Quotes from the lecture explaining what the subject is about?

The subject is about Studies of everyday life, it tend to focus on the lives of people in Western countries living in relative prosperity. It is in this regard a distorted view of everyday life as it is lived by the majority of the people on the planet today. Even in prosperous Western countries like Australia there are still large sections of society who live in a state of ‘precarity’. This subject explores everyday life situations that are outside the realm of happy, normal and safe, such as slums, prisons, sweatshops and war zones and raises questions about the ideals of those who expect safe, happy lives and the reality of the majority of people.  It also looks at social movements and cultural activism and how they attempt to make changes and improve the everyday lives of the many.

Culture: I think that what we mean by a culture is a collectivity with an inside. To refer to an organized set of social habits, behaviors and relations as expressive rather than merely characteristic. Your culture is what you are, rather than what you do. So when one is speaking of culture, one is scooping out a space for an imagined subject of that culture, and construing it therefore as a collective form of consciousness and feeling.

QUESTION

We have explored how certain ideas have real material effects in peoples’ everyday lives. Identify and Discuss a key idea from one of the weekly topics and apply to a case study.You need to identify the key idea – demonstrate your understanding and explore it through applying it to case study. Your essay must conform to the expectations of formal academic writing and it must demonstrate critical engagement with the subject material (lectures and readings) and key ideas.Excellent essays will demonstrate independent research that extends beyond the provided and suggested readings. You are expected to apply the key concepts through examples. The format is an essay (introduction, body of argument and conclusion).

The topic being chosen is ((Globalisation and Grassroots movements))

ARTICLES

Appadurai, Arjun, 2006, ‘Grassroots Globalization in the Era of Ideocide’, in Fear of SmallNumbers, Duke, Durham, p. 115-137(this is the main article)

Orr, D 2009 “Millennial Hope” in Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse, Oxford:OUP: 155-180.

George, S 2004 “We Salvage the Planet” in Another World is Possible If, London: Verso: 29-52.

Harvey, D 2009 “Places, Regions, Territories” in Cosmopolitanism and the Geographies ofFreedom, NY: Columbia UP: 166-201.

Lewis, Tania and Potter, Emily (eds), 2011, Ethical Consumption: a critical introduction,Routledge, Oxon, U. K.

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