Constructing Transnational Studies
... Transnational scholarship is not entirely new nor does it argue for jettisoning completely related research paradigms and perspectives. But, as Hannerz (1996) notes, it is a response to both strengths and weaknesses in contemporary scholarship: I am rather uncomfortable with the rather prodigious us ...
... Transnational scholarship is not entirely new nor does it argue for jettisoning completely related research paradigms and perspectives. But, as Hannerz (1996) notes, it is a response to both strengths and weaknesses in contemporary scholarship: I am rather uncomfortable with the rather prodigious us ...
Biographical Analysis as an Interdisciplinary
... In this way biography is conceived as a ‘social creation/construction’, which ‘constitutes both social reality and the subjects’ worlds of knowledge and experience, and which is constantly affirmed and transformed within the dialectical relationship between life history knowledge and experiences and ...
... In this way biography is conceived as a ‘social creation/construction’, which ‘constitutes both social reality and the subjects’ worlds of knowledge and experience, and which is constantly affirmed and transformed within the dialectical relationship between life history knowledge and experiences and ...
3. The biographical research perspective in the
... In this way biography is conceived as a ‘social creation/construction’, which ‘constitutes both social reality and the subjects’ worlds of knowledge and experience, and which is constantly affirmed and transformed within the dialectical relationship between life history knowledge and experiences and ...
... In this way biography is conceived as a ‘social creation/construction’, which ‘constitutes both social reality and the subjects’ worlds of knowledge and experience, and which is constantly affirmed and transformed within the dialectical relationship between life history knowledge and experiences and ...
Fulltext - Brunel University Research Archive
... paradigms with distinctive theoretical traditions (some retrospectively constructed), canonical authors, and specialized jargon. Cross-cutting these divergences, broadly assumed—if continuously revised—central theoretical concepts have been ditched or dismantled in the search for sharper, more manag ...
... paradigms with distinctive theoretical traditions (some retrospectively constructed), canonical authors, and specialized jargon. Cross-cutting these divergences, broadly assumed—if continuously revised—central theoretical concepts have been ditched or dismantled in the search for sharper, more manag ...
The discourses of OERs: how flat is this world?
... the critical study of language in social practices. More specifically, CDA is concerned with the study of language and discourses from a social perspective, and how language figures in processes of social change. Kress (1990) argues that CDA has an overtly political agenda and it is what differentia ...
... the critical study of language in social practices. More specifically, CDA is concerned with the study of language and discourses from a social perspective, and how language figures in processes of social change. Kress (1990) argues that CDA has an overtly political agenda and it is what differentia ...
Urban Metabolism at UCL – A working paper
... A total of 16 interviews were conducted throughout the summer and spring 2011 with academic staff and research students at UCL, whose work is either directly or indirectly underpinned ...
... A total of 16 interviews were conducted throughout the summer and spring 2011 with academic staff and research students at UCL, whose work is either directly or indirectly underpinned ...
Papers for Nov 05 - Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK
... (c) I have responded to two national consultations since the June committee meeting. The first was an ESRC consultation on bibliometric methods and the second the HEFCE consultation on the panel and sub-panel draft criteria and working methods. Although many departments chose not to contribute thei ...
... (c) I have responded to two national consultations since the June committee meeting. The first was an ESRC consultation on bibliometric methods and the second the HEFCE consultation on the panel and sub-panel draft criteria and working methods. Although many departments chose not to contribute thei ...
full article
... the indifference Simmel described was based on the equidistant social relations and interpersonal nonchalance cultivated and institutionalized in urban society, we now ...
... the indifference Simmel described was based on the equidistant social relations and interpersonal nonchalance cultivated and institutionalized in urban society, we now ...
Deleuze and the Anthropology of Becoming
... order to reassert the symbiotic relationship between close empirical engagement with people (through fieldwork) and theoretical innovation in anthropology. We are not advocating another philosophical scheme to be confirmed by the figures we bring out of the field. As John Borneman and Abdellah Hammo ...
... order to reassert the symbiotic relationship between close empirical engagement with people (through fieldwork) and theoretical innovation in anthropology. We are not advocating another philosophical scheme to be confirmed by the figures we bring out of the field. As John Borneman and Abdellah Hammo ...
The consolations of`neoliberalism`
... different models of causality and determination; different models of social relations and agency; and different normative understandings of political power. We should not finesse these differences away by presuming that the two approaches converge around a common real-world referent, so-called “neol ...
... different models of causality and determination; different models of social relations and agency; and different normative understandings of political power. We should not finesse these differences away by presuming that the two approaches converge around a common real-world referent, so-called “neol ...
Bibliography - University of South Australia
... out the uninitiated) whereas other knowing is not valorised in this manner and consequently not regarded as important, not connected with public status and power. Bourdieu points to the arbitrariness of much of this classification as well as its relation to very different post school life choices. P ...
... out the uninitiated) whereas other knowing is not valorised in this manner and consequently not regarded as important, not connected with public status and power. Bourdieu points to the arbitrariness of much of this classification as well as its relation to very different post school life choices. P ...
Aalborg Universitet Practices, The Built Environment and Sustainability
... Processes of change and intervention (a) In our opinion the ‘ideal type’ formulation of practice-as-entity is more deterministic and loses much of the iterative quality that is key for understanding practice dynamics. Nevertheless, we suggest that such ‘ideal type’ constructs have an effect in the r ...
... Processes of change and intervention (a) In our opinion the ‘ideal type’ formulation of practice-as-entity is more deterministic and loses much of the iterative quality that is key for understanding practice dynamics. Nevertheless, we suggest that such ‘ideal type’ constructs have an effect in the r ...
Meatify the Weak! Cannibalism and (Post) Colonial
... (racial) minority groups within their respective countries for a long time. Once in a while we read small newspaper articles in which cannibalism is related to extreme famine, to sectarian religious ceremonies and slightly odd singular events (think for instance of Armin Meiwes, the 'Rotenburg Canni ...
... (racial) minority groups within their respective countries for a long time. Once in a while we read small newspaper articles in which cannibalism is related to extreme famine, to sectarian religious ceremonies and slightly odd singular events (think for instance of Armin Meiwes, the 'Rotenburg Canni ...
Subject and Subject position in Laclau`s discourse theory Allan
... social objectivity. Rather subjectivity appears in all the places where a distance or a lack is experienced. According to Lacanian theory, our very conception of self-hood' is based on a traumatic experience of lack (Fink 1995). Subjectivity is precisely (based on) this constitutive experience of 'n ...
... social objectivity. Rather subjectivity appears in all the places where a distance or a lack is experienced. According to Lacanian theory, our very conception of self-hood' is based on a traumatic experience of lack (Fink 1995). Subjectivity is precisely (based on) this constitutive experience of 'n ...
Terms
... individuals and sociopolitical and economic processes as well as on the cultural meaning of the urban environment. The newest areas of inquiry include the study of urban space and time, metropolitan knowledge, and ethnoaesthetics. INTRODUCTION Why has the city been undertheorized in anthropology? Ur ...
... individuals and sociopolitical and economic processes as well as on the cultural meaning of the urban environment. The newest areas of inquiry include the study of urban space and time, metropolitan knowledge, and ethnoaesthetics. INTRODUCTION Why has the city been undertheorized in anthropology? Ur ...
Disasters can lift veils : five issues for sociological disaster studies
... To ask who, during the onslaught of Haiyan and its aftermath had the power is a subject of intense debate, but an important one, as it is only by getting to the heart of this question can we allocate responsibility and assign blame. In spite of the differences in thematic focus between functionalism ...
... To ask who, during the onslaught of Haiyan and its aftermath had the power is a subject of intense debate, but an important one, as it is only by getting to the heart of this question can we allocate responsibility and assign blame. In spite of the differences in thematic focus between functionalism ...
Copyright notice: this is a non-finalised version of a chapter
... a person’s actions supposes that said person’s perceptions bear significantly on the actions s/he performs. A more sophisticated defence of the perception-independency characteristic would interpret ‘people’s perceptions’ in terms of the observer’s perceptions at the time of observing. But even if w ...
... a person’s actions supposes that said person’s perceptions bear significantly on the actions s/he performs. A more sophisticated defence of the perception-independency characteristic would interpret ‘people’s perceptions’ in terms of the observer’s perceptions at the time of observing. But even if w ...
For a Relational Musicology - American Musicological Society
... justifications for a redistribution of attention to new objects of study, new perspectives on old disciplinary objects, and new conceptual and methodological resources relevant to all musics. Specifically, I will argue with reference to my own and other contemporary research that it is now timely to ...
... justifications for a redistribution of attention to new objects of study, new perspectives on old disciplinary objects, and new conceptual and methodological resources relevant to all musics. Specifically, I will argue with reference to my own and other contemporary research that it is now timely to ...
this article - International Journal of Mass Emergencies
... The importance of history is also strongly present in what has been termed the Access Model of disaster causation proposed by Amartya Sen in Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation (1981). Here vulnerability is regarded as generated by the difficulties some social groups or fami ...
... The importance of history is also strongly present in what has been termed the Access Model of disaster causation proposed by Amartya Sen in Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation (1981). Here vulnerability is regarded as generated by the difficulties some social groups or fami ...
here - Centre for Research on Socio
... An obvious choice, perhaps, but there are still unspoken ways in which its hierarchical view of culture might frame contemporary debate and other key thinkers in cultural studies, for example, Raymond Williams. It might be useful to think in detail about the earlier thought on culture and community ...
... An obvious choice, perhaps, but there are still unspoken ways in which its hierarchical view of culture might frame contemporary debate and other key thinkers in cultural studies, for example, Raymond Williams. It might be useful to think in detail about the earlier thought on culture and community ...
Modern China - Semantic Scholar
... national and the subnational scale. This field, now referred to as “traditional regional geography,” depended at mid-century largely on a descriptive methodology focused on diverse and unique regional characteristics that produced regional coherence and regional meaning. The approach paid attention ...
... national and the subnational scale. This field, now referred to as “traditional regional geography,” depended at mid-century largely on a descriptive methodology focused on diverse and unique regional characteristics that produced regional coherence and regional meaning. The approach paid attention ...
The Nature of Social Science Research
... Because our social world is all around us, it is often assumed that explaining social phenomena is just a matter of common sense. Yet being a member of a society definitely does not equate to an automatic understanding of our social reality. Indeed, as outlined in the previous paragraph on cultural ...
... Because our social world is all around us, it is often assumed that explaining social phenomena is just a matter of common sense. Yet being a member of a society definitely does not equate to an automatic understanding of our social reality. Indeed, as outlined in the previous paragraph on cultural ...
Subject Benchmark Statement: Anthropology
... graduates in anthropology in the UK, particularly in relation to their critical engagement with the subject. While the benchmark standards themselves have not been substantially altered, it was felt that the distinction between threshold and typical achievement presented together with the benchmark ...
... graduates in anthropology in the UK, particularly in relation to their critical engagement with the subject. While the benchmark standards themselves have not been substantially altered, it was felt that the distinction between threshold and typical achievement presented together with the benchmark ...
Mundane
... development of computer technology, for example as an end in itself (engineering research), as an element in work practice (instrumental, applied or economic research) or as an aspect of communicative social practices more generally (research on media, communication and society). Such collaboration ...
... development of computer technology, for example as an end in itself (engineering research), as an element in work practice (instrumental, applied or economic research) or as an aspect of communicative social practices more generally (research on media, communication and society). Such collaboration ...