Caviar and Friendship

Sensational Trials and the Reinvention of Public Space

Bibliographic Data

ID2641894
AuthorsNicola Evans (0000-0001-5154-0478)
Year2013
Volume11
Issue1
Pages52-70
Publication date2013-08-12
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCultural Studies Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1446-8123 • E-ISSN: 1837-8692
PublisherUniversity of Technology, Sydney (UTS) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5130/csr.v11i1.3445
OpenAlexW2000304643
LanguageEN
References cited10

Sensational trials are a venue for the performance of social knowledge-the kind of knowledge that does not regularly make an appearance on the front pages of national newspapers. if sensational trials routinely catapult private matters into the public sphere, it is less such exciting revelations that concern me here, than the dross kicked up in their wake. Sensational trials, I contend, are a point of entry into everyday life, that far more elusive zone of ordinary beliefs and practices situated between the institution and the bedroom, in the interstices of the scripted and chronicled domains of private and public life. To address the everyday is to confront those undocumented procedures and forms of knowledge that exist beyond the realm of official discourse, practices that cultural theorists are increasingly eager to explore and increasingly sceptical of finding. As Barry Sandywell recently observed, 'Like the omnipollent term "community", "everyday life" is in continuous use within lay and theoretical discourse and yet continuously evades definition. Perhaps ... we should ask "where is everyday life"?' This paper argues that one answer to this question lies in the study of sensational trials

Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Everyday life · Institution · Media studies · Newspaper · Political science · Politics · Public sphere · Realm · Skepticism · Social science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Law · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Social and Cultural Dynamics

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