To remain unconsumed by consumer society was the goal of the first volume. Delving even deeper, this volume develops a social history of "making do" based on microhistories that move from the private sphere of dwelling, cooking and homemaking to the public experience of living in a neighbourhood).
"De Certeau's book is to be praised for setting out some of the practical procedures, in which we are all implicated, that are used to invent what appears to us as our reality, and for finding at least some ways in which the totalitarian nature of our current systems of sense-making can be subverted."-John Shotter, New Ideas in Psychology







