Lectures and readings

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Monday09-11Aula 8
Thursday09-11Aula 20





DatesTopicHours – Progressive Number
Part I: Introduction
MON_11-9Introducing everyday life and social transformation2
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).
MON_18-9From founding figures to current problematisations4
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.
THU_21-9LAB. Everyday methodologies6
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
MON_25-9The capitalist organisation of everyday life8
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.
THU_28-9LAB Class as habitus10
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.
MON_02-10From needs to desire12
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.
THU_05-10FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION14
Sorry we missed you! by Ken Loach, 2019



Part III: GENDER
MON_09-10Gendering the everyday: labour, care, knowledge16
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.
THU_12-10BOOK PRESENTATION18
Quando Eva bussa alla porta – When Eve knocks at the door, by P. Groppo, E. Cangelosi, E. Siliprandi, C. Groppo
MON_16-10Un-doing gender20
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_18-10LAB. The symbolic construction of gender22
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
MON_23-10Everyday life from the margins: race and intersectionality24
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.
THU_26-10Migration and everyday life26
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.



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Part V: EVERYDAY LIFE AND ECOLOGY
MON_30-10Environmental crisis, everyday life and political ecology28
Compulsory reading:

Dal Gobbo, A. (2022) ‘Engaging the everyday: sustainability, practices, politics’, in L. Pellizzoni, E. Leonardi, and V. Asara (eds) Handbook of Critical Environmental Politics. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.

THU_02-11The 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.
MON_06-11LAB From post-materialism to new materialisms32
Compulsory reading:
Storey J. (2017) “Why we consume”, in Theories of Consumption, London, Routledge: pp. 1-17.
Suggested reading:
Magnus Boström (2020) The social life of mass and excess consumption, Environmental Sociology, 6:3, 268-278, DOI: 10.1080/23251042.2020.1755001 
THU_08-10Everyday life and consumption (Francesca Forno)34
Compulsory reading: Schlosberg, D. (2019) ‘From postmaterialism to sustainable materialism: the environmental politics of practice-based movements’, Environmental Politics, pp. 1–21. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2019.1587215.



Part VI: CRISIS, POLITICS AND PARTICIPATION
MON_13-11Civil society, mobilisation and institutions (Sebastiano Citroni)36
Compulsory reading:
TBD
Suggested readings:
TBD
THU_16-11Political consumerism: “from the streets to the shops” (Francesca Forno)38
Compulsory reading:
Forno, F. and Ceccarini, L. (2006) ‘From the Street to the Shops: The Rise of New Forms of Political Actions in Italy’, South European Society and Politics, 11(2), pp. 197–222. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/13608740600645501.

Suggested reading:
de Moor, J. Lifestyle politics and the concept of political participation. Acta Politica 52, 179–197 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1057/ap.2015.27
MON_20-01Towards post-capitalist societies: Prefiguration40
Compulsory reading: View the SETS seminar with Lara Monticelli

Suggested readings:
Dinerstein, A.C. (2016) ‘The Radical Subject and Its Critical Theory: An Introduction’, in A.C. Dinerstein (ed.) Social Sciences for an Other Politics. Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 1–15. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47776-3_1.
Holloway, J. (2010) Crack capitalism. London: Pluto Press, part 1.
Zamponi, L. (2019) ‘Direct Social Action, Welfare Retrenchment and Political Identities. Coping with the Crisis and Pursuing Change in Italy’, Partecipazione e Conflitto. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1285/I20356609V12I2P382.
MON_27-11LAB. Building the politics of the everyday42
TBD



Part VII: CLOSING
THU_30-11Q&A44

MON_04-12Coursework presentations46

THU_07-12Coursework presentations48