Social Formations Of Wonder

Author : Jaap Timmer,Matt Tomlinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780429686030

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Social Formations of Wonder by Jaap Timmer,Matt Tomlinson Pdf

What can wonder engender in terms of religious, political, and broader social practice? Thinkers from Plato to Martin Heidegger and Cornelius Castoriadis; surrealists such as Andre Breton and Pierre Mabille; and most recently the religious philosopher Mary-Jane Rubenstein have all explored the ways that wonder is not articulated once and for all, but continuously worked upon. This book engages with anthropological explorations of wonder, responding to recent work by Michael W. Scott in order to bring the weight, colour, scent and sound of real ethnographic encounters to new ways of thinking about wonder. The question for contributors is how wonder works as an index of challenges to the known, the moral, the true, and the real. The case studies reveal how probing wonder can bring us closer to understanding the formation of social institutions as various ‘modalities of wonder’ destabilize old forms and articulate new ones. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Religious and Political Practice.

Author : Rakesh Kumar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : History
ISBN : 1032625171

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Social Formations in the Ancient World by Rakesh Kumar Pdf

"This book encapsulates a period of history of human progress by highlighting crucial social, economic, and cultural dynamics. It presents recent historiography and new analytical tools used to analyze multi-dimensional themes involved in social formation. This is a reader-friendly book with simple and lucid language and fulfils the pressing needs of students studying the paper on Social Formations and Cultural Patterns of Ancient and Medieval World at various universities across the world. The summary, keywords, and representative questions at the end of each chapter would assist in revision and better understanding of the issues dealt therein. A detailed chapter-end reference would enable and motivate the readers to engage in further studies for better understanding of the themes. This book will be of interest to students, researchers, and academics in the area of history - ancient and medieval world history in particular and anthropology. It will also be an interesting read for general readers interested in knowing about the ancient and medieval world"--

Author : George Cavalletto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-22
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317156901

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Crossing the Psycho-Social Divide by George Cavalletto Pdf

The prevailing view among social scientists is that the psyche and the social reside in such disparate domains that their proper study demands markedly incompatible analytical and theoretical approaches. Over the last decade, scholars have begun to challenge this view. In this innovative work, George Cavalletto moves this challenge forward by connecting it to theoretical and analytical practices of the early 20th century. His analysis of key texts by Sigmund Freud, Max Weber, Theodor Adorno and Norbert Elias shows that they crossed the psycho-social divide in ways that can help contemporary scholars to re-establish an analytical and theoretical understanding of the inherent interconnection of these two domains. This book will particularly interest scholars and students in sociology and social psychology, especially those in the fields of social theory, the sociology of emotion, self and society, and historical sociology.

Author : Amar Farooqui
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Civilization
ISBN : 817827020X

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Early Social Formations by Amar Farooqui Pdf

Author : Vicki Cummings,Colin Richards
Publisher : Windgather Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781911188469

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Monuments in the Making by Vicki Cummings,Colin Richards Pdf

Dolmens are iconic international monumental constructions which represent the first megalithic architecture (after menhirs) in north-west Europe. These monuments are characterised by an enormous capstone balanced on top of smaller uprights. However, previous investigations of these extraordinary monuments have focussed on three main areas of debate. First, typology has been a dominant feature of discussion, particularly the position of dolmens in the ordering of chambered tombs. Second, attention has been placed not on how they were built but how they were used. Finally much debate has centred on their visual appearance (whether they were covered by mounds or cairns). This book provides a reappraisal of the ‘dolmen’ as an architectural entity and provides an alternative perspective on function. This is achieved through a re-theorising of the nature of megalithic architecture grounded in the results of a new research/fieldwork project covering Britain, Ireland and Scandinavia. It is argued that instead of understanding dolmen simply as chambered tombs these were multi-faceted monuments whose construction was as much to do with enchantment and captivation as it was with containing the dead. Consequently, the presence of human remains within dolmens is also critically evaluated and a new interpretation offered.

Author : Olivier Driessens,Göran Bolin,Andreas Hepp,Stig Hjarvard
Publisher : Springer
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319629834

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Dynamics Of Mediatization by Olivier Driessens,Göran Bolin,Andreas Hepp,Stig Hjarvard Pdf

This volume sheds light on the underlying dynamics of mediatization, disentangling the actual unfolding of mediatization processes. The wide adoption and deep embedding of digital media and technology brings new questions to mediatization studies: how can we grasp this ‘deep mediatization’? In which way should we develop existing approaches of mediatization to analyse such dynamics? What are the consequences of this for theorising and empirically studying mediatization? By using these questions as a starting point, this book presents an innovative and original collection that is dedicated to both the underlying dynamics of mediatization and recent dynamics related to digital media.

Author : Ralph Pordzik
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119936651

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The Wonder of Travel by Ralph Pordzik Pdf

The aim of this book is to bring into focus some of the major moves in western discourses about tourism and travel writing from the early Victorian to the late modern or post-western age. It offers a series of readings connecting the work of travel writers as diverse as Alexander Kinglake, William Cobbett, George Henry Borrow, E.M. Forster and Bruce Chatwin to their respective cultural and material contexts. The grounding model is that of travel writing as a form of cultural intervention and the individual text as an artificial yet intermediary space that constantly stimulates the travellers' consciousness, moving them to revise judgements passed on their own as well as on the other culture. In individual chapters, the study explores different stages of revision in travel discourse since the late-romantic age, surveys new touristic models installed in the place of received notions of picturesque or adventurous travel and analyses the role of exotic and nostalgic registers in the construction of cultural value.

Author : Emaline Friedman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780429508998

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Internet Addiction by Emaline Friedman Pdf

This essential book questions the psychological construct of Internet Addiction by contextualizing it within the digital technological era. It proposes a critical psychology that investigates user subjectivity as a function of capitalism and imperialism, arguing against punitive models of digital excesses and critiquing the political economy of the Internet affecting all users. Friedman explores the limitations of individual-centered remediations exemplified in the psychology of internet addiction. Furthermore, Friedman outlines the self-creative actions of social media users, and the data processing that exploits them to urge psychologists to politicize rather than pathologize the effects of excessive net use. The book develops a notion of capitalist imperialism of the social web and studies this using the radical methods of philosopher Gilles Deleuze and psychoanalyst Félix Guattari. By synthesizing perspectives on digital life from sociology, economics, digital media theory, and technology studies for psychologists, this book will be of interest to academics and students in these areas, as well as psychologists and counselors interested in addressing Internet Addiction as a collective, societal ill.

Author : Thomas Edie Hill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Business
ISBN : MINN:31951002038727R

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Manual of Social and Business Forms by Thomas Edie Hill Pdf

Author : Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780192647344

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Indigenous Peoples and Mining by Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh Pdf

Indigenous peoples have occupied their territories for thousands of years, territories that are increasingly being mined by an industry applying the most modern extractive, marketing, and transport technologies on a scale that can be difficult to comprehend. Mining reshapes landscapes, literally moving mountains and diverting rivers; the Indigenous owners of these landscapes often believe them to have been originally shaped by ancestor beings who still reside at mining locations. This book seeks to understand the political, social, economic, and cultural dynamic that is created by the relentless expansion of mining into Indigenous territories. Contributing to such an understanding involves a task of global significance: Indigenous peoples embody a large part of the world's linguistic and cultural diversity; their lands cover an estimated 25 per cent of the world's land surface, intersect with about 40 per cent of all ecologically intact landscapes, and contain a large proportion of the world's mineral resources. Must interaction between Indigenous peoples and mining involve the destruction of Indigenous peoples, territories, and cultures? Can the remarkable resilience that has allowed Indigenous peoples to survive for millennia enable them not only to survive, but to capitalize on the development opportunities offered by mining? What role are governments, international organizations, and civil society playing in shaping relations between mining and Indigenous peoples? Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh addresses these and other questions by drawing on his own 30 years of experience working with Indigenous communities as they deal with mining projects, and on the experiences of Indigenous peoples in some 15 countries from different regions of the globe.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1018 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Water conservation
ISBN : UIUC:30112061722291

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Report by Anonim Pdf

Author : Simon During
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-16
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781000153248

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Foucault and Literature by Simon During Pdf

The writings of the French historian, literary critic and philosopher Michel Foucault have been of immense importance to developments in literary studies since the late 1970s. He, more than anyone, stands behind the new historicism' and cultural materialism' that currently dominate international literary studies. Simon During provides a detailed introduction to the whole body of Foucault's work, with a particular emphasis on his literary theory. His study takes in Foucault's early studies of transgressive' writing from Sade and Artaud to the French new novellists' of the 1960s, and his later concern with the genealogy of the author/intellectual, writing and theorizing within specific, historical mechanisms of social control and production. Foucault and Literature offers a critique both of Foucault and of the literary studies that have been influenced by him, and goes on to develop new methods of post-Foucauldian literary/cultural analysis.

Author : Pierpaolo Donati
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135273095

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Relational Sociology by Pierpaolo Donati Pdf

‘Simultaneous invention’ has become commonplace in the natural sciences, but is still virtually unknown within the sphere of social science. The convergence of two highly compatible versions of Critical Realism from two independent sources is a striking exception. Pierpaolo Donati’s Relational Sociology develops ‘upwards’ from sociology into a Realist meta-theory, unlike Roy Baskhar’s philosophy of science that works ‘downwards’ and ‘underlabours’ for the social sciences. This book systematically introduces Donati’s Relational Sociology to an English readership for the first time since he began to advance his approach thirty years ago. In this eagerly awaited book, Pierpaolo Donati shifts the focus of sociological theory onto the relational order at all levels. He argues that society is constituted by the relations people create with one another, their emergent properties and powers, and internal and external causal effects. Relational Sociology provides a distinctive variant upon the Realist theoretical conspectus, especially because of its ability to account for social integration. It will stimulate debate amongst realists themselves and, of course, with the adversaries of realism. It is a valuable new resource for students of social theory and practising social theorists.

Author : Dennis K. Mumby
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1993-08-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780803949324

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Narrative and Social Control by Dennis K. Mumby Pdf

What is the relationship between narrative, society and the forms of control that function in society? This critical analysis examines the role of narrative in the creation of various social realities. The central theme is that narrative is a pervasive form of human communication integral to the production and shaping of social order. Each chapter provides both a theoretical framework and an examination of narratives in a range of communication contexts - interpersonal, small group, organizational and mass media - illustrating the far-reaching impact of narrative on our lives and social organizations.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317859079

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Geographies of Economies by Anonim Pdf

Setting out to explore the intersections of economy and geography, this book brings together contributions from the world's top economic geographers. Over forty contributors draw upon contemporary theory and experience to explore the cultural and social constitution of economic geographies, processes of globalisation and new forms of political regulation and practice. Although focusing upon 'new' economic geography, the book also illustrates the many connections with previous scholarship as scholars seek to reconstruct the traditions of political economy to understand the contemporary world. Highlighting and illustrating contemporary developments, the book opens up discussion about the implications of the complex geographies involved. In pointing to new directions of research and debate, this major statement in state of the art economic geography demonstrates the central relevance of economic geography not only in understanding the trajectories of change but in proposing alternatives.