Looking at how victims conduct everyday life

Abstract

The present chapter is guided by a double search: first, my search for the victims' Conduct of Everyday Life, hidden between the differences of individual and sociological perspectives and behind a curtain of narration and specific attributions of meaning and different assumptions; second, the victims' struggle to cope with their everyday lives, combining the singular and overwhelming with the ordinary and normal. Hence, in the first part of this chapter, I will reflect on narrative moments regarding everyday life, following the direction of “narrative sociology” (Oltra et al. 2004) and, in the second part, I will describe the different expressions of the victims' Conducts of Everyday Life.