Cultures Without Culturalism

Author : Karine Chemla,Evelyn Fox Keller
Publisher : Duke University Press Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 0822363720

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Cultures without Culturalism by Karine Chemla,Evelyn Fox Keller Pdf

Cultural accounts of scientific ideas and practices have increasingly come to be welcomed as a corrective to previous—and still widely held—theories of scientific knowledge and practices as universal. The editors caution, however, against the temptation to overgeneralize the work of culture, and to lapse into a kind of essentialism that flattens the range and variety of scientific work. The book refers to this tendency as culturalism. The contributors to the volume model a new path where historicized and cultural accounts of scientific practice retain their specificity and complexity without falling into the traps of culturalism. They examine, among other issues, the potential of using notions of culture to study behavior in financial markets; the ideology, organization, and practice of earthquake monitoring and prediction during China's Cultural Revolution; the history of quadratic equations in China; and how studying the "glass ceiling" and employment discrimination became accepted in the social sciences. Demonstrating the need to understand the work of culture as a fluid and dynamic process that directly both shapes and is shaped by scientific practice, Cultures without Culturalism makes an important intervention in science studies. Contributors. Bruno Belhoste, Karine Chemla, Caroline Ehrhardt, Fa-ti Fan,Kenji Ito, Evelyn Fox Keller, Guillaume Lachenal, Donald MacKenzie, Mary S. Morgan, Nancy J. Nersessian, David Rabouin, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Claude Rosental, Koen Vermeir

Author : Anne Phillips
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691141152

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Multiculturalism Without Culture by Anne Phillips Pdf

Multiculturalism without culture -- Between culture and cosmos -- What's wrong with cultural defence? -- Autonomy, coercion, and constraint -- Exit and voice -- Multiculturalism without groups?

Author : C. P. Snow,Charles Percy Snow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107606142

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The Two Cultures by C. P. Snow,Charles Percy Snow Pdf

The importance of science and technology and future of education and research are just some of the subjects discussed here.

Author : Joana Breidenbach,Pál Nyíri
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780295989501

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Seeing Culture Everywhere by Joana Breidenbach,Pál Nyíri Pdf

This engagingly written, jargon-free challenge to the misguided and dangerous global obsession with cultural difference critiques the popular notion that world affairs are determined by civilizations with immutable and conflicting cultures. Culture is too often understood as a straightjacket of values that make people act in a certain way. A more accurate and constructive approach is to see culture as a changing system of meaning, which individuals deploy selectively to make sense of the world.

Author : Kamala Visweswaran
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822391630

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Un/common Cultures by Kamala Visweswaran Pdf

In Un/common Cultures, Kamala Visweswaran develops an incisive critique of the idea of culture at the heart of anthropology, describing how it lends itself to culturalist assumptions. She holds that the new culturalism—the idea that cultural differences are definitive, and thus divisive—produces a view of “uncommon cultures” defined by relations of conflict rather than forms of collaboration. The essays in Un/common Cultures straddle the line between an analysis of how racism works to form the idea of “uncommon cultures” and a reaffirmation of the possibilities of “common cultures,” those that enact new forms of solidarity in seeking common cause. Such “cultures in common” or “cultures of the common” also produce new intellectual formations that demand different analytic frames for understanding their emergence. By tracking the emergence and circulation of the culture concept in American anthropology and Indian and French sociology, Visweswaran offers an alternative to strictly disciplinary histories. She uses critical race theory to locate the intersection between ethnic/diaspora studies and area studies as a generative site for addressing the formation of culturalist discourses. In so doing, she interprets the work of social scientists and intellectuals such as Elsie Clews Parsons, Alice Fletcher, Franz Boas, Louis Dumont, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Clifford Geertz, W. E. B. Du Bois, and B. R. Ambedkar.

Author : Christine L. Marran
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Ecocriticism
ISBN : 1452958785

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Ecology Without Culture by Christine L. Marran Pdf

Cultures have long defined themselves through biological elements to prove their strength and longevity, from cherry blossoms in Japan to amber waves of grain in the United States. In this volume, Christine L. Marran introduces the concept of biotropes - material and semiotic figures that exist for human perception - to navigate how and why the material world has proven to be such an effective medium for representing culture.

Author : Barrett Holmes Pitner
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781640095595

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The Crime Without a Name by Barrett Holmes Pitner Pdf

In this incisive blend of personal narrative and philosophical inquiry, journalist and activist Barrett Holmes Pitner seeks a new way to talk about racism in America An NPR Best Book of the Year Can new language reshape our understanding of the past and expand the possibilities of the future? The Crime Without a Name follows Pitner’s journey to identify and remedy the linguistic void in how we discuss race and culture in the United States. Ethnocide, first coined in 1944 by Jewish exile Raphael Lemkin (who also coined the term "genocide"), describes the systemic erasure of a people’s ancestral culture. For Black Americans, who have endured this atrocity for generations, this erasure dates back to the transatlantic slave trade and reached new resonance in a post-Trump world.

Author : Richard Conrad
Publisher : Lioncrest Publishing
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1544503148

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Culture Hacks by Richard Conrad Pdf

Richard Conrad grew up in Washington, D.C., studied engineering and economics at Vanderbilt University, earned a master's degree in Economics as a local student at Fudan University in Shanghai, China, and later earned an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Richard worked for the last sixteen years for a large U.S. money management firm researching, analyzing, and investing in Chinese and Japanese equities. Richard is fluent in Chinese and Japanese and continues to live in Asia with his family.

Author : Simon Brault
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Arts
ISBN : 1897151764

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No Culture, No Future by Simon Brault Pdf

"Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits," proclaims the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Simon Brault takes these words to heart and goes one step further. In No Culture, No Future, he establishes that arts are not just a right but a necessity. A longtime advocate of the arts in Montreal, Brault has taken action to re-establish that city as one of the most culturally accomplished communities in Canada. No Culture, No Future is part of his campaign to convince the people and governments of cities across Canada that investment in the arts benefits all citizens.

Author : Mark Pagel
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780393063158

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Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind by Mark Pagel Pdf

“Does an excellent job of using evolutionary biology to discuss the origins of religion, music, art, and . . . morality.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review A unique trait of the human species is that our personalities, lifestyles, and worldviews are shaped by an accident of birth—namely, the culture into which we are born. It is our cultures and not our genes that determine which foods we eat, which languages we speak, which people we love and marry, and which people we kill in war. But how did our species develop a mind that is hardwired for culture—and why? Evolutionary biologist Mark Pagel tracks this intriguing question through the last 80,000 years of human evolution, revealing how an innate propensity to contribute and conform to the culture of our birth not only enabled human survival and progress in the past but also continues to influence our behavior today. Shedding light on our species’ defining attributes—from art, morality, and altruism to self-interest, deception, and prejudice—Wired for Culture offers surprising new insights into what it means to be human.

Author : Clifford Geertz
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780465093564

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The Interpretation of Cultures by Clifford Geertz Pdf

In The Interpretation of Cultures, the most original anthropologist of his generation moved far beyond the traditional confines of his discipline to develop an important new concept of culture. This groundbreaking book, winner of the 1974 Sorokin Award of the American Sociological Association, helped define for an entire generation of anthropologists what their field is ultimately about.

Author : Michael Bierut,Jessica Helfand
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780262039109

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Culture Is Not Always Popular by Michael Bierut,Jessica Helfand Pdf

A collection of writing about design from the influential, eclectic, and adventurous Design Observer. Founded in 2003, Design Observer inscribes its mission on its homepage: Writings about Design and Culture. Since its inception, the site has consistently embraced a broader, more interdisciplinary, and circumspect view of design's value in the world—one not limited by materialism, trends, or the slipperiness of style. Dedicated to the pursuit of originality, imagination, and close cultural analysis, Design Observer quickly became a lively forum for readers in the international design community. Fifteen years, 6,700 articles, 900 authors, and nearly 30,000 comments later, this book is a combination primer, celebration, survey, and salute to a certain moment in online culture. This collection includes reassessments that sharpen the lens or dislocate it; investigations into the power of design idioms; off-topic gems; discussions of design ethics; and experimental writing, new voices, hybrid observations, and other idiosyncratic texts. Since its founding, Design Observer has hosted conferences, launched a publishing imprint, hosted three podcasts, and attracted more than a million followers on social media. All of these enterprises are rooted in the original mission to engage a broader community by sharing ideas on ways that design shapes—and is shaped by—our lives. Contributors include Sean Adams, Allison Arieff, Ashleigh Axios, Eric Baker, Rachel Berger, Andrew Blauvelt, Liz Brown, John Cantwell, Mark Dery, Michael Erard, Stephen Eskilson, Bryan Finoki, Kenneth FitzGerald, John Foster, Steven Heller, Karrie Jacobs, Meena Kadri, Mark Lamster, Alexandra Lange, Francisco Laranjo, Adam Harrison Levy, Mimi Lipson, KT Meaney, Thomas de Monchaux, Randy Nakamura, Phil Patton, Maria Popova, Rick Poynor, Louise Sandhaus, Dmitri Siegel, Martha Scotford, Adrian Shaughnessy, Andrew Shea, John Thackara, Dori Tunstall, Alice Twemlow, Tom Vanderbilt, Véronique Vienne, Alissa Walker, Rob Walker, Lorraine Wild, Timothy Young

Author : Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht,Frank Schumacher
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1571813837

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Culture and International History by Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht,Frank Schumacher Pdf

Combining the perspectives of 18 international scholars from Europe and the United States with a critical discussion of the role of culture in international relations, this volume introduces recent trends in the study of Culture and International History. It systematically explores the cultural dimension of international history, mapping existing approaches and conceptual lenses for the study of cultural factors and thus hopes to sharpen the awareness for the cultural approach to international history among both American and non-American scholars. The first part provides a methodological introduction, explores the cultural underpinnings of foreign policy, and the role of culture in international affairs by reviewing the historiography and examining the meaning of the word culture in the context of foreign relations. In the second part, contributors analyze culture as a tool of foreign policy. They demonstrate how culture was instrumentalized for diplomatic goals and purposes in different historical periods and world regions. The essays in the third part expand the state-centered view and retrace informal cultural relations among nations and peoples. This exploration of non-state cultural interaction focuses on the role of science, art, religion, and tourism. The fourth part collects the findings and arguments of part one, two, and three to define a roadmap for further scholarly inquiry. A group of" commentators" survey the preceding essays, place them into a larger research context, and address the question "Where do we go from here?" The last and fifth part presents a selection of primary sources along with individual comments highlighting a new genre of resources scholars interested in culture and international relations can consult.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:868527014

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Multiculturalism Without Culture by Anonim Pdf

Author : Teresa L. Ebert,Mas'ud Zavarzadeh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317262299

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Class in Culture by Teresa L. Ebert,Mas'ud Zavarzadeh Pdf

"A gem of a book. Its topics are timely and provocative for cultural studies, sociology, English, literary theory, and education classes. The authors are brilliant thinkers and clear, penetrating writers." -Peter McLaren, UCLA, author of Capitalists and Conquerors: A Critical Pedagogy Against Empire Class in Culture demonstrates the power of moving beyond cultural politics to a deeper class critique of contemporary life. Making a persuasive case for class as the material logic of culture, the book is written in a double register of short critiques of life practices-from food and education to race, stem-cell research, and abortion-as well as sustained critiques of such theoretical discourses as ideology, consumption, globalization, and 9/11. Surpassing the orthodoxies of cultural studies, Class in Culture makes surprising connections among seemingly unrelated cultural events and practices and offers a groundbreaking and complex understanding of the contemporary world.