Analysing Everyday Experience Social Research and Political Change

by Stephenson, Niamh; Papadopoulos, Dimitris

• ISBN13: 9781403935588
• ISBN10: 1403935580
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-10-03
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Interest in researching experience continues to grow in sociology, cultural studies, feminist theory and psychology. However there is a crisis over the representation of experience--evident in epistemological debates, in everyday life and in global politics. Could researching experience contribute to creating socio-political change or does it simply open new avenues for post-Fordist self-regulation? Analysing Everyday Experience illustrates the emergence of plural historical actors who disrupt unitary subjectivities, resist univocal integration and refigure the political by remaking everyday experience.

Author Biography

NIAMH STEPHENSON teaches Social Science, Social Theory and Public Health, and Qualitative Research Methods at the School of Public Health & Community Medicine, the University of New South Wales, Australia. DIMITRIS PAPADOPOULOS teaches Theory of the Social Sciences, Critical Psychology, and Social and Cultural Theory at the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, and at the Department of Education and Psychology, Free University of Berlin, Germany.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	viii
Prologue	x
Part I The Problem of Experience	1	(46)
Interrupting Neoliberal Subjectivities	3	(22)
The Political Project of Articulation	25	(22)
Part II Working with a Moving Target in Social Research	47	(48)
The Collective Subject of Memory-work	49	(22)
The Sociability of Experience	71	(24)
Part III Experience and Socio-political Transformation	95	(44)
Self-Freedom	97	(22)
Rethinking Collectivity	119	(20)
Part IV Continuous Experience	139	(41)
Three Paradigms of Experience	141	(18)
Experience after Representation	159	(21)
References	180	(12)
Index	192