Manning, Nick;
Birk, Rasmus;
Rose, Nikolas;
(2022)
Niche Sociality: Approaching Adversity in Everyday Life.
Sociology
10.1177/00380385221094770.
(In press).
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Abstract
How should sociologists understand the everyday lives of those living in adversity, coping with the experience of structural violence? In this article, focusing on the urban experience, we suggest a perspective on ‘everyday life’ that can encompass corporeal, mental, relational and social dimensions, which we term ‘niche sociality’. First, we use Gibson’s niches and affordances to enrich the post-representationalist understanding of human beings as embodied/cultural/environmentally embedded organisms. Second, we enrich Gibson’s niches and affordances with theories for ‘small-scale’ sociality drawn from social practice theory and interaction ritual chains. Third, we illustrate the productivity of these ideas throughout the article, by grounding our conceptual work in empirical examples that analyse the everyday lives and mental life of migrant workers in Shanghai. Niche sociality, we argue, is a way of framing the experience of the everyday, a perspective that could – perhaps should – provoke novel ecosocial studies of adversity.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Niche Sociality: Approaching Adversity in Everyday Life |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/00380385221094770 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1177/00380385221094770 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. The images or other third-party material in this article are included in the Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
| Keywords: | Social Sciences, Sociology, adversity, affordance, everyday, mental, migrants, niche, practices, Shanghai, sociality, urban, MENTAL-HEALTH, AFFORDANCES, COMMUNITY, ENVIRONMENT, SOCIOLOGY, VIOLENCE, GOFFMAN, CARE |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > SHS Faculty Office UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > SHS Faculty Office > UCL Institute for Advanced Studies |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10161546 |
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