Everyday life and Lebenswelt

The everyday is a heuristic category in the cultural and social sciences. As the implicit basis of the life-world, the everyday constitutes the dynamic of culture. For cultural actors, it is a space both of the unquestioned and the obvious, as well as of meaningful action.

The thematic areas of the everyday and the life-world are various and broadly defined. The current cultural and social scientific research of scientists involved includes city and architecture, mobilities, governmentality, religiosity, locality, and the cultural dimensions of space, border and difference. In parallel to the thematic research on complex areas of everyday culture and life-worlds, there is a focus on the formation of a qualitative, cultural-analytic and ethnographic methodological repertoire that engages with the everyday horizon of meaning in its diversity, processuality, subjectivity and historicity. The emphasis lies on a method that is both appropriate to the subject matter and theoretically driven, and on the (also ethno-psychoanalytic) reflection of this method.

Coordinators
Katharina Eisch-Angus, Johanna Rolshoven