The Everyday Life Reader The Everyday Life Reader brings together a wide range of thinkers from Freud to Baudrillard with primary sources on everyday life to provide a comprehensive resource on theories of everyday life. Ben Highmore’s introduction surveys the development of thought, about everyday life and discusses the issues raised. Each themed section opens with an essay outlining the debates and each article is prefaced with an editor’s introduction. Sections include: Situating the everyday Everyday life and ‘national’ culture Ethnography near and far Reclamation work © Everyday things eoee Contributors: Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, Walter Benjamin, Pierre Bourdieu, Fernand Braudel, Steven Connor, Guy Debord, Michel de Certeau, Sigmund Freud, Betty Friedan, Luce Giard, Jean-Luc Godard, Erving Goffman, Stuart Hall, Harry Harootunian, Alice Kaplan, Mary Kelly, Siegfried Kracauer, Henri Lefebvre, Bronislaw Malinowski, Karal Ann Marling, Mass-Observation, Anne-Marie Miéville, Daniel Miller, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Edgar Morin, Georges Perec, Jacques Ranciére, Kristin Ross, Georg Simmel, Dorothy’ E Smith, Lynn Spigel, Carolyn Stedman, Xiaobing Tang, Leon Trotsky, Raymond Williams, Paul Willis. The Editor: Ben Highmore is Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Media Studies at the University of the West of England. He is the author of Everyday Life and Cultural Theory (Routledge 2002).The Everyday Life Reader Edited by Ben Highmore London and New YorkFirst published 2002 by Routledge TI New Fetter Lane, London ECP 4EE Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 Routledge isan rmprine ofthe Taylor & Francie Group © 2002 Ben Highmore for selection and editorial matter; individual chapters © the contributors ‘Typeset in Perpetua and Bel] Gothic by RefineCatch Limited, Bungay, Sufolk Printed and bound in Great Britai by TJ Intemational Ltd, Padstow, Cornwall All rights reserved. No part ofthis book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers British Library Cataloguing in Publicetion Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congres Cataleging in Publication Data The everyday life reader/edited by Ben Highmore. poem. Includes bibliographical references and index |. Life. 2. Civilization, Modem —20th century. 3. Culture—Philosophy. . Highmore, Ben, 1961- BD431 .£94 2002 306—de21 2001044194 ISBN 0-415--23024~1 (HB) ISBN O-415-23025.X (PR)