"Everydayness"

I remembered talking about this notion with Sahera on our way back from Vancouver to Seattle in Jnue. We both like the term but not even sure who coined the word.

Interestingly, I revisited this idea in Cities: Reimagining the Urban (Amin and Thrift, 2002, p95). "Everydayness" was introduced as Lefebvre's idea about "spaces of representation, the lived space." As noted, "an everydayness located in Lefebvre's other two terms of the equation of everyday life(spatial practice, the percieved) and the everyday(representations of space, the conceived)which both embrace it and make it possible." (p95)

While i don't think it is necessary to add another term to describe the same notion, I feel like this subtle distinction of the three-"everydayness, everyday life, the everyday" is worth knowing.

BTW, I am going to Hong Kong for my field work tomorrow. I know that Sahera is leaving soon and Andrew has been home, right? Ozge should get most fruitful work done since you will be in the field for that period of time. Anyway, I hope i can try my best to keep field notes and share with you all. Acutally, I talked to some people in Taiwan about urban renewal in Taipei and their interactions with professionals in Hong Kong on this topic. I do have some thoughts, however, not to the point that I can clearly organize them and post them here. I will try to spend more time on it.

Take care, all my friends.