Explore the modern phenomenon of everyday life as discussed by Lefebvre, Alice Walker, and Mike Featherstone. Delve into the significance of routine activities, spatial differentiation, habit, and the concept of 'home' in shaping our daily experiences. Discover insightful perspectives on habitus, embodied cultural capital, and the societal structures that influence our behaviors and perceptions.
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STUDYING EVERYDAY LIFE Lefebvre everyday life is a modern phenomenon Everyday life as secular and democratic Alice Walker: Everyday Use Mike Featherstone - The heroic life is the sphere of danger, violence and the courting of risk whereas everyday life is the sphere of women, reproduction and care.
TIME Day after day activities sleeping, eating and working Repetition as a problem for progress and accumulation Linear vs Cyclical time Uneven development, slows historical change
HOME Lack of spatial differentiation includes a variety of spaces and movements Agnes Heller: Integral to the average everyday life is awareness of a fixed point in space, a firm position from which we proceed (whether every day or over larger periods of time) and to which we return in due course. This firm position is what we call home. Lefebvre is critical of suburbanality a symbol of alienation Longing for home as a regressive desire
HABIT Everyday = habit Lefebvre: the quotidian is what is humble and solid, what is taken for granted . . . undated and (apparently) insignificant. Behaviour as habit and paradoxical Judith Butler sedimented practices are functions of repressive regimes of gender Aestheticization of everyday life
PIERRE BOURDIEU Wanted to reconcile differences within structuralism and phenomenology The observer 'compensates for lack of practical mastery by creating a cultural map Reflexive sociology Habitus in Outline of a Theory of Practice Habitus to overcome subject-object dualism 'The cognitive structures which social agents implement in their practical knowledge of the social world are internalised, embodied social structures'
PIERRE BOURDIEU - HABITUS Physical embodiment of cultural capital The feel for the game Habitus extends to taste for cultural objects
HABITUS TYPES Embodied cultural capital Linguistic cultural capital Objectified cultural capital Institutionalized cultural capital Technical, emotional, national and subcultural
HABITUS Issue of human agency - is habitus a choice? Structures are testable Consider social relations
MICHAEL GARDINER Counter-traditional Intersubjective management of social/cultural material Revolutionary analysis of everyday life
QUESTIONS Mike Featherstone: Undoing Culture. Globalization, Postmodernism and Identity, Chapter 4 How does the process of differentiation occur and what conditions do you imagine would lead to certain groups establishing societal dominance? How does Simmel relate the roles of art and the adventurer within the concept of the heroic life ? Do you think the concepts of the heroic life and the everyday life can still be applied to gender in the 21stCentury? How far has consumption altered the concept of the heroic life ?
QUESTIONS Ben Highmore Everyday Life and Cultural Theory, Chapter 7: To what extent could Lefebvre s idea of the colonisation of everyday life by capitalism apply to your own cultural contexts? E.g. Morocco, Japan... What does Lefebvre mean by the creation of the total person [ ] can be seen as the end of history p.120 What is the significance of La f te in everyday life do you think it constitutes a real act of subversion? Why does Lefebvre believe we should de-familiarise everyday life?
