HIGHMORE, Ben, Everyday Life and Cultural Theory, New York, Routledge, 2002, 200 p.

p. 12: [I]t is the street rather than the home that is seen as the privileged sphere of everyday life.

p. 17: [W]hile it is common practice to describe everyday life as a scene of relentless tedium, this tradition has often tried to register the everyday as the marvellous and the extraordinary (oar atleast to combine dialectically the everyday as both extraordinary and tedious). Similarly. if it is more usual to associate the everyday with the self-evident and the taken-for-granted, this tradition has stressed its opacity and the difficulty of adequately attending to it. This has resulted in a concern with representational forms (montage, for instance) that can seem the very opposite of what might be thought of as an 'everyday' style of presentation. Another example of a general recalcitrance towards more traditional meanings of 'the everyday' is the refusal to reduce everyday life to an arena for the reproduction of dominant social relations. While this is an important focus in some of the theories that I discuss (Lefebvre, for instance), much more stress is placed on the everyday as a site of resistance, revolution and transformation.

*Highmore souligne la nature souvent paradoxale des approches sur le quotidien: celles-ci reposent parfois sur des techniques ou des principes de reproduction ou de représentation qui se situent à l'opposé de ce qui définit le quotidien, le rendent même parfois étranger ou figé, le dénaturent.