Analysing Everyday Experience Social Research and Political Change

Interest in researching experience continues to grow in sociology, cultural studies, feminist theory and psychology. However there is a crisis over the representation of experience--evident in epistemological debates, in everyday life and in global politics. Could researching experience contribute to creating socio-political change or does it simply open new avenues for post-Fordist self-regulation? Analysing Everyday Experience illustrates the emergence of plural historical actors who disrupt unitary subjectivities, resist univocal integration and refigure the political by remaking everyday experience.

NIAMH STEPHENSON teaches Social Science, Social Theory and Public Health, and Qualitative Research Methods at the School of Public Health & Community Medicine, the University of New South Wales, Australia. DIMITRIS PAPADOPOULOS teaches Theory of the Social Sciences, Critical Psychology, and Social and Cultural Theory at the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, and at the Department of Education and Psychology, Free University of Berlin, Germany.