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Book Review: Dialektik der Kommunikationsgesellschaft

Dialektik der Kommunikationsgesellschaft. Richard Münch (1991). Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp. 397 Pages. ISBN 3-518-28480-0.
Reviewed by Pablo B. Markin, DAAD Center for German Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Richard Münch’s 1991 Dialektik der Kommunikationsgesellschaft [The Dialectics of Communication Society (my translation)] makes notable contributions to sociological theory, historical and comparative sociology, and sociological analysis of contemporary society [...]

2009 12 21 Anne Galloway Comments Off

Book Review: Lines, Horizons, Fissures, Fixtures: Emotional Geographies

Emotional Geographies. Eds. Joyce Davidson, Liz Bondi and Mick Smith (2007). Hampshire, GB: Ashgate Publishing Ltd. 258 pp. ISBN 978-0-7546-4375-3
Reviewed by Cheryl Cowdy Crawford, York University
“Whether joyful, heartbreaking or numbing, emotion has the power to transform the shape of our lives, expanding or contracting our horizons, creating new fissures or fixtures we never expected to [...]

2009 10 19 Anne Galloway Comments Off

Book Review: Maria Lugones’ Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes – A Personal Journey of Resistance

Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes: Theorizing Coalition Against Multiple Oppressions by Maria Lugones (2003). Oxford: Rowman & Little Field Publishers, Inc. 240 pp. ISBN-10: 0742514595
Reviewed by Laura Murphy, University of Alberta
Connecting theory with lived experience can be challenging – especially when writing in resistance to hegemony. However, by drawing upon her own embodied and marginalized struggles, Maria [...]

2009 10 08 Anne Galloway Comments Off

Book Review: The Reinvention of Everyday Life: Culture in the twenty-first century

The Reinvention of Everyday Life: Culture in the twenty-first century. Edited by Howard McNaughton and Adam Lam (2006). Christchurch NZ: Canterbury University Press. 264 pp. ISBN 1-877257-48-6
Reviewed by Niamh Hennessy, York University
This is an interesting and provocative collection of stories, commentaries and reviews that offer a series of meditations on the transformations of everyday life [...]

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Book Review: Experiencing the Everyday in Maurice Blanchot’s “Everyday Speech”

Blanchot, M. (1987). “Everyday speech” (S. Hanson, Trans.). Yale French Studies, 73, 12-20. (Original work published 1959)
Reviewed by Amy Macdonald, University of Alberta

What is the everyday? This question might seem unnecessary and superfluous. Are we not surrounded by it, steeped in it? Is it not something we can know and understand naturally, something we can [...]

2009 06 02 Siobhan Lynch Everyday life Comments Off