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A review of Ben Highmore, Ordinary Lives: Studies in the Everyday (Routledge, 2011).

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  • Cultural studies is founded upon a commitment to the ordinary, to explore, and perhaps most importantly to take seriously, what has been dismissed as trivial or mundane. As pioneering critics such as Raymond Williams and Richard Hoggart recognised, there was already a well‐established tradition of cultural analysis in place when they began writing in the nineteen‐fifties

  • The radicalism of the new field did not lie in its concern with culture, which writers such as Matthew Arnold, T.S

  • Eliot and the Leavises had already recognised as a legitimate subject of study, but in its insistence, as Williams famously observed, that it was ‘ordinary’,1 something possessed and produced by all classes, not just an elite, something embedded in everyday life rather than defined by its separation from it

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Cultural studies is founded upon a commitment to the ordinary, to explore, and perhaps most importantly to take seriously, what has been dismissed as trivial or mundane. Ben Highmore Ordinary Lives: Studies in the Everyday Routledge, Oxford, 2011 ISBN 9780415461870 RRP $31.95

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