Mapping Everyday Cultures

Course aim

The aim of this course is to advance students’ understanding of theoretical frameworks for understanding and analysing everyday life and its cultural practices and to facilitate students’ autonomous exploration of specific consumption sites, drawing on strategies associated with ethnographic research.

Course content

The course explores conceptual accounts of everyday life through the lens of social theory, including the work of Bourdieu, de Certeau and Foucault. Suburban houses and gardens, food, meals and restaurants are examined as sites of experiencing everyday cultures. Holidays, travel, popular music and fashion are also examined to understand how they shape larger discourses of power, identity, consumption/consumerism, ‘style’, myth, memory, utopia, pleasure, resistance and ‘everyday life’ itself. These topics offer opportunities for interviewing and learning the ethics of ethnographic approaches.

Textbook(s)

Nil

Prerequisite(s)

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Project Report, Short Paper

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
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