Möblierter Sinn. Städtische Wohn- und Lebensstile
(Kulturstudien. Bibliothek der Kulturgeschichte Sonderband 24)
Wien: Böhlau-Verlag 1998
414 pp., DM 98,-; ISBN 3-205-98566-4
"Furnished" meaning. Urban living and life-styles
The authoress opines that living (creation and styles of homes) and "private" lifestyles are primary and major dimensions of cultural production, since they aim at the regular, normal and the average, and thus show the living of the everyday life and professional life, the private and the public, which are inextricably intertwined.
The first chapters discuss the two time notions of "postmodernity" and "lifestyle", followed by an empirical study of urban lifestyles in the Austrian city of Graz. The authoress asks how the "style of living" (in houses, apartments) is equivalent to the broader notion of lifestyle, and how it is being constituted internally, and by influences from the outside. On the background of Bourdieu"s work Katschnig-Fasch tries to find out whether class is still influential and determining, or if lifestyles are to be understood as "monadized" and atomized expressions of individual psychic dispositions. The empirical part of the study is being introduced by reflections on the relevance, influence and functions of space, and the historical-spatial meaning for the "being" of the city as a "sociotope" of multicultural lifestyles in general, and a concrete assessment of the political context of the city of Graz influencing lifestyles.
Keywords: furniture and culture, lifestyle in cities, urban lifestyle, taste, habitus, postmodernism, city and culture, Bourdieu, P., identity, cultural identity
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