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Rio de Janeiro
Urban Life through the Eyes of the City
Häftad, 2019
692 kr
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"Through artistic imaginaries, media productions, social practices and spatial mappings, this book offers an insightful and original contribution to the understanding of Rio de Janeiro, one of the highly contested urban terrains in the world. Offering a rich diversity of examples extracted from …
Imitation, Contagion, Suggestion
On Mimesis and Society
Häftad, 2020
692 kr
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Terrorist attacks seem to mimic other terrorist attacks. Mass shootings appear to mimic previous mass shootings. Financial traders seem to mimic other traders. It is not a novel observation that people often imitate others. Some might even suggest that mimesis is at the core of human interaction. …
Assembling and Governing Habits
Av Tony Bennett, Ben Dibley m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2513 kr
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The increasing significance of managing or changing habits is evident across a range of pressing contemporary issues: climate change, waste management, travel practices, and crowd control. Assembling and Governing Habits engages with the diverse ways in which habits are governed through the …
Assembling and Governing Habits
Av Tony Bennett, Ben Dibley m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
648 kr
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The increasing significance of managing or changing habits is evident across a range of pressing contemporary issues: climate change, waste management, travel practices, and crowd control. Assembling and Governing Habits engages with the diverse ways in which habits are governed through the …
Enter Culture, Exit Arts?
The Transformation of Cultural Hierarchies in European Newspaper Culture Sections, 1960–2010
Av Semi Purhonen, Riie Heikkilä m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
692 kr
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Key debates of contemporary cultural sociology – the rise of the ‘cultural omnivore’, the fate of classical ‘highbrow’ culture, the popularization, commercialization and globalization of culture – deal with temporal changes. Yet, systematic research about these processes is scarce due to the lack …
Lived Economies of Default
Consumer Credit, Debt Collection and the Capture of Affect
Av Joe Deville
Häftad, 2019
721 kr
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Consumer credit borrowing – using credit cards, store cards and personal loans – is an important and routine part of many of our lives. But what happens when these everyday forms of borrowing go ‘bad’, when people start to default on their loans and when they cannot, or will not, repay? It is this …
Routledge Companion to Bourdieu's 'Distinction'
Av Philippe Coulangeon, Julien Duval
Häftad, 2019
692 kr
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This edited collection explores the genesis of Bourdieu's classical book Distinction and its international career in contemporary Social Sciences. It includes contributions from contemporary sociologists from diverse countries who question the theoretical legacy of this book in various fields and …
Industry and Work in Contemporary Capitalism
Global Models, Local Lives?
Av Victoria Goddard, Susana Narotzky
Häftad, 2019
692 kr
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Throughout history and in every geographical location, the rise and fall of industry, which impact the fate of large populations, are tied to the development and cultural entanglement of particular models that are articulated with political power. Models are understood as knowledge devices – …
Cultural Pedagogies and Human Conduct
Av Megan Watkins, Greg Noble m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
672 kr
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Pedagogy is often glossed as the ‘art and science of teaching’ but this focus typically ties it to the instructional practices of formalised schooling. Like the emerging work on ‘public pedagogies’, the notion of cultural pedagogies signals the importance of the pedagogic in realms other than …
Culture as a Vocation
Sociology of career choices in cultural management
Häftad, 2019
692 kr
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Vocational occupations are attractive not so much for their material rewards as for the prestige and self-fulfillment they confer. They require a strong personal commitment, which can be subjectively experienced in terms of passion and selflessness. The choice of a career in the cultural sector …
Markets and the Arts of Attachment
Av Franck Cochoy, Joe Deville m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
721 kr
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The collection explores how sentiment and relations are organised in consumer markets. Social studies of economies and markets have much more to offer than simply adding some ‘context’, ‘culture’ or ‘soul’ to the analysis of economic practices. As this collection showcases, studying markets …
Infrastructures and Social Complexity
A Companion
Av Penelope Harvey, Casper Jensen m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
721 kr
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Contemporary forms of infrastructural development herald alternative futures through their incorporation of digital technologies, mobile capital, international politics and the promises and fears of enhanced connectivity. In tandem with increasing concerns about climate change and the anthropocene, …
Film Criticism as a Cultural Institution
Häftad, 2019
721 kr
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At the beginning of the 21st century film criticism was described as in crisis. The decline of print journalism, a series of lay-offs of prominent critics, and the rise of "amateur" reviewing online spurred a conversation about the decline, even death, of film criticism. This discourse flourished …
Persistence of Taste
Art, Museums and Everyday Life After Bourdieu
Av Malcolm Quinn, Dave Beech m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
742 kr
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This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of the social practice of taste in the wake of Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology of taste. For the first time, this book unites sociologists and other social scientists with artists and curators, art theorists and art educators, and art, design and cultural …
World Laid Waste?
Responding to the Social, Cultural and Political Consequences of Globalisation
Av Francis Dodsworth, Antonia Walford
Häftad, 2019
721 kr
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Globalisation and neo-liberalism have seen the rise of new international powers, increasingly interlinked economies, and mass urbanisation. The internet, mobile communications and mass migration have transformed lives around the planet. For some, this has been positive and liberating, but it has …
Speculative Research
The Lure of Possible Futures
Av Alex Wilkie, Martin Savransky m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
721 kr
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Is another future possible? So called ‘late modernity’ is marked by the escalating rise in and proliferation of uncertainties and unforeseen events brought about by the interplay between and patterning of social–natural, techno–scientific and political-economic developments. The future has indeed …
Culture, Class, Distinction
Av Tony Bennett, Mike Savage m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
2513 kr
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Choice Recommended Title, February 2010Culture, Class, Distinction is major contribution to international debates regarding the role of cultural capital in relation to modern forms of inequality. Drawing on a national study of the organisation of cultural practices in contemporary Britain, the …
Media and Social Theory
Av David Hesmondhalgh, Jason Toynbee
Inbunden, 2008
3067 kr
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Media studies needs richer and livelier intellectual resources. This book brings together major and emerging international media analysts to consider key processes of media change, using a number of critical perspectives. Case studies range from reality television to professional journalism, from …
Media and Social Theory
Av David Hesmondhalgh, Jason Toynbee
Häftad, 2008
823 kr
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Media studies needs richer and livelier intellectual resources. This book brings together major and emerging international media analysts to consider key processes of media change, using a number of critical perspectives. Case studies range from reality television to professional journalism, from …
Material Powers
Cultural Studies, History and the Material Turn
Av Tony Bennett, Patrick Joyce
Inbunden, 2010
2588 kr
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This edited collection is a major contribution to the current development of a ‘material turn’ in the social sciences and humanities. It does so by exploring new understandings of how power is made up and exercised by examining the role of material infrastructures in the organization of state power …
Cultural Analysis and Bourdieu’s Legacy
Settling Accounts and Developing Alternatives
Av Elizabeth Silva, Alan Warde
Inbunden, 2010
2513 kr
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Cultural Analysis and Bourdieu’s Legacy explores the achievements and limitations of a Bourdieusian approach to cultural analysis through original contributions from distinguished international scholars. This edited collection offers sustained critical engagement, substantiated by new empirical …
Theorizing Cultural Work
Labour, Continuity and Change in the Cultural and Creative Industries
Av Mark Banks, Rosalind Gill m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
2513 kr
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In recent years, cultural work has engaged the interest of scholars from a broad range of social science and humanities disciplines. The debate in this ‘turn to cultural work’ has largely been based around evaluating its advantages and disadvantages: its freedoms and its constraints, its informal …
Diasporas and Diplomacy
Cosmopolitan contact zones at the BBC World Service (1932–2012)
Av Marie Gillespie, Alban Webb
Inbunden, 2012
2513 kr
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Diasporas and Diplomacy analyzes the exercise of British ‘soft power’ through the BBC’s foreign language services, and the diplomatic role played by their diasporic broadcasters. The book offers the first historical and comparative analysis of the ‘corporate cosmopolitanism’ that has characterized …
Topologies of Power
Beyond territory and networks
Av John Allen
Inbunden, 2016
2513 kr
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Topologies of Power amounts to a radical departure in the way that power and space have been understood. It calls into question the very idea that power is simply extended across a given territory or network, and argues that power today has a new found ‘reach’. Topological shifts have subtly …
Topologies of Power
Beyond territory and networks
Av John Allen
Häftad, 2016
765 kr
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Topologies of Power amounts to a radical departure in the way that power and space have been understood. It calls into question the very idea that power is simply extended across a given territory or network, and argues that power today has a new found ‘reach’. Topological shifts have subtly …
Shanghai Expo
An International Forum on the Future of Cities
Av Tim Winter
Inbunden, 2012
2513 kr
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In 2010 Shanghai hosted the largest, most spectacular and most expensive expo ever. Attracting a staggering 73 million visitors, and costing around US$45 billion dollars, Shanghai Expo broke the records in the history of world's fairs and universal expositions. With more than half of the world’s …
Cultural Analysis and Bourdieu’s Legacy
Settling Accounts and Developing Alternatives
Av Elizabeth Silva, Alan Warde
Häftad, 2012
910 kr
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Cultural Analysis and Bourdieu’s Legacy explores the achievements and limitations of a Bourdieusian approach to cultural analysis through original contributions from distinguished international scholars. This edited collection offers sustained critical engagement, substantiated by new empirical …
Milk, Modernity and the Making of the Human
Purifying the Social
Av Richie Nimmo
Inbunden, 2010
2513 kr
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This book undertakes a critique of the pervasive notion that human beings are separate from and elevated above the nonhuman world and explores its role in the constitution of modernity.The book presents a socio-material analysis of the British milk industry in the late nineteenth and early …
Culture, Class, Distinction
Av Tony Bennett, Mike Savage m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
852 kr
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Culture, Class, Distinction is major contribution to international debates regarding the role of cultural capital in relation to modern forms of inequality. Drawing on a national study of the organisation of cultural practices in contemporary Britain, the authors review Bourdieu’s classic study of …
Rio de Janeiro
Urban Life through the Eyes of the City
Inbunden, 2014
2513 kr
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"Through artistic imaginaries, media productions, social practices and spatial mappings, this book offers an insightful and original contribution to the understanding of Rio de Janeiro, one of the highly contested urban terrains in the world. Offering a rich diversity of examples extracted from …
