DIY: The Search for Control and Self-Reliance in the 21st Century

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Cultural Studies, Customs & Traditions, Sociology
Cover of the book DIY: The Search for Control and Self-Reliance in the 21st Century by Kevin Wehr, Taylor and Francis
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Author: Kevin Wehr ISBN: 9781136449482
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: July 3, 2013
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: Kevin Wehr
ISBN: 9781136449482
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: July 3, 2013
Imprint: Routledge
Language: English

From the driveway mechanic to the backyard gardener, many diverse people are "doing it themselves" by building or repairing the stuff of their daily lives without the aid of experts. Do It Yourself uses Habermas’s colonization of the lifeworld as a frame and mobilizes Marx’s concepts of alienation and mystification to examine how social behaviors can be a conscious reply to a complex and fast-moving world, a nostalgia for simpler times past, or a just an economic impulse. Each main chapter is anchored by an extended empirical example: back-to-the-land, home-schooling, and self-government.

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From the driveway mechanic to the backyard gardener, many diverse people are "doing it themselves" by building or repairing the stuff of their daily lives without the aid of experts. Do It Yourself uses Habermas’s colonization of the lifeworld as a frame and mobilizes Marx’s concepts of alienation and mystification to examine how social behaviors can be a conscious reply to a complex and fast-moving world, a nostalgia for simpler times past, or a just an economic impulse. Each main chapter is anchored by an extended empirical example: back-to-the-land, home-schooling, and self-government.

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