In sociology and social anthropology, the everyday – that is, the continuing, the ordinary – and the event – the momentary and the extraordinary – appear to share a bond. This volume explores the complex and crucial relationship that exists between the event and the everyday as a methodological perspective, and highlights their close ties and significance in capturing social realities.
The contributors study contexts that are diverse and empirically rich:
- A media comedic event,
- Kashmir wracked by conflict and natural calamity, where both instances highlight the relationship between the extraordinary and everyday life;
- The event of Tibetan exile, and how the memory of this rupture plays out in the lives of later generations;
- How an event can serve as a technique of knowing larger social constructs, such as the violence and injustice that frame certain social relations.
Through their work, the authors show how the extraordinary and the ordinary are very closely connected.