Michel de Certeau - The Practice of Everyday Life - Cultural & Social Theory

The Practice of Everyday Life by Michel de Certeau.

An influential work of modern cultural and social theory, exploring how ordinary people use, adapt and reinterpret the systems, spaces and cultural products that surround them.

De Certeau examines everyday activities such as walking through cities, reading, speaking and consuming popular culture, arguing that people are not simply passive recipients of established structures.

The book develops his influential distinction between "strategies" and "tactics", exploring the small ways individuals navigate and appropriate the world around them.

Includes his well-known discussions of Walking in the City and Reading as Poaching, alongside engagement with thinkers such as Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu.

An important academic text for students and readers interested in cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, urban studies, architecture, media studies and social theory.

University of California Press paperback edition, translated from the French by Steven Rendall.

Good used condition, with normal light cover wear. There are occasional previous-reader pen marks and brackets within the text, examples of which are shown in the photographs.

Collection available in Gorey, Co. Wexford, or postage anywhere in Ireland at the buyer's expense.