Sarah Pink 
Situating Everyday Life [EPUB ebook] 
Practices and Places

The study of everyday life is fundamental to our understanding of modern society.



This agenda-setting book provides a coherent, interdisciplinary way to engage with everyday activities and environments. Arguing for an innovative, ethnographic approach, it uses detailed examples, based in real world and digital research, to bring its theories to life.



The book focuses on the sensory, embodied, mobile and mediated elements of practice and place as a route to understanding wider issues. By doing so, it convincingly outlines a robust theoretical and methodological approach to understanding contemporary everyday life and activism.



A fresh, timely book, this is an excellent resource for students and researchers of everyday life, activism and sustainability across the social sciences.

Cuprins

Introduction: (Re)Thinking about Everyday Life and Activism

Theorizing the Familiar: Practices and Places

Researching Practices, Places and Representations: Methodologies and Methods

Beyond Doing the Dishes: Putting Kitchen Practices in Place

Making the Sensory Home: Laundry Routes and Energy Flows

Tracing Neighbourhood Flows: Making a Garden Place

(Re)Making Towns: Sustainable Activist Places, Practices and Representations

The Digital Places of Everyday Life: Thinking about Activism and the Internet

Conclusions: Sustainable Places, Activist Practices and Everyday Life

Despre autor

Sarah Pink is Professor of Design and Emerging Technologies, Founding Director of the Emerging Technologies Research Lab at Monash University Australia and Associate Director of Monash Energy Institute. She is International Guest Professor at Halmstad University in Sweden, Adjunct Distinguished Professor at RMIT University Australia, where she was previously Director of the Digital Ethnography Research Centre. She is also Visiting Professor in the Design School and Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies at Loughborough University, where she was formerly Professor of Social Sciences. Sarah is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.Sarah is a world leader in innovative digital, visual and sensory research and dissemination methodologies, which she engages in interdisciplinary projects with design, engineering and creative practice disciplines to engage with contemporary issues and challenges. She is known globally for her design anthropological research and collaboration across disciplines and with partners inside and outside academia. She has developed and collaborated in visual ethnography research across the world, including in the United Kingdom, Spain, Sweden, Australia, Brazil, Chile and Indonesia.