Making sense of politics in public spaces

the phenomenology of political experiences and activities

Daniel Cefaï

pp. 135-157

in: Lester Embree (ed), Schutzian social science, Berlin, Springer, 1999

Abstract

This chapter seeks to describe how ordinary actors define and master their political situatedness, build their political universes, decide what is relevant in various ways, reason about politics, how they are motivated, and how they act.