The Geography of the Everyday: Toward an Understanding of the Given - Couverture souple

Sullivan, Rob

 
9780820351674: The Geography of the Everyday: Toward an Understanding of the Given
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0820351679 ISBN 13 : 9780820351674
Editeur : University of Georgia Press, 2020

Synopsis

Anthropologists, psychologists, feminists, and sociologists have long studied the “everyday,” the quotidian, the taken-for-granted; however, geographers have lagged behind in engaging with this slippery aspect of reality. Now, Rob Sullivan makes the case for geography as a powerful conceptual framework for seeing the everyday anew and for pushing back against its “givenness”: its capacity to so fade into the background that it controls us in dangerously unexamined ways. Drawing on a number of theorists (Foucault, Goffman, Marx, Lefebvre, Hägerstrand, and others), Sullivan unpacks the concepts and perceived realities that structure everyday life while grounding them in real-world cases, such as Nigeria’s troubled oil network, the working poor in the United States, China’s urban villages, and ultra-high-end housing in London and Cairo. In examining the everyday from a geographical perspective, Sullivan ranges widely across time, space, history, geography, Marxian reproduction, the body, and the geographical mind. The everyday, Sullivan suggests, is where change occurs and where resistance to change can begin. By locating the everyday through geography, we can help to make change possible. Whatever the issue, be it struggles over race, LGBT rights, class inequality, or global warming, the transformations required to achieve social justice all begin with transformation of the everyday order.

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À propos de l?auteur

ROB SULLIVAN is a former lecturer in geography at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of Street Level: Los Angeles in the Twenty-First Century and Geography Speaks: Performative Aspects of Geography.

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Éditeur
University of Georgia Press
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0820351679
ISBN 13 
9780820351674
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
216
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780820351681: The Geography of the Everyday: Toward an Understanding of the Given

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0820351687 ISBN 13 :  9780820351681
Editeur : University of Georgia Press, 2017
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