The urban everyday: social lives and relationships

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Abstract

With this chapter we showcase the importance of everyday life for the study of cities. Drawing on feminist scholarship and activism, we explore how everyday life is a significant realm in the study of urban environments. More specifically, we illustrate how cities and urbanities are inherently shaped by socio-spatial relationships. We outline the features of a feminist approach to everyday life, with a focus on reading cities relationally. This involves focusing on everyday social lives and relationships, and how a feminist relational approach centres relations-in-space. This in turn gives rise to understanding everyday life of cities as spaces of social relations, difference, and infrastructures. Bringing these ideas into practice, we provide examples of everyday social lives in crisis, and the ways in which contemporary urban crises expose gender and social differences. Featuring studies of chronic illness and disability, we show readers how crises can be understood as a reconfiguration of everyday relations. To close, we highlight further areas for urban research on the everyday, and gesture to methods and approaches that help ground this work within lived experience.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationHandbook on Gender and Cities
EditorsLinda Peake, Anindita Datta, Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin
PublisherEdward Elgar
Pages347-355
ISBN (Electronic)9781786436139, 9781786436139
ISBN (Print)9781786436122
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 11 Oct 2024

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