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Informationen zum Autor Sarah Pink is Professor of Design and Emerging Technologies, Founding Director of the Emerging Technologies Research Lab at Monash University Australia and Associate Director of Monash Energy Institute. She is International Guest Professor at Halmstad University in Sweden, Adjunct Distinguished Professor at RMIT University Australia, where she was previously Director of the Digital Ethnography Research Centre. She is also Visiting Professor in the Design School and Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies at Loughborough University, where she was formerly Professor of Social Sciences. Sarah is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Sarah is a world leader in innovative digital, visual and sensory research and dissemination methodologies, which she engages in interdisciplinary projects with design, engineering and creative practice disciplines to engage with contemporary issues and challenges. She is known globally for her design anthropological research and collaboration across disciplines and with partners inside and outside academia. She has developed and collaborated in visual ethnography research across the world, including in the United Kingdom, Spain, Sweden, Australia, Brazil, Chile and Indonesia. Klappentext A fresh, timely book from a rising star - this is an excellent resource for students and researchers of everyday life, activism and sustainability across the social sciences. It provides a useful theoretical and methodological framework for understanding everyday practices, and uses real world case-studies to bring it to life. Zusammenfassung A fresh! timely book from a rising star - this is an excellent resource for students and researchers of everyday life! activism and sustainability across the social sciences. It provides a useful theoretical and methodological framework for understanding everyday practices! and uses real world case-studies to bring it to life. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: (Re)Thinking about Everyday Life and Activism Theorizing the Familiar: Practices and Places Researching Practices, Places and Representations: Methodologies and Methods Beyond Doing the Dishes: Putting Kitchen Practices in Place Making the Sensory Home: Laundry Routes and Energy Flows Tracing Neighbourhood Flows: Making a Garden Place (Re)Making Towns: Sustainable Activist Places, Practices and Representations The Digital Places of Everyday Life: Thinking about Activism and the Internet Conclusions: Sustainable Places, Activist Practices and Everyday Life ...
