Situating Everyday Life: Practices and Places: No.41 (A

Situating Everyday Life: Practices and Places: No.41 (A "Guardian" Book)

by J.Course (Editor), SarahPink (Author)

Synopsis

A selection of articles from The Guardian , of the most important, surprising or amusing events of 1991-92, from the tragedies and triumphs of the world stage to the dramas of the cricket field. The continuing disintegration of the Soviet Union, the futile warring between Serbs and Croats in Yugoslavia, the horrifying internecine killings in South Africa, as well as its mould-breaking yes vote, the American primaries, our own General Elections and the Labour Party's leadership election are all analyzed and discussed by The Guardian 's award-winning team of political and foreign correspondents. It was an extraordinary year for sex. The trials of William Kennedy Smith, Mike Tyson, Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill, and Paddy Ashdown provide meaty material for The Guardian 's observers of our times. It also includes articles on the tribulations of World Cup players of cricket and rugby and on participants in the Winter Olympics.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Published: 29 Oct 1992

ISBN 10: 185702057X
ISBN 13: 9781857020571

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Pink provides an engaging study of everyday life analysing it through the prism of activism and focusing on a diversity of environments and practices, from the kitchen sink to the use of internet. By investigating the practices and places implicated in the makings of sustainable everyday living, she successfully links the empirical and theoretical to provide a stimulating read for scholars and students alike. Pink offers a rich interdisciplinary analysis of daily lifeMonica DegenSenior Lecturer, Sociology and Communications, Brunel University Drawing on and developing recent formulations of practice and place-as-event, and deploying a novel range of multi-sensorial methods, Sarah Pink impressively and insightfully engages the everyday in its concrete, relational and processual complexity. As if this were not enough, she also uniquely rethinks activism and sustainability as they are enacted, experienced and mediated in and through everyday life. It is a rare treat to read a b