Ben Highmore traces the development of conceptions of everyday life, from Georg Simmel’s cultural sociology, through the Mass-Observation project of the thirties to theorists such as Michel Curteau.

Using a range of cultural forms Cityscapes spans the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, finding vivid examples of urban movements in Edgar Allan Poe’s London, in Parisian departments stores, in colonial…

This study provides a critical and historical introduction to theories of everyday life. Ben Highmore traces the development of conceptions of the topic, from the cultural sociology of Georg Simmel…

Michel 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…