The mundane and insignificant, the ordinary and the extraordinary: Understanding Everyday Participation and theories of everyday life

Ebrey, Jill

doi:10.1080/09548963.2016.1204044

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“…Although much of the literature presented above is taken from cultural consumption studies, this participatory aspect is relevant for how we designed our study (see Miles and Gibson, 2016). We kept our eyes open for what this participation consists of and ‘where it might take place and how it is valued as culture, where, by whom and why’ (Ebrey, 2016: 160). As Ebrey further recommends, we conducted careful and exploratory research in order to better understand culture ‘as practiced outside formal institutions and middle class enclaves’ (2016: 160).…”

Section: Method: the Study Of Karaoke Participantsmentioning

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Secretly Serious? Maintaining and Crossing Cultural Boundaries in the Karaoke Bar Through Ironic Consumption

2017

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When existing cultural boundaries seem to blur, people will look for alternative ways to express their identities. Recent research has shown that aesthetic dispositions (how one consumes culture) may be more significant than taste preferences (what is consumed). Sociologists therefore wonder whether distinction might be going underground. Elaborating on this issue, we examine the role of irony in cultural consumption through nine in-depth interviews with karaoke participants contacted in two bars in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, as we suspect that the ironic attitude is ideally suited to crossing cultural boundaries and, at the same time, to upholding class boundaries by distancing oneself from cultural activities that are considered enjoyable yet incongruent with one's identity. We indeed found large differences in how people performed and appreciated karaoke, which aligned with their levels of cultural capital.

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Section: Method: the Study Of Karaoke Participantsmentioning

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Secretly Serious? Maintaining and Crossing Cultural Boundaries in the Karaoke Bar Through Ironic Consumption

2017

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“…People's experiences and expressions present their own scale. Few of these activities would fall under the remit of institutions which receive investment to support personal activities by way of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), being more 'everyday' in their nature (see Miles & Gibson, 2016;Ebrey, 2016 for definitions of how everyday participation is largely unfunded).…”

Section: Free Text Fields: a Methodology For Lived Culturementioning

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Leisure pursuits: uncovering the ‘selective tradition’ in culture and well-being evidence for policy

Oman

2019

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This article reconsiders the value of leisure studies to well-being evidence for policy-making. It presents secondary analyses of Office for National Statistics data from the Measuring National Well-being (MNW) debate (2010). It finds that leisure is more important to the nation than accounted for in official reports. Using Raymond Williams' framework of 'lived culture' and 'recorded culture', the article interprets this analytical discrepancy as demonstrating the culture of 'selective tradition'. Raymond Williams' work is used to understand the sidelining of leisure in the MNW programme in two ways. Firstly, the article addresses survey design and analysis. It finds a methodological bias against free text data as evidence, affecting which aspects of cultural and social life appear central to well-being. Secondly, the article takes a discourse approach to cultural sector advocacy, which, in arguing the value of arts-related activity, relegates aspects of 'culture as ordinary' by default. These two selective traditions mean that 'everyday participation' is not valued in discussions of well-being evidence, advocacy or in the final MNW measures, despite its value to the public. This article prioritises everyday understandings of well-being over those of experts, offering an ethical and practical contribution to leisure studies and policy-making for wellbeing.

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“…Although insightful for tracking trends, it is important to recognise that the value to a social group of its lived culture cannot be captured by economic measures (Walmsley 2012; Taylor 2016). Klamer (2002, p. 467), for example, argues that "cultural capital appears to generate the most important values of all, values that can give meaning to our life", while others have emphasised the cultural value that is enjoyed in "the lived experience of everyday life" (Highmore 2002;Back 2015;Ebrey 2016;Miles 2016).…”

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Wellbeing Economics

Dalziel

Saunders

2018

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Wellbeing in Politics and Policy will bring new lenses through which to understand the significance of the dramatic rise of interest in wellbeing as a goal of public policy. While a number of academic disciplines have been influential in both shaping and seeking to explain developments, the Politics discipline has been relatively silent, leaving important theoretical and empirical insights largely absent from debates: insights that have increasing significance as political interest grows. This series will provide a distinctive addition to the field that puts politics and policy at the centre, while embracing interdisciplinary contributions. Contributions will be encouraged from various subfields of the discipline (e.g., political theory, comparative politics, governance and public policy, international relations) and from those located in other disciplines that speak to core political themes (e.g., accountability, gender, inequality, legitimacy and power). The series will seek to explore these themes through policy studies in a range of settings-international, national and local. Comparative studies-either of different policy areas and/or across different settings-will be particularly encouraged. The series will incorporate a wide range of perspectives from critical to problem-solving approaches, drawing on a variety of epistemologies and methodologies. The series welcomes Pivots, edited collections and monographs.

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The mundane and insignificant, the ordinary and the extraordinary: Understanding Everyday Participation and theories of everyday life

Cited by 41 publications

References 24 publications

Secretly Serious? Maintaining and Crossing Cultural Boundaries in the Karaoke Bar Through Ironic Consumption

Secretly Serious? Maintaining and Crossing Cultural Boundaries in the Karaoke Bar Through Ironic Consumption

Leisure pursuits: uncovering the ‘selective tradition’ in culture and well-being evidence for policy

Wellbeing Economics

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