As we discussed in our post last week, emotions elicited by the current presidential campaign, and the Trump presidency more generally, have penetrated into everyday life quite deeply. The…
Since election season has arrived, we thought we’d take moment to look at how politics figures in the everyday lives of EDLM volunteer writers. Of…
In the study of everyday life, a key concept is the distinction between the “everyday” and the “event.” Events call attention to themselves, are remembered…
Sometimes, major, historical events influence everyday life gradually and in subtle ways. Structural economic changes upend some lives entirely, but for others accrete slowly, in…
The Muncie Public Library Covid-19 Archive, September, 2020 After the SARS COV-2 pandemic hit last spring, Sarah Allison of Ball State University Libraries took note…
Editors note: Today, to mark the end of summer, we publish a second round of our “Summer of Uprising/Pandemic Hundreds”—compressed, miniature essays whose word count…
“Ethnography’s commitment to writing from the ground is an impulse to stay open to what’s in your vicinity. But the ‘ground’ is not just…
Project directors Patrick Collier and Jim Connolly have published an essay detailing some of the thinking behind EDLM as well as a bit about what…
Last June, we shared some of their impressions of how everyday life in Middletown had shifted in the midst of pandemic. Our opinion piece in…
Introduction The summer of 2020 has been like no other. When, in living memory, was everyday life so thoroughly transformed—disrupted—for so many people in so…