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, Hagerstrand, 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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