Situating Everyday Life

Sarah Pink is Professor of Design and Emerging Technologies, Founding Director of the Emerging Technologies Research Lab at Monash University Australia and Associate Director of Monash Energy Institute. She is International Guest Professor at Halmstad University in Sweden, Adjunct Distinguished Professor at RMIT University Australia, where she was previously Director of the Digital Ethnography Research Centre. She is also Visiting Professor in the Design School and Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies at Loughborough University, where she was formerly Professor of Social Sciences. Sarah is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.Sarah is a world leader in innovative digital, visual and sensory research and dissemination methodologies, which she engages in interdisciplinary projects with design, engineering and creative practice disciplines to engage with contemporary issues and challenges. She is known globally for her design anthropological research and collaboration across disciplines and with partners inside and outside academia. She has developed and collaborated in visual ethnography research across the world, including in the United Kingdom, Spain, Sweden, Australia, Brazil, Chile and Indonesia.

Pink provides an engaging study of everyday life analysing it through the prism of activism and focusing on a diversity of environments and practices, from the kitchen sink to the use of internet. By investigating the practices and places implicated in the makings of sustainable everyday living, she successfully links the empirical and theoretical to provide a stimulating read for scholars and students alike. Pink offers a rich interdisciplinary analysis of daily lifeMonica DegenSenior Lecturer, Sociology and Communications, Brunel University Drawing on and developing recent formulations of practice and place-as-event, and deploying a novel range of multi-sensorial methods, Sarah Pink impressively and insightfully engages the everyday in its concrete, relational and processual complexity. As if this were not enough, she also uniquely rethinks activism and sustainability as they are enacted, experienced and mediated in and through everyday life. It is a rare treat to read a book that so successfully addresses and integrates such a broad array of conceptual, methodological and political issuesMike Michael Professor of Sociology of Science and Technology, Goldsmiths

• Introduction: (Re)Thinking about Everyday Life and ActivismTheorizing the Familiar: Practices and PlacesResearching Practices, Places and Representations: Methodologies and MethodsBeyond Doing the Dishes: Putting Kitchen Practices in PlaceMaking the Sensory Home: Laundry Routes and Energy FlowsTracing Neighbourhood Flows: Making a Garden Place(Re)Making Towns: Sustainable Activist Places, Practices and Representations The Digital Places of Everyday Life: Thinking about Activism and the InternetConclusions: Sustainable Places, Activist Practices and Everyday Life