Lectures and readings

	Time	Room
Monday	09-11	Aula 8
Thursday	09-11	Aula 20

Dates	Topic	Hours – Progressive Number
Part I: Introduction
MON_11-9	Introducing everyday life and social transformation	2
	Compulsory reading: Highmore, B. (ed.) (2002) The everyday life reader. London ; New York: Routledge, Introduction: Questioning everyday life. Suggested reading: Haas, H. de et al. (2020) ‘Social transformation’. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/1887/3147204 (Accessed: 1 September 2022).
THU_12-9	From founding figures to current problematisations	4
	Compulsory reading: Kalekin-Fishman, D. (2013) ‘Sociology of everyday life’, Current Sociology Review, 61(5–6), pp. 714–732. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/0011392113482112. Suggested reading: Lefebvre, H. (1987) ‘The Everyday and Everydayness’, Yale French Studies, (73), pp. 7–11. Available at: https://doi.org/10.2307/2930193.
MON_18-9	LAB. Everyday methodologies	6
	Readings: Back, L. (2015) ‘Why Everyday Life Matters: Class, Community and Making Life Livable’, Sociology, 49(5), pp. 820–836. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038515589292. or Bennett, J. (2015) ‘“Snowed in!”: Offbeat Rhythms and Belonging as Everyday Practice’, Sociology, 49(5), pp. 955–969. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038515589299. or Gabb, J. and Fink, J. (2015) ‘Telling Moments and Everyday Experience: Multiple Methods Research on Couple Relationships and Personal Lives’, Sociology, 49(5), pp. 970–987. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038515578993.

Part II: CAPITALISM & CLASS
THU_21-9	The capitalist organisation of everyday life	8
	Compulsory reading: Lefebvre, H. (2014) Critique of Everyday Life: the one-volume edition. One-vol. ed. London: Verso, Foreword, pp. 29-42 and 83-99. Suggested readings: Debord, G. 1961. Perspectives for conscious alterations in everyday life. In: Highmore, B. (ed.) (2002) The everyday life reader. London  Williams, R. 1958. Culture is ordinary. In: Highmore, B. (ed.) (2002) The everyday life reader. London ; New York: Routledge, chapter 9. Horkheimer, M. and Adorno, T., W. (2002) Dialectic of the Enlightenment. Philosophical Fragments. Stanford: Stanford University Press, chapter 4: The culture industry Althusser, L. Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses, esp. pp. 158ff.
MON_25-9	LAB Class as habitus	10
	Compulsory reading: Bourdieu, P. (1987) ‘What Makes a Social Class? On The Theoretical and Practical Existence Of Groups’, Berkeley Journal of Sociology, 32, pp. 1–17.
THU_28-9	From needs to desire	12
	Compulsory reading: Marcuse, H. (2002) One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society. London: Routledge, chapter 3. Suggested readings: Fuchs, D.A., Gumbert, T. and Sahakian, M. (2021) Consumption corridors: living a good life within sustainable limits. New York: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, chapter 2. Dal Gobbo, A. (2020) ‘Everyday Life Ecologies: Crisis, Transitions and the Aesth-Etics of Desire’, Environmental Values, 29(4), pp. 397–416. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3197/096327120X15868540131297. Stewart, K. (2007) Ordinary affects. Durham London: Duke University Press, pp. 12-30.
MON_02-10	FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION	14
	Sorry we missed you! by Ken Loach, 2019

Part III: GENDER
THU_05-10	Gendering the everyday: labour, care, knowledge	16
	Compulsory reading: Fraser, N. (2017) Crisis of care? On the social-reproductive contradictions of contemporary capitalism. In: Bhattacharya, T. (ed.) Social reproduction theory: remapping class, recentering oppression. London: Pluto Press. Suggested readings: Smith, D.E. (1987) The Everyday World as Problematic: A Feminist Sociology. University of Toronto Press, chapter 3. Cavallero, L. and Gago, V. (2021) A feminist reading of debt. London: Pluto Press (Mapping social reproduction theory). Federici, S. (2004) Caliban and the Witch: Women, The Body, and Primitive Accumulation. Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia. Hanish, C. (2000) ‘The personal is political’, in B.A. Crow (ed.) Radical Feminism: A Documentary Reader. NYU Press.
MON_09-10	Un-doing gender	18
	Compulsory reading: Butler, J. (2009) Undoing gender. Transferred to digital printing. New York, NY: Routledge, chapter 2 Suggested reading: Foucault, M. (1998) The History of Sexuality, Volume 1. An Introduction. London: Penguin, The repressive hypothesis.
THU_12-10	BOOK PRESENTATION	20
	Quando Eva bussa alla porta – When Eve knocks at the door, by P. Groppo, E. Cangelosi, E. Siliprandi, C. Groppo
MON_16-10	LAB. The symbolic construction of gender	22
	Compulsory reading: TBD Suggested reading: Goffman, E. (2007) The presentation of self in everyday life. London: Penguin Books, pp. 13-27, 109-117.

Part IV: RACE AND DECOLONISING
THU_19-10	Everyday life from the margins: race and intersectionality	24
	Compulsory reading Butler, C. (2010) ‘Morality and Climate Change: Is Leaving your TV on Standby a Risky Behaviour?’, Environmental Values, 19(2), pp. 169–192. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3197/096327110X12699420220554.
MON_23-10	Migration and everyday life	26
	Compulsory reading: Bourdieu, P. (1987) ‘What Makes a Social Class? On The Theoretical and Practical Existence Of Groups’, Berkeley Journal of Sociology, 32, pp. 1–17.

Part V: EVERYDAY LIFE AND ECOLOGY
THU_26-10	LAB. Environmental crisis: individual solutions for a collective problem?	28
	Compulsory reading: hooks, b. (1990) ‘Homeplace (A Site of Resistance)’, in Yearning: Race, gender, and cultural politics. Boston, MA: South End Press. Suggested reading: Hill Collins, P. (2009) Black feminist thought: knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge (Routledge classics), chapter 3. Lugones, M. (2007) ‘Heterosexualism and the Colonial / Modern Gender System’, Hypatia, 22(1), pp. 186–209.
MON_30-10	The everyday as practice: understanding the theory of social practices (Natalia Magnani)	30
	Compulsory reading: Hand, M., Shove, E., & Southerton, D. (2005). Explaining showering: A discussion of the material, conventional, and temporal dimensions of practice. Sociological Research Online, 10(2), 101-113. Suggested readings: Shove, E., Pantzar, M. and Watson, M. (2012) The Dynamics of Social Practice: Everyday Life and how it Changes. SAGE, chapter 1.