Fiske, John

Bio Sketch

John Fiske (1939–2021) was a British cultural studies scholar, best known for his work on television and popular culture. His essay "Cultural Studies and the Culture of Everyday Life" (1992) links the everyday to culture, focusing on "the everyday culture of the people in capitalist societies" and drawing on Bourdieu's habitus to treat the everyday as a "densely textured symbolic environment." He matters to Geoffrey's research as a cultural-studies voice who reads the everyday through the place/space distinction and the habitus.

Key Works

• "Cultural Studies and the Culture of Everyday Life" (1992) — the everyday as textured; the habitus; the place/space distinction; the culture of the people in capitalist societies.

Key Concepts

Concepts associated with this author that have pages in this wiki:

• Everyday Life — the everyday as a "densely textured symbolic environment"; the habitus.

Relevance to Geoffrey's Research

Fiske's reading of the everyday through Bourdieu's habitus connects directly to Upton's materialist account of the everyday in Geoffrey's framework. His retention of the place/space distinction (from de Certeau) and his focus on "the everyday culture of the people in capitalist societies" give a cultural-studies inflection to the everyday that complements the more philosophical accounts of Lefebvre, de Certeau, and Felski.

Source Support

Source notes in this wiki that draw on Fiske:

• Culturally 'Doped' or Not? (Conroy) — the ethnography of everyday life; the habitus; the place/space distinction.