Diy: The Search for Control and Self-Reliance in the 21st Century

by Kevin Wehr

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From the driveway mechanic to the backyard gardener, many diverse people are "doing it themselves" by building or repairing the stuff of their daily lives without the aid of experts. Do It Yourself uses Habermas's colonization of the lifeworld as a frame and mobilizes Marx's concepts of alienation and mystification to examine how social behaviors can be a conscious reply to a complex and fast-moving world, a nostalgia for simpler times past, or...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0415508711

ISBN13:9780415508711

Release Date:May 2012

Publisher:Routledge

Length:84 Pages

Weight:0.39 lbs.

Dimensions:0.3" x 6.8" x 9.8"

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Self Help Self-Help Self-Help & Psychology Social Science Social Sciences

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