Ben Highmore is Reader in Cultural Studies at the University of the West of England, Bristol.

• Preface and acknowledgements; 1. Ways of Operating: Introducing Michel de Certeau's Methodological Imagination; 2. An Epistemological Awakening: History and Writing; 3. The Oceanic Rumble of the Ordinary: Psychoanalysis and Culture; 4. Zones of Silence: Orality, Archives, and Resistance; 5. The Zoo of Everyday Practices: Literature, Narratives, Voices; 6. An Art of Diversion: Cultural Policy and the Counter Public Sphere; 7. Cultural Studies: A Practitioner's Art.

"Highmore's contribution is not a general presentation of de Certeau's thought.  Rather, it is a complex, ambitious, and important study that requires some prior knowledge of de Certeau's major works and a familiarity with the discourses, disciplines, and fields of inquiry that have emerged over the past several decades in the wake of post-structuralism and deconstruction." —Alain Gabon, Virginia Wesleyan College, Substance, #115, Vol. 37, No. 1, 2008