultural value

Miles

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2016

Cultural Trends

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Section: Everyday Participation and Cultural Valuementioning

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Everyday participation and cultural value

Miles

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2016

Cultural Trends

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“…Instead, in this article we argue that responses to place names may be much less purposeful and, instead, may be characterized more by habit or inertia. In doing so we link critical toponymic studies to recent trends in geography and related disciplines which seek to understand the everyday through multiple lenses, and not just the lens of resistance (Harrison 2000;Highmore 2004Highmore , 2011Moran 2005;Scott 2009;Edensor 2010 Taberei district use the name of the market in their everyday lives and how this relates to the surprising persistence of a socialist-era toponym.…”

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Habit, Memory, and the Persistence of Socialist-Era Street Names in Postsocialist Bucharest, Romania

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Young

2014

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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Habit, memory, and the persistence of socialist-era street names in post-socialist Bucharest, Romania. Abstract:The critical study of toponymy has paid considerable attention to the renaming of urban places following revolutionary political change. Such renaming is intended to institutionalize a new political agenda through shaping the meanings in everyday practices and landscapes.Renaming, however, may not always be successful and this article examines this issue with reference to a market in Bucharest, Romania. Originally named Piaţa Moghioroş during the socialist era to commemorate a leading Communist Party activist, the market was renamed in the post-socialist period. Yet, more than two decades on, the original name remains in widespread everyday use. Using a mixed-method approach we seek to advance the critical toponymies literature by exploring the persistence of the socialist-era name within everyday practice. Although many authors have highlighted the issue of popular resistance to an unpopular renaming we find little evidence of conscious resistance, and instead we explore the importance of habit within everyday practices as an explanation, drawing on an understanding of habit derived from socio-cognitive psychology. This perspective proposes that habits are stable and hard to break if the broader context in which they are situated is stable and we suggest that this explanation, rather than popular contestation, has more to offer in understanding the persistence of the toponym Piaţa Moghioroş. We thus highlight the importance of considering how the "users" of place names react to the changes of such names and create their own meanings in relation to them in ways unintended by elites.

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“…Some scholarship draws on either ethnographic field data collected to explore state-building and post-conflict reconstruction (see e.g., Jeffrey 2006), or, through a form of discourse analysis, interrogates the loss or dispossession of identity, deconstructing the internal skirmishes of ethnic and identitarian debate (see e.g., Campbell 1998). Drifting somewhat against the more established geopolitical discourses associated with research on the collapse of Yugoslavia (see Glenny 1992, Thompson 1992, Rieff 1995, Little and Silber 1996, Campbell 1998, the post-socialist transition era after Yugoslavia (see Arsenijevi 2011, 2014, Toal and Dahlman 2011, Jeffrey 2012, Horvat and Štiks 2015, and the Balkans more widely (see Carter 1977, Todorova 1997, Goldsworthy 1998, Glenny 1999, Žižek 2000, Mazower 2002), this essay attempts to follow instead the trail of another, more essential or everyday history and geography (see de Certeau 1984, Holloway and Hubbard 2000, Bennett and Watson 2002, Scott 2009). …”

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Geographical testimony: a short history of a Yugoslav family

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2016

Journal of Cultural Geography

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I attempt in this essay to travel outside of and beyond the more spectacular or established geopolitical discourses associated with research on post-conflict regions, and follow instead the trail of another more essential or everyday history and geography. Listening to and responding to the testimony of a single Yugoslav family, I draw from and write of memories of former places, initially returning to the traumatic moments of 1992, and a journey across Europe. In so doing I reflect upon the use of testimony in geographical writing, positioning it as an inherently geographical psychoanalytic technique, which not only eases suffering in individuals and communities, but offers new possibilities for societal change and transitional justice in post-conflict regions.

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Making Sense of Everyday Life

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Everyday participation and cultural value

Everyday participation and cultural value

Habit, Memory, and the Persistence of Socialist-Era Street Names in Postsocialist Bucharest, Romania

Geographical testimony: a short history of a Yugoslav family

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