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Format
Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
324
Utgivningsdatum
2016-07-25
Förlag
Mattering Press
Medarbetare
Guggenheim, Michael / Hrdlikov, Zuzana
Illustrationer
black & white illustrations
Dimensioner
229 x 152 x 19 mm
Vikt
477 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
402:B&W 6 x 9 in or 229 x 152 mm Perfect Bound on Creme w/Matte Lam
ISBN
9780993144943

Practising Comparison

Logics, Relations, Collaborations

Häftad,  Engelska, 2016-07-25
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This book compares things, objects, concepts, and ideas. It is also about the practical acts of doing comparison. Comparison is not something that exists in the world, but a particular kind of activity.

Agents of various kinds compare by placing things next to one another, by using software programs and other tools, and by simply looking in certain ways. Comparing like this is an everyday practice. But in the social sciences, comparing often becomes more burdensome, more complex, and more questions are asked of it.

How, then, do social scientists compare? What role do funders, their tools, and databases play in social scientific comparisons? Which sorts of objects do they choose to compare and how do they decide which comparisons are meaningful? Doing comparison in the social sciences, it emerges, is a practice weighed down by a history in which comparison was seen as problematic. As it plays out in the present, this history encounters a range of other agents also involved in doing comparison who may challenge the comparisons of social scientists themselves.

This book introduces these questions through a varied range of reports, auto-ethnographies, and theoretical interventions that compare and analyse these different and often intersecting comparisons. Its goal is to begin a move away from the critique of comparison and towards a better comparative practice, guided not by abstract principles, but a deeper understanding of the challenges of practising comparison.
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1. introduction: the practices and infrastructures of comparison

Joe Deville, Michael Guggenheim, Zuzana Hrdliková

2. comparative research: beyond linear-causal explanation

Monika Krause

3. cross comparison: comparisons across architectural displays of colonial power

Alice Santiago Faria

4. same, same but different: provoking relations, assembling the comparator

Joe Deville, Michael Guggenheim, Zuzana Hrdliková

5.pulling oneself out of the traps of comparison: an autoethnography of a european project

Madeleine Akrich and Vololona Rabeharisoa

6. frame against the grain: asymmetries, interference, and the politics of eu comparison

Tereza Stöckelová

7. lateral comparisons

Christopher Gad and Casper Bruun Jensen

8. comparative tinkering with care moves

Peter A. Lutz

9. comparing comparisons: on rankings and accounting in hospitals and universities

Sarah de Rijcke, Iris Wallenburg, Paul Wouters, Roland Bal

10. steve jobs, terrorists, gentlemen, and punks: tracing strange comparisons of biohackers

Morgan Meyer

11. afterword: spaces of comparison

Jennifer Robinson