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The Political Theory of Everyday Life<\/h1>\n

Derek Edyvane and Demetris Tillyris<\/strong><\/p>\n

University Place 6.210 (hybrid)\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

In her book, Ordinary Vices<\/em> (1984), Judith Shklar identified the \u2018ordinary\u2019 as a neglected domain of political activity and interest. Shklar wrote of the \u2018democracy of everyday life\u2019 that typically proceeds outside of formal political institutions and beyond the purview of so much institutionally-focused political theory. More recently, there has been a growth of interest among political theorists around the ordinary and everyday dimensions of political life. We see this, for instance, in Danielle Allen\u2019s work on the everyday sacrifices of citizens, in Bonnie Honig\u2019s engagement with the \u2018public things\u2019 of democratic life, in Michael Ignatieff\u2019s assessment of the \u2018ordinary virtues\u2019, in Nancy Rosenblum\u2019s discussion of the ethics of the \u2018good neighbour\u2019, in James C. Scott\u2019s analysis of \u2018everyday resistance\u2019, in Marc Stears\u2019 articulation of \u2018ordinary life\u2019 as a resource for the revitalisation of democracy, and in Bernardo Zacka\u2019s examination of the everyday ethics of \u2018street-level bureaucrats\u2019. Within the domain of the ordinary we find not only a vast and underexplored terrain for political theorising, but also a distinctive methodological puzzle concerning how best to conceptualise and investigate the everyday. Indeed, the work cited is striking for its methodological eclecticism and innovation – its willingness to move beyond the conventional methods of political theory to engage with empirical case studies, ethnography, history, art, film, and literature.<\/p>\n

It is the aim of this workshop to explore this broad cluster of themes. Possible topics might include, but are by no means limited to, the following:<\/p>\n