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Book SynopsisMichel de Certeau's seminal work, "The Practice of Everyday Life", is one of the most cited works in Sociology, Geography and Cultural Studies. Providing an account of de Certeau's work and its relation to the field of cultural studies, this book explores those aspects of de Certeau's work that both challenge and re-imagine cultural studies.
Trade Review"Highmore's contribution is not a general presentation of de Certeau's thought. Rather, it is a complex, ambitious, and important study that requires some prior knowledge of de Certeau's major works and a familiarity with the discourses, disciplines, and fields of inquiry that have emerged over the past several decades in the wake of post-structuralism and deconstruction." —Alain Gabon, Virginia Wesleyan College, Substance, #115, Vol. 37, No. 1, 2008 -- Alain Gabon
To follow from Tom Conley (Harvard) and Elspeth Probyn (Sydney) * Blurb from reviewer *
Table of ContentsPreface and acknowledgements; 1. Ways of Operating: Introducing Michel de Certeau's Methodological Imagination; 2. An Epistemological Awakening: History and Writing; 3. The Oceanic Rumble of the Ordinary: Psychoanalysis and Culture; 4. Zones of Silence: Orality, Archives, and Resistance; 5. The Zoo of Everyday Practices: Literature, Narratives, Voices; 6. An Art of Diversion: Cultural Policy and the Counter Public Sphere; 7. Cultural Studies: A Practitioner's Art.
