The mundane and insignificant, the ordinary and the extraordinary: Understanding Everyday Participation and theories of everyday life
In: Cultural trends, Volume 25, Issue 3, p. 158-168
ISSN: 1469-3690
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In: Cultural trends, Volume 25, Issue 3, p. 158-168
ISSN: 1469-3690
In: Ebrey , J 2016 , ' The mundane and insignificant, the ordinary and the extraordinary : Understanding Everyday Participation and theories of everyday life ' Cultural Trends , vol 25 , no. 3 , pp. 158-168 . DOI:10.1080/09548963.2016.1204044
The Understanding Everyday Participation (UEP) research project questions "official" versions of what constitutes cultural participation and "proposes a radical re-evaluation of the relationship between participation and cultural value" (www.everydayparticipation.org/about/test-showcase-page/). This article will map out a selective literature review of everyday life with a particular focus on sociological writing, and additional contributions from both scholars of history and philosophy. It will suggest how such work might illuminate both UEP research and cultural policy development. Furthermore, it makes the case for such literature usefully underpinning the project's focus on developing the "research–policy–practice nexus", arguing that a careful analysis of the complexities of everyday life can help to generate more democratic and participatory everyday cultural environments.
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In: Cultural trends, Volume 26, Issue 1, p. 58-69
ISSN: 1469-3690
This article examines how intensifying inequality in the UK plays out at a local level, in order to bring out the varied ways polarisation takes place 'on the ground'. It brings a community analysis buttressed by quantitative framing to the study of economic, spatial and relational polarisation in four towns in the UK. We distinguish differing dynamics of 'elite-based' polarisation (in Oxford and Tunbridge Wells) and 'poverty-based' polarisation (in Margate and Oldham). Yet there are also common features. Across the towns, marginalised communities express a sense of local belonging. But tensions between social groups also remain strong and all towns are marked by a weak or 'squeezed middle'. We argue that the weakness of intermediary institutions, including but not limited to the 'missing middle', and capable of bridging gaps between various social groups, provides a major insight into both the obstacles to, and potential solutions for, re-politicising inequality today.
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In: Sociology: the journal of the British Sociological Association, Volume 55, Issue 1, p. 3-29
ISSN: 1469-8684
This article examines how intensifying inequality in the UK plays out at a local level, in order to bring out the varied ways polarisation takes place 'on the ground'. It brings a community analysis buttressed by quantitative framing to the study of economic, spatial and relational polarisation in four towns in the UK. We distinguish differing dynamics of 'elite-based' polarisation (in Oxford and Tunbridge Wells) and 'poverty-based' polarisation (in Margate and Oldham). Yet there are also common features. Across the towns, marginalised communities express a sense of local belonging. But tensions between social groups also remain strong and all towns are marked by a weak or 'squeezed middle'. We argue that the weakness of intermediary institutions, including but not limited to the 'missing middle', and capable of bridging gaps between various social groups, provides a major insight into both the obstacles to, and potential solutions for, re-politicising inequality today.