Sociology and anthropology Books

Book SynopsisOur societies are in transition, spurred on by a pandemic that disrupted many aspects of the social world we once took for granted. We’ve left behind the ‘solid modernity’ of the twentieth century and even the ‘liquid modernity’ so brilliantly analysed by Zygmunt Bauman, but what kind of society is now taking shape around us? In this highly original reflection on the current state of our world, Carlo Bordoni argues that we are on the threshold of ‘post-society’, a condition in which social distancing becomes the norm, real social relations are diminishing in favour of those mediated by technology, existential loneliness is becoming widespread, and we find ourselves voluntarily submitting to new forms of surveillance and control in the hope of increasing our security. Emotions are increasingly assuming a central role in social life, not only because of the growing prevalence of social media, which provide platforms for the public expression of emotion, but also because emotions have been freed from the ‘repression of emotionality’ that had characterized modern society. While many of these developments are rooted in broader social transformations, they were all deepened and accelerated by the pandemic, which propelled us headlong into a brave new world where social relations are sustained without physical contact but with intense communication. This is the new post-social condition: more humanity, less sociality.Trade Review''Carlo Bordoni engages our emergent conditions and thereby makes visible a range of elements too easily overlooked. This is a must-read for those among us who experience a kind of discomfort with the standard definitions.''Saskia Sassen, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction: After a liquid society 1: From social to post-social 2: Proximity and social distancing 3: The primacy of emotions 4: Voluntary submission 5: What is left of the future Conclusion:On the ineffectiveness of the sociologist References Index

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Book SynopsisSociological analysis is replete with debates about “micro” and “macro,” individual and society, but all too often these miss the point: interacting groups are the hinge that connects the two. To understand how structures matter and how individuals navigate them, we must take groups and people in local communities seriously. Gary Alan Fine and Tim Hallett skillfully argue that sociologists have the obligation to examine the role of small communities in the creation of both the interaction order and structural realities. With novel concepts and rich ethnographic examples, this book describes how group commitments shape selves and society, emphasizing the importance of a meso-level approach to social organization. Fine and Hallett provide new models of identity, culture, conflict, and control, and consider how a network of groups can provide insight into extended communication channels and social media lattices. Ultimately, they show that, despite the importance of institutions and individuals, group life is the fundamental building block of community. This timely book makes the case for a local sociology that includes sociality. It will be a welcome resource for students and sociologists, and a necessary call to action for the discipline as a whole.Trade Review“Fine and Hallett make a persuasive case for a 'local' sociology that treats seriously the significance of groups, their routines and cultures. A major contribution to the broadly interactionist tradition in contemporary sociology.”Paul Atkinson, Cardiff University“Extending their discipline-defining contributions, Fine and Hallett broaden our understanding of the social dimension of human interactions as they impact meaning-making and action. They propose an original and encompassing sociological approach to group life that will be widely referenced in years to come.”Michèle Lamont, Harvard University“Their roadmap is urgently needed in a sociology currently obsessed with provincialism, parochialism, and only the dark sides of life. Amidst this doom and gloom, Fine and Hallett shine a bright light on the familiar, which often suffers from, well, its familiarity. Theirs is not just an effort to remind everyone that local sociology is still important. It is the framework for doing sociology.”Seth Abrutyn, Symbolic Interaction“[Fine and Hallett’s] invitation toward a local sociology is one to which many sociologists should RSVP both affirmatively and enthusiastically. […They] have written a book that is timely and provocative, as well as firmly rooted in long-standing sociological traditions. Moreover, they dare us as sociologists to break free from tired conceptual dichotomies of macro versus micro.”Social ForcesTable of ContentsOpening Chapter One: Believing in Groups: The Possibility of a Local Sociology Part I: The Individual in the Group Chapter Two: Being in Groups: Reflective and Collective Identities Chapter Three: Belonging to Groups: The Power and Benefits of Commitment Part II: The World of the Group Chapter Four: Building Groups: The Power of Idioculture Chapter Five: Bonding by Groups: The Basis for Collective Action Part III: The Group in the World Chapter Six: Battling Groups: The Minuet of Conflict and Control Chapter Seven: Bridging Groups: Extending the Local Chapter Eight: Better Sociology: A Call to Small Arms References

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Book SynopsisWho counts as a woman? This question lies at the heart of many public debates about sex and gender today. While we increasingly recognise the desire of some to eliminate the sex binary in law, a particular boiling point emerges through conflicting demands over women’s spaces. Which should govern access to these – sex or gender identity? Karen Ingala Smith, a veteran campaigner for women’s and girls’ rights, opts for the former. In this trenchant critique of inclusivity politics, she argues that we cannot ignore the wealth of evidence which shows that people of the female sex have a unique set of needs which are often not met by mixed-sex spaces. Drawing on her 30 years of experience in researching and recording men’s violence against women and girls, she outlines how certain spaces, including refuges, benefit from remaining single sex – and what they stand to lose. Written with sensitivity and respect for all concerned, this book nevertheless dismantles the idea that we have reached a post-sex utopia.Trade Review"This is it. This is the reminder, handbook and call that everyone on the frontline of defending women's rights, voices and single-sex services has been waiting for. Swerving from the personal to the professional, from the historical to the present, and tackling every area of life relevant to women and our lived realities, this book does what Karen has always done: it places women first. In a world so willing to drown out women's bodies, abuses and needs, this is a must-read for anyone wanting to know why attempts to dismiss, dismantle, and 'cancel' the reality of biological sex mean a decimation of the hard-won rights and spaces of women and girls everywhere."Onjali Raúf, author and CEO of Making Herstory"It says something about the alarming political times in which we live that a book like this has to be written. Who would have thought that, 40 years after the start of second wave feminism, we would have to go back to first principles by defending all over again the women only spaces that were created as a prerequisite to achieving women’s autonomy, equality, and freedom - a struggle that remains not only unfinished business but is now under huge multi-directional threat? Karen Ingala Smith makes a clear and powerful case for the right of women to have a room of our own, not as part of some crude competition for the status of ultimate victimhood or to prioritise the human rights of women over others, but as a key site of feminist resistance against patriarchal violence and sex-based oppression. Let’s read, discuss and even agree to disagree, but let’s do it with honesty, decency and compassion, and without descending into the blind alley of regressive identity politics."Pragna Patel, founder and ex-director of Southall Black Sisters"A lucid and insightful defence of women’s sex-based rights and the need for single-sex services for women who have been subjected to male violence and abuse written by someone who has worked in the sector for three decades."Joanna Cherry QC MP"Karen Ingala Smith is a giant in women’s safety: few have done more to fight for women’s lives and voices to count. She is unapologetically women-focused."Jess Phillips MP"Karen is a true feminist, gutsy and determined and forcing us to confront the terrible extent of violence against women and girls carried out every single day in the UK. Her book is accessible, sometimes brutal, but delivered in her own style as a very funny and incredibly likeable women. Direct, punchy and readable, these are things all women should know."Rosie Duffield MP"This authoritative book marshals all the evidence for providing single-sex spaces for women traumatised by male violence—and for excluding transwomen, that is males who identify as women, from such spaces. Ingala Smith is one of Britain’s foremost campaigners against male violence, and as chief executive of one of the few organisations supporting women victims of men’s violence to stand up publicly for female-only spaces, she has played a key role in the recent resurgence of feminist activism in opposition to trans ideology. Her deep knowledge and crisp, clean prose make this both an essential and enjoyable read."Helen Joyce, author of Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality" Defending Women’s Spaces is an important, factual, and therefore appropriately chilling account of how gender identity politics has destroyed women’s safe spaces and challenged our feminist understanding of women’s sex-based rights. Essential reading."Phyllis Chesler, author of Women and Madness and A Politically Incorrect Feminist"Karen Ingala Smith makes a compelling argument in favour of female-only spaces and services. Her practical insights, derived from three decades of experience working for women, provide an important and welcome intervention into the academic debates around gender. This book will also force policy-makers to recognize how sex matters."Michael Biggs, Associate Professor of Sociology and Fellow of St Cross College, University of Oxford“How one reads Defending Women’s Spaces depends on how much one allows oneself to engage with ideas that have suddenly become dangerous … It shouldn’t have had to be written, but it needs to be read.” Victoria Smith, The Critic “An angry, brilliant classic of feminist philosophy, Defending Women’s Spaces not only challenges the continuing marginalisation of women but reveals the masculine appropriation of feminine space that makes it possible.” Antonella Gambotto-Burke, The Australian Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. What’s the Problem? 2. Sex Inequality: What’s men’s violence against women and girls got to do with it? 3. Standing on the Shoulders of Giants 4. What Difference Does it Make? The need for women-only spaces for women who have been subjected to men’s violence 5. Looking Beyond: Services for women who have been subjected to men’s violence aren’t the only ones under threat 6. Sisters are Doing it for Themselves: The fight to preserve single-sex services 7. Trans Rights are Human Rights 8. Despatches from Terf Island About nia Notes

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Book SynopsisThis book presents the first comprehensive and critical account of Jeffrey Alexander’s cultural sociology. Alexander has proposed a “strong program” in cultural sociology that analyses the cultural pragmatics of social performance, and his hermeneutical approach connects meaningful political action with deeper symbolic structures of social life. His highly original account of the civil sphere, as an institutionalized domain that is shaped by the discourse of liberty and solidarity and that sustains universalizing cultural aspirations provides an illuminating perspective on how democracy functions, and fails to function, in contemporary societies. This book charts the development of Alexander’s thought in all its complexity. Through its critical readings, it also opens up a dialogue with other contemporary approaches in sociology, situating Alexander’s work in relation to others and highlighting alternative views that challenge his ideas. It is an invaluable introduction for anyone who wishes to learn more about the work of one of the most creative sociologists of our time. Trade Review“Jeffrey Alexander’s ‘strong program’ for cultural sociology is a major effort to revitalize the classical sociological tradition – and challenge both materialist and instrumental perspectives. It has evolved over many years, shifting among theoretical syntheses, programmatic statements, and analyses of practical issues in democratic culture. Fully understanding it calls for a guide, and Jean-Francois Côté performs this role with clarity and insight. Whether you wish to follow Alexander or challenge him, you will find Côté’s analysis invaluable.”Craig Calhoun, Arizona State University and LSE“An essential overview of Jeffrey Alexander’s cultural sociology, Côté’s important critical synthesis connects its many contributions to illuminate one of the most ambitious, sustained, and useful projects in contemporary sociology.”Lyn Spillman, University of Notre DameTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Chapter 1: The “strong program” of cultural sociology Alexander’s “post-positivist” approach to sociology From Parsons to neofunctionalism From Neofunctionalism to Cultural Sociology A new analysis of the relative autonomy of culture based on reflexivity Chapter 2: A rereading of Durkheim: social ritual and cultural significance The presence of the religious in cultural life A sociology of religion in social life: politics and technology Symbolic forms of meaning in contemporary society Chapter 3: A critique of Marx, Cultural Studies, and Bourdieu The rejection of Marxian critique Critique of Cultural Studies Critique of Bourdieusian determinism Critical theory and reflexivity: the power of representation Chapter 4: Culture, Politics and Civil Religion: Weber and beyond With Weber and beyond: a sociology of religion in modernity Weberian analysis reassessed by pragmatics and hermeneutics The civil sphere and political debates: reconstruction of civil religion Chapter 5: The Civil Sphere and the “Societal Community:” beyond Parsons From Parsons to Touraine and beyond: analysis of performative social movements Cultural pragmatics and the challenges of symbolic codification Social and cultural trauma theory: social claims of identity Chapter 6: The power of representation and the representation of power Empirical analysis of political life: the representation of power Power of representation: performance and dramatic action in the civil sphere The power of the symbolic and the iconic A generalized social theatricality: the dramatic aesthetics of social action Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book presents the first comprehensive and critical account of Jeffrey Alexander’s cultural sociology. Alexander has proposed a “strong program” in cultural sociology that analyses the cultural pragmatics of social performance, and his hermeneutical approach connects meaningful political action with deeper symbolic structures of social life. His highly original account of the civil sphere, as an institutionalized domain that is shaped by the discourse of liberty and solidarity and that sustains universalizing cultural aspirations provides an illuminating perspective on how democracy functions, and fails to function, in contemporary societies. This book charts the development of Alexander’s thought in all its complexity. Through its critical readings, it also opens up a dialogue with other contemporary approaches in sociology, situating Alexander’s work in relation to others and highlighting alternative views that challenge his ideas. It is an invaluable introduction for anyone who wishes to learn more about the work of one of the most creative sociologists of our time. Trade Review“Jeffrey Alexander’s ‘strong program’ for cultural sociology is a major effort to revitalize the classical sociological tradition – and challenge both materialist and instrumental perspectives. It has evolved over many years, shifting among theoretical syntheses, programmatic statements, and analyses of practical issues in democratic culture. Fully understanding it calls for a guide, and Jean-Francois Côté performs this role with clarity and insight. Whether you wish to follow Alexander or challenge him, you will find Côté’s analysis invaluable.”Craig Calhoun, Arizona State University and LSE“An essential overview of Jeffrey Alexander’s cultural sociology, Côté’s important critical synthesis connects its many contributions to illuminate one of the most ambitious, sustained, and useful projects in contemporary sociology.”Lyn Spillman, University of Notre DameTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionChapter 1: The “strong program” of cultural sociologyAlexander’s “post-positivist” approach to sociologyFrom Parsons to neofunctionalismFrom Neofunctionalism to Cultural SociologyA new analysis of the relative autonomy of culture based on reflexivityChapter 2: A rereading of Durkheim: social ritual and cultural significanceThe presence of the religious in cultural lifeA sociology of religion in social life: politics and technologySymbolic forms of meaning in contemporary societyChapter 3: A critique of Marx, Cultural Studies, and BourdieuThe rejection of Marxian critiqueCritique of Cultural StudiesCritique of Bourdieusian determinismCritical theory and reflexivity: the power of representationChapter 4: Culture, Politics and Civil Religion: Weber and beyondWith Weber and beyond: a sociology of religion in modernityWeberian analysis reassessed by pragmatics and hermeneuticsThe civil sphere and political debates: reconstruction of civil religionChapter 5: The Civil Sphere and the “Societal Community:” beyond ParsonsFrom Parsons to Touraine and beyond: analysis of performative social movementsCultural pragmatics and the challenges of symbolic codificationSocial and cultural trauma theory: social claims of identityChapter 6: The power of representation and the representation of powerEmpirical analysis of political life: the representation of powerPower of representation: performance and dramatic action in the civil sphereThe power of the symbolic and the iconicA generalized social theatricality: the dramatic aesthetics of social actionConclusion

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Book SynopsisWe are living in a period of great uncertainty. The rise of extreme populists, economic shocks and rising international tensions is not only causing turmoil but is also a sign that many long-predicted tipping points in media and politics have now been reached. Such changes have worrying implications for democracies everywhere.This second edition of Political Communication bridges old and new to map the political and cultural shifts and analyse what they mean for our ageing democracies. With new sections and revisions to all chapters, the book continues both to introduce and challenge the established literature. It revisits key questions such as: Why are polarized electorates no longer prepared to support established political parties? Why are large parts of the legacy media either dying or dismissed as 'fake news'? And why do some democratic leaders look more like dictators? In this fully updated edition, there is greater focus on digital developments, and it is enriched with new global comparisons and useful ancillary material.Political Communication: An Introduction for Crisis Times will appeal to advanced students and scholars of political communication, as well as anyone trying to understand the precarious state of today's media and political landscape.Trade Review‘In a time characterized by numerous simultaneous crises, transformative changes and democratic backsliding, this well-written and highly insightful book can be recommended to anyone interested in contemporary political communication and the fate of democracy.’Jesper Strömbäck, University of Gothenburg‘Political Communication arrives at a time of rapid change and deepening crisis in democratic societies. It provides an engaging, magisterial and rigorous assessment of the impact of recent transformations – ranging from the rise of authoritarian populist leaders to the Covid-19 pandemic. The book is a must-read for anyone who wants to make sense of political communication in unprecedented times.’Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, Cardiff UniversityTable of ContentsForeword to the Second Edition and Acknowledgements Part I: Introductory Frameworks 1. Introducing Political Communication in Crisis Times 2. Evaluating Democratic Politics and Communication 3. Digital Media and Political Communication Part II: Institutional Politics and Legacy News Media 4. Political Parties and Elections 5. Political Reporting and the Future of (Fake) News 6. Media-Source Relations, Mediatization and Populist Turn in News and Politics Part III: Citizens and Organised Interests Beyond the Political Centre 7. Citizens, Media Effects and Public Participation 8. Civil Society, Powerful Interests and the Policy Process 9. Interest Groups, Social Movements and Campaigning for Equality and the Environment 10. Globalisation, the State and International Political Communication 11. Conclusions: Post-Truth, Post-Public Sphere and Post-Democracy Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPublic health erupted into the world’s consciousness in early 2020 with the Covid pandemic and its multiple social and economic consequences. What had been until then, for most people, a remote and specialized field of expertise suddenly became the very basis for the government of lives. The Worlds of Public Health analyzes the moral and political issues at stake in the practice of public health today, including the influence of positivism, the boundaries of disease, conspiracy theories, morality tests, and the challenges posed by the health of migrants and prisoners. This exploration transports readers from South Africa, the country most impacted by the AIDS epidemic, to Ecuador, with the supposedly highest maternal mortality rate in Latin America; from the scientific controversies concerning the so-called worm wars in Kenya to conflicts between doctors and patients around Gulf War syndrome in the United States; from lead poisoning and public housing in France to the Covid-19 pandemic worldwide. Through these case studies, Didier Fassin argues that, ultimately, public health is a politics of life, revealing the different and unequal ways in which life is valued – and either protected or not – in contemporary societies.Trade Review“Didier Fassin reinvents the image and language of public health through a daring ‘shift of gaze.’ These compelling lectures offer radical new perspectives on what it means to live under perpetual threat in the 21st century.”Richard Horton, The Lancet“Trespassing disciplinary boundaries and challenging methodological detachment, Didier Fassin’s timely excursion is a master class in ‘intellectual dishabituation.’ Set against a ravaging Covid pandemic, Fassin’s latest tour de force urges us to rethink the biopolitical and the ethical from the ground up. A much-needed compass for our imperiled present.”João Biehl, Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsPreface The Birth of Public Health The Truth in Numbers Epistemic Boundaries Conspiracy Theories Ethical Crises Precarious Exiles Carceral Ordeals Readings of the Pandemic Endnotes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisCosmopolitanism is commonly associated today with the idea that the forces of globalization could be tempered by new forms of cosmopolitan governance, an idea that was popular among some political theorists in the late twentieth century but seems increasingly unrealistic today. Rather than discarding the idea of cosmopolitanism, Nikos Papastergiadis seeks to reinvigorate it by examining the ways in which visual artists have explored themes associated with the cosmos. Kant regarded cosmopolitanism as the goal for humanity, but he turned his attention away from the connection to the cosmos and directed it toward the practical rules for peaceful co-existence. However, these two concerns are not in conflict. Today a new vision of the cosmos is being developed by artists, among others – one that brings together the cosmos and the polis. Scholars from the South are decolonizing the mindset which divided the world and split us from our common connections, while others are using art to highlight the existential threats we now face as a species. By developing a distinctive form of aesthetic cosmopolitanism, this book shows that the idea of the cosmos is more important than ever today, and vital for our attempts to rethink our place as one species among others in a universe that extends far beyond our world.Trade Review“Nikos Papastergiadis has put the cosmos back into cosmopolitanism, refusing to cede the intellectual and aesthetic gravity of the concept to reductive, neoliberal apologia. Added to his usual encyclopedic scholarship and lucid writing is a generous sense of connection to place, people, and planet that makes this book both compelling and urgent – a must-read!”Marsha Meskimmon, Loughborough University“In this inspiring and lucidly written book, Papastergiadis shows that cosmopolitanism exerts a continued allure for contemporary critical thought and is deeply embedded in the human condition and in aesthetic sensibility.”Gerard Delanty, Sussex UniversityTable of ContentsProlegomenon: Putting the Cosmos Back into Cosmopolitanism 1 Introduction: A Constellation for Cosmopolitanism in Seven Points Part 1 Cosmos in Antiquity 2 Cosmopolitanism in Antiquity 3 Stoic lives and the places of Cosmopolitanism 4 Cosmopolis and Physics of Cosmic Fire Part 2 Closing Apertures: Fading Cosmos and Rising Anthropos 5 From St Paul to the Enlightenment 6 Kant: Cosmopolitanism or the Graveyard Part 3 From the Moral Imperative to the Creative Constitutive 7 After Kant: Political Philosophy for Cosmopolitanism – Habermas and Derrida 8 After Kant: Political Philosophy against Cosmopolitanism – Sloterdijk and Mouffe 9 Cosmos Perduring in Art 10 Cosmos from the Global South: From Subaltern to Decolonial Perspectives 11 Cosmos for the World 12 Epilogue: Cosmic Fire and Liquid Polis

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Book SynopsisCosmopolitanism is commonly associated today with the idea that the forces of globalization could be tempered by new forms of cosmopolitan governance, an idea that was popular among some political theorists in the late twentieth century but seems increasingly unrealistic today. Rather than discarding the idea of cosmopolitanism, Nikos Papastergiadis seeks to reinvigorate it by examining the ways in which visual artists have explored themes associated with the cosmos. Kant regarded cosmopolitanism as the goal for humanity, but he turned his attention away from the connection to the cosmos and directed it toward the practical rules for peaceful co-existence. However, these two concerns are not in conflict. Today a new vision of the cosmos is being developed by artists, among others – one that brings together the cosmos and the polis. Scholars from the South are decolonizing the mindset which divided the world and split us from our common connections, while others are using art to highlight the existential threats we now face as a species. By developing a distinctive form of aesthetic cosmopolitanism, this book shows that the idea of the cosmos is more important than ever today, and vital for our attempts to rethink our place as one species among others in a universe that extends far beyond our world.Trade Review“Nikos Papastergiadis has put the cosmos back into cosmopolitanism, refusing to cede the intellectual and aesthetic gravity of the concept to reductive, neoliberal apologia. Added to his usual encyclopedic scholarship and lucid writing is a generous sense of connection to place, people, and planet that makes this book both compelling and urgent – a must-read!”Marsha Meskimmon, Loughborough University“In this inspiring and lucidly written book, Papastergiadis shows that cosmopolitanism exerts a continued allure for contemporary critical thought and is deeply embedded in the human condition and in aesthetic sensibility.”Gerard Delanty, Sussex UniversityTable of ContentsProlegomenon: Putting the Cosmos Back into Cosmopolitanism1 Introduction: A Constellation for Cosmopolitanism in Seven PointsPart 1 Cosmos in Antiquity2 Cosmopolitanism in Antiquity3 Stoic lives and the places of Cosmopolitanism4 Cosmopolis and Physics of Cosmic FirePart 2 Closing Apertures: Fading Cosmos and Rising Anthropos5 From St Paul to the Enlightenment6 Kant: Cosmopolitanism or the GraveyardPart 3 From the Moral Imperative to the Creative Constitutive7 After Kant: Political Philosophy for Cosmopolitanism – Habermas and Derrida8 After Kant: Political Philosophy against Cosmopolitanism – Sloterdijk and Mouffe9 Cosmos Perduring in Art10 Cosmos from the Global South: From Subaltern to Decolonial Perspectives11 Cosmos for the World12 Epilogue: Cosmic Fire and Liquid Polis

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Book SynopsisIn a series of televised interviews broadcast in spring 2022, Bruno Latour explained, in clear and straightforward terms, how humans have changed the planet and why environmental disasters are an intrinsic part of modern life. We have now come to realize that all life depends on a thin skin of our planet that is only few kilometres thick – what scientists call the ‘critical zone’. Our capacity to continue to live on a planet we are transforming is now at risk and if we wish to survive as a species, we must put an end to the mechanisms of destruction, rethink our connection to living beings, and face head-on the confrontation between the extractivists who are exploiting the Earth’s resources and the ecologists. This poignant reflection on the greatest challenge of our time was also an opportunity for Latour to explain the underlying thread that guided his work throughout his career, from his pathbreaking research on the social construction of scientific knowledge to his last writings on the Anthropocene.Table of ContentsIntroduction by Nicolas TruongChanging worldsThe end of modernityGaia puts us on noticeWhere do we land?The new ecological classInventing collective apparatusesThe truth of the religiousScience in actionThe modes of existenceThe circle of politicsPhilosophy is so beautiful!Letter to Lilo Thanks

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Book SynopsisIn this book Bruno Latour calls upon Christians to join the struggle to avert a climate catastrophe. First and foremost, Christians need to overcome their lack of interest in “earthly things” and pay attention to the Earth at a time when it is being neglected. He also urges Christians to renew their understanding of their faith in the context of the new image of the world that has emerged from earth system science – that of a world in which the myriad of beings that inhabit the world are interdependent and living in close proximity on a slender, fragile membrane on the surface of the planet. This new image of the world cannot fail to have an impact on the sciences, on politics, and on religion, just as, in earlier centuries, the cosmology of Copernicus and Galileo upset the old order. Latour sees the ecological crisis, and the cosmological mutation that it entails, as an opportunity to convey anew, to the largest possible audience, the tradition of Christianity as it has never been appreciated before, by bringing to bear the lessons of eschatology on the great crisis that looms before us all.Table of ContentsForeword by Frédéric Louzeau1. The Great Clamor: Conversation with Antonio Spadaro, SJ2. Ecological Mutation and Christian Cosmology3. On a Decisive Overturning of the Schema of the End Times4. If You Lose the Earth, What Good Will It Do You to Have Saved Your Soul? Notes

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Book SynopsisHuman civilization is founded on ethical principles, norms of behaviour that have accumulated over time. Perhaps the oldest of ethical principles is the rejection of violence, which includes the respect for life and for the physical and psychological integrity of others. But, in some circumstances, violence itself can be regarded as ethical – for example, when it is used by states claiming to act in self-defence. In these circumstances, the need to defend oneself against an enemy can transform war from an unacceptable act into a necessary, socially shared and morally sanctioned choice. And it is when violence becomes ethical that we must begin to fear for our future. In the wake of the pandemic, we are witnessing the growing prevalence of aggression and emotionality in social and political life. We find ourselves living in an increasingly impatient and insecure society, which is sceptical of scientific thought and which takes refuge in the irrational. The decline of rationality and the growing prevalence of violence are increasingly common features of a society that has lost touch with the great Enlightenment narrative. We need, argues Bordoni, to rediscover the rationality we have lost and recuperate the positive side of technology.Trade Review"Carlo Bordoni has written a remarkable book. It should serve as a wakeup call to what is happening in terms of our increasing abandonment of science in favor of technology, which, by the very click-of -the-button nature has disastrously changed the perception of knowledge to mere personal opinions. Because of this imbalance, and its pocketbook nature, we are seeing an irrational drift in the nature of our societies democratic responses, and a revival of the predominance of the emotional which is gaining ground and dangerously altering the very nature of social and political life. Bordoni also warns of the difficulties of putting scattergun beliefs and notional opinions back into any agreed and rational collective order in the years ahead. An informed and challenging book."Mari Fitzduff, Brandeis University"Bordoni’s search for an understanding of the paradox of ethical violence – and of many other puzzles of human rationality and irrationality – takes him through many times and places of human history, a wealth of philosophers and others from the ancient Greeks to today’s writers, and a myriad of ideas. This is a book that makes you stop and think after nearly every sentence."Colin Crouch, University of Warwick"Ethical Violence is a timely book, a theoretical vade mecum for dark times, simultaneously ambitious and cautious, taking the reader on unusual paths from ancient philosophers to contemporary social scientists, questioning what is taken for granted about the distinction between rationality and irrationality. A needed reflection on the crisis of late modernity."Didier Fassin, Collège de France and Institute for Advanced Study, PrincetonTable of ContentsIntroduction: Living in Disturbing Times 1. Do We Live in the Most Rational of All Possible Worlds? 2. The Violence of Reason 3. Avoidable Conflicts 4. The Ethics of Violence 5. The Fault of Modernity 6. Only Technology Can Save Us

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Book SynopsisThere is a link between finance and paranoia, and that link may well be inescapable. At the core of financial imagination lies a notion of value of value creation' that is loaded with trouble. This is the trouble of a fragile metaphor: a metaphor of fecund money and future return, of true value and false value, of true value that should be protected from the perils of dilapidation, expropriation and speculation, but whose substance is in fact nowhere to be found. Contemporary conspiratorial, millennialist discourse on money, banking and wealth does not embody a delirious misrepresentation of the logic of finance: rather, it exacerbates the paranoid potentials inherent in mainstream financial imagination. This is the radical hypothesis developed in this book: that of paranoid finance as a sedimentation of the demons that haunt the conventional categories of financial value. Tutorials abound today that guarantee access to secret knowledge about the financial system, to magical

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Book SynopsisA physicians' guide to navigating retirement

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Book SynopsisDoing Ethnography is an essential text for courses in ethnography, research methods (qualitative emphasis), applied sociology, and related subjects across Canada. This unique volume first considers the merits of qualitative research, profiles interviewing strategies, and discusses the relationships to respondents and how to write about social life.The second portion of Doing Ethnography contains three sections: constructing perspectives, constructing identities, as well as doing and relating. Case studies and original research are featured throughout.The editors, Dorothy Pawluch, William Shaffir, and Charlene Miall, emphasize the importance of studying social interaction. ""In truth, any question about society, big or small, is ultimately about people interacting with each other. Whether the issue is changing gender relationships, corporate deeds and misdeeds, class structures, or the school performance of children from cultural minorities, it all comes down to one thing: people doing things together.Trade ReviewThe Canadian content is particularly interesting and important with regard to this book. The examples shown will relate easily to the life experiences of many Canadian students."" - Tanya Cassidy, University of WindsorTable of Contents Preface Introduction to Doing Ethnography: Studying Everyday Life Chapter 1: Studying Human Knowing and Acting: The Interactionist Quest for Authenticity - Robert Prus Part 1: Doing Ethnography: Challenges And Strategies Part 1A: Considering the Merits of Qualitative Research Chapter 2: Interpretive Practices and the Role of Qualitative Methods in Informing Large-Scale Survey Research - Charlene Miall and Karen March Chapter 3: The Charms and Challenges of an Academic Qualitative Researcher Doing Participatory Action Research (PAR) - Karen Szala-Meneok and Lynne Lohfeld Part 1B: Interviewing Strategies Chapter 4: Self-Presentation and Social Poetics: Active Interview Tactics in Research with Public Figures - Andrew D. Hathaway and Michael F. Atkinson Chapter 5: Conducting Field Research with Young Offenders Convicted of Murder and Manslaughter: Gaining Access, Risks, and ""Truth Status"" - Mark Totten and Katharine Kelly Chapter 6: Complex Needs and Complex Issues: How Responding to Ethnographic Fieldwork Contingencies Shaped a Study of Homelessness - Anne Wright Part 1C: Relating to Respondents Chapter 7: ""I'm Looking Forward to Hearing What You Found Out"": Reflections on a Critical Perspective and Some of Its Consequences - Gillian Ranson Chapter 8: Conducting Qualitative Research on Emotionally Upsetting Topics: Homicide and Those Left Behind - J. Scott Kenney Part 1D: Writing about Social Life Chapter 9: The Question of ""Whose Truth""?: The Privileging of Participant and Researcher Voices in Qualitative Research - Linda L. Snyder Chapter 10: Quote, Unquote: From Transcript to Text in Ethnographic Research - Katherine Bischoping Part 2: Ethnography In Process: Case Studies Of Everyday Life Part 2A: Constructing Perspectives Chapter 11: The Process of Caring: Nurses and Genetic Termination - Catherine Chiappetta-Swanson Chapter 12: Perceptions of Oncology Professionals' Work: Implications for Informal Carers, Implications for Health Systems - Christina Sinding Chapter 13: Gendered Experiences of HIV and Complementary Therapy Use - Dorothy Pawluch, Roy Cain, and James Gillett Chapter 14: Conflict and Abuse in Dating Relationships: Young Adult Women in University React to a Film Clip - Kristin L. Newman, Carmen Poulin, Bette L. Brazier, and Andrea L. Cashmore Chapter 15: Ethnographic Insights into the Hacker Subculture - Steven Kleinknecht Part 2B: Constructing Identities Chapter 16: Smoking and Self: Tobacco Use Effects on Young Women's Constructions of Self and Others - Florence June Kellner Chapter 17: Perceptions of Motherhood through the Lens of Adoption - Karen March Chapter 18: ""This Is Who I Really Am"": Obese Women's Conceptions of Self Following Weight Loss Surgery - Leanne Joanisse Chapter 19: Coping with Electoral Defeat: A Study of Involuntary Role Exit - William Shaffir and Steven Kleinknecht Chapter 20: Avoiding the Other: A Technique of Stigma Management among People Who Use Alternative Therapies - Jacqueline Low Part 2C: Doing and Relating Chapter 21: Negotiated Order and Strategic Inaction in Television Coverage of the Olympics - Josh Greenberg, Graham Knight, Margaret MacNeill, and Peter Donnelly Chapter 22: Advancing in the Amateur Chess World - Antony J. Puddephatt Chapter 23: Singing Out and Making Community: Gay Men and Choral Singing - Roy Cain Chapter 24: For Better and for Worse: Psychological Demands and Structural Impacts on Gay Servicewomen in the Military and Their Long-Term Partners - Lynne Gouliquer and Carmen Poulin Contributors' Biographies Copyright Acknowledgements Index

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Book SynopsisThis innovative new reader on contemporary sociological theory has a Canadian emphasis. This volume unites 21 influential European and American social theorists with 13 Canadian thinkers and writers to offer a strong Canadian interpretation of international theoretical currents spanning almost 80 years.Ideally designed for undergraduate courses as an introduction to modern sociological theory, the first section masterfully introduces the major theoretical offerings of the 20th century: structural functionalism, symbolic interaction, and feminist analysis. It also profiles themes of class conflict and the state; and modernism, culture, and change.The second section is devoted to critical themes for the 21st century. This includes postmodernity and its critics; society, subjects, and the self; globalization and global consciousness; and postcolonialism, diaspora, citizenship, and identity.Unique features of the book are its provocative presentation of 21st-century themes, and the inclusion of many of today's most influential social thinkers, such as Edward Said, Stuart Hall, Jurgen Habermas, Ulrich Beck, Jean Baudrillard, and Pierre Bourdieu.The Canadian content includes readings from key Canadian scholars and social critics, such as Dorothy Smith, Naomi Klein, Mariana Valverde, Leo Panitch, John Porter, Charles Taylor, David Lyon, and Will Kymlicka.This book will be an essential text for modern sociological theory courses offered in sociology departments across Canada.Trade ReviewThis selection of readings reflects the current state of modern social theory, and provides an excellent overview of a field in which few good anthologies exist."" - Tracey Adams, University of Western OntarioTable of Contents Introduction: Themes and Theories in Contemporary Sociological Thought Section 1: Theoretical Offerings Of The 20th Century Part I: Structural Functionalism Chapter 1: [Extracts from] The Social System - Talcott Parsons Chapter 2: Introduction to Social Theory and Social Structure - Robert K. Merton Part II: Class, Conflict, and the State Chapter 3: Class and Power: The Major Themes - John Porter Chapter 4: The Intellectuals - Antonio Gramsci Chapter 5: The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System: Concepts for Comparative Analysis - Immanuel Wallerstein Chapter 6: The Impoverishment of State Theory - Leo Panitch Part III: Perspectives in Symbolic Interaction Chapter 7: Society as Symbolic Interaction - Herbert Blumer Chapter 8: Introduction to The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life Chapter 9: Becoming a Marihuana User - Howard Becker Chapter 10: Symbolic Interactionism and Ethnomethodology: A Proposed Synthesis - Norman K. Denzin Part IV: Modernism, Culture, and Change Chapter 11: The Metropolis and Mental Life - Georg Simmel Chapter 12: The New Forms of Control - Herbert Marcuse Chapter 13: Modernity--An Incomplete Project - Jurgen Habermas Chapter 14: The Dynamics of the Fields - Pierre Bourdieu Chapter 15: Moral Capital - Mariana Valverde Part V: Feminist Social Thought Chapter 16: The Social Relation of the Sexes: Methodological Implications of Women's History - Joan Kelly-Gadol Chapter 17: Feminism and Marxism--A Place to Begin, A Way to Go - Dorothy Smith Chapter 18: The Significance of Feminism - bell hooks Section II: Critical Themes For The 21st Century Part VI: Postmodernism and Its Critics Chapter 19: Postmodernity: The History of an Idea - David Lyon Chapter 20: The End of Sociological Theory: The Postmodern Hope - Steven Seidman Chapter 21: Call Yourself a Sociologist--And You've Never Even Been Arrested?! - Marilyn Porter Chapter 22: Forward: On Being Light and Liquid - Zygmunt Bauman Chapter 23: [Extracts from] The Spirit of Terrorism and Requiem for the Twin Towers - Jean Baudrillard Part VII: Society, Subjects, and the Self Chapter 24: Reforming Foucault: A Critique of the Social Control Thesis - Dany Lacombe Chapter 25: The Emergence of Life Politics - Anthony Giddens Chapter 26: Introduction: The Cosmopolitan Manifesto - Ulrich Beck Part VIII: Globalization and Global Consciousness Chapter 27: Running Out of Control: Understanding Globalization - R. Alan Hedley Chapter 28: [Extracts from] Fences and Windoes: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate - Naomi Klein Chapter 29: Cosmopolitianism and the Future of Democracy: Politics, Culture, and the Self - Nick Stevenson Part IX: Postcolonialism, Diaspora, Citizenship, and Identity Chapter 30: Latent and Manifest Orientalism - Edward Said Chapter 31: Cultural Identity and Diaspora - Stuart Hall Chapter 32: Citizenship in an Era of Globalization - Will Kymlicka Chapter 33: The Politics of Recognition - Charles Taylor

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Book SynopsisUnique in scope and content, this methods-based text draws on the process of creating a digital archive of commemorative tattoos to examine the production and mobilization of knowledge across communities, disciplines, and space. Deborah Davidson’s multidisciplinary collection addresses the cultural history of tattooing and the social meanings and implications of commemorative tattoos—tattoos that hold significant value for their bearer.A practical resource for those undertaking archival research or collecting and sharing information across disciplines, this text acts as a template for building connections between academic and non-academic communities. Bridging the gap between theory and practice, The Tattoo Project offers critical insights and tools for courses focused on research methodologies and digital humanities, and provides innovative content for those studying the body, visual culture, and commemoration.Features highlights several case studies and personal narratives to contextualize theoretical and methodological approaches includes photographs of archival participants features accompanying poetry by award-winning poet Priscila Uppal The Tattoo Project digital archive provides additional supplementary materials including photos, videos, and narratives Trade Review“The Tattoo Project imaginatively blurs the lines between academic research and embodied narratives, scholarly knowledge and lived experiences. Methodologically ambitious, The Tattoo Project shows the multi-layered meanings behind commemorative tattoos, giving voice and space to the people who embody them. It also challenges us to re-think collaboration and community through the creation of an open digital archive that extends into the public sphere, and how the tattooed body is an inimitable archive in and of itself.” - Mary Kosut, School of Natural and Social Sciences, Purchase College, SUNY“As a unique form of human expression, tattooing transmits a vast body of information about who we are, where we come from, our desires and fears, and who we aspire to be. It offers one of the most powerful biographical, artistic, and intellectual statements on cultural diversity, visual communication, and commemorative agency. The authors of The Tattoo Project bring these profound perceptions to life, generating a timely interdisciplinary study that provides critical new understandings of body-marking and its role in self-making.” - Lars Krutak, Tattoo Anthropologist, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian InstitutionTable of Contents Chapter 1: Introducing The Tattoo Project, Deborah Davidson Section I. History, Culture, And Approach: An Overview Chapter 2: Memories on the Skin: A Brief Cultural History of Tattooing, Margo DeMello Chapter 3: Commemorative Tattoos as Visual-Material Media, Sara Martel Chapter 4: Between the Inside and the Outside: Commemorative Tattoos and the Externalization of Loss or Trauma, Andreas Kitzmann Chapter 5: Creative Methodologies, Gayle Letherby and Deborah Davidson Chapter 6: Tattooing as Auto/Biographical Method and Practice, Gayle Letherby and Deborah Davidson Chapter 7: Visual Research Methods: Memorial Tattoos as Memory-Realization, Deborah Davidson and Angelina Duhig Chapter 8: Inscribing Memory as a Social Process: The Tattoo Artist-Client Relationship, Arthur McLuhan, with Wayne Galbraith Section II. Written In The Flesh Poem. Not a Cliché, Priscila Uppal Photos Section III. Case Studies And Personal Narratives Chapter 9: ""Physical Words"": Scars, Tattoos, and Embodied Mourning, Kay Inckle Chapter 10: Enshrined in Flesh: Tattoos and Contemporary Women's Spirituality, Gina Snooks Chapter 11: Memorial Tattoos as Connection, Andrea Warnick and Lysa Toye Chapter 12: ""Ingulule Ayidli Ngamabala"": A Reflection on the Spotted Soloist, Siphiwe Ignatius Dube Chapter 13: I Am, Stephanie Pangowish Chapter 14: Tattoo Memoir, Dave Mazierski Chapter 15: Why I Get Tattoos: A Personal Perspective on Tattoos and Commemoration, Craig Roxborough Section IV. The Tattoo Project: A Community Under Construction Chapter 16: What Is an Archive? Creators, Functions, and Value in Archival Practice, Lisa Darms Chapter 17: Public Sociology and Digital Culture, Ariane Hanemaayer and Christopher J. Schneider Chapter 18: Technology Design to Support Commemorative Tattoo Practice, Melanie Baljko Chapter 19: The Coming Together of a Community of Practice: Commemorative Tattoos as Visual Culture for Community Engagement and Identity Formation, Anabel Quan-Haase Chapter 20: Knowledge Mobilization: Engaging Beyond the Academy Walls, Krista Jensen Reflection, Deborah Davidson Author Biographies

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Book SynopsisI highly recommAnd Quickening as an extremely useful and practicalguide. It reaffirms that personal and social change areintertwined; that each of us counts; that our lives do make adifference; and that, through involvement and by developing ourskills, we can make an even greater difference. --ReverAnd Jesse L. Jackson, president and founder, NationalRainbow Coalition An antidote to cynicism . . . an essential 'how-to' manual foranyone interested in translating values into positiveresults. --Ben Cohen, Ben & Jerry's Exploding the popular myths about public life, power, andself-interest that stop individuals from discovering the rewards ofpublic involvement, this thoughtful resource offers practicaladvice from ordinary Americans on how to get more involved. Detailsguidelines anyone can use to master the skills required to beeffective in public life.Trade Review``I highly recommAnd Quickening as an extremely useful andpractical guide. It reaffirms that personal and social change areintertwined; that each of us counts; that our lives do make adifference; and that, through involvement and by developing ourskills, we can make an even greater difference.'' (ReverAnd JesseL. Jackson, president and founder, National RainbowCoalition) "An antidote to cynicism ... an essential 'how-to' manual foranyone interested in translating values into positive results."(Ben Cohen, Ben & Jerry's) "One of the few truly optimistic books about the state of thecountry today. The book is as much a storehouse of life-changingideas that work as a you-take-charge manual on how to understandeconomics, power, teamwork, the media, corporate strategies and'living demoncracy.'" "In their accessible, emphatically interactive volume, Lappea andDu Bois challenge debilitating myths about democracy, public life,self-interest, and power; discuss the one-on-one skills (activelistening, creative conflict, mediation, and negotiation) and theskills for use in group settings (political imagination, publicdialogue, public judgment, celebration and appreciation, evaluationand reflection, and mentoring) that are essential elements inbuilding a 'culture of democracy.'" ``The Quickening of America is as urgent and important as any bookpublished in yearsbut, unlike many, it is also of real use toordinary people.'' (Jonathon Kozol, author of SavageInequalities) ``Fascinating stories and insights from Americans who are learningthat democracy is about much more than what happens in Washington.Lappea and Du Bois reveal a new practice of democracy as citizenproblem solvingin our schools, communities, and workplaces. Apowerful antidote to despairhard hitting yet hopeful.'' (HenryCisneros, secretary, Department of Housing and UrbanDevelopment) ``In The Quickening of America I learned how to movewith power,effectiveness, and good humorbeyond self-imposed limits.... Weregular people can and must make history.'' (Randy Hayes, director,Rainforest Action Network) ``After years of listening to regular women and men at thegrassroots, the authors have distilled hundreds of inspiringsuccess stories into a unique `how-to' book, infusing the conceptsof `democracy', `power', and `public life' with vibrant new meaningand challenging us to profoundly rethink our lives.'' (FritjofCapra, founder and president, The Elmwood Institute, and author ofThe Tao of Physics) ``As an elected official who longs for more empowered citizens, Ihope thousands of people will read this book, where they willdiscover again what hard work, but also what satisfying work,democracy can be.'' (Daniel Kemmis, mayor, City of Missoula,Montana) ``Lappea and Du Bois are chroniclers of changein the way we thinkabout ourselves and the world in which we live.... [a] convincingand refreshing reaffirmation of the democratic process.'' (PatrickJ. Leahy, senator, State of Vermont)Table of ContentsOVERCOMING THE MYTHS THAT LIMIT US. 1. A Powerful New Concept for Effective Living. 2. We Each Have a Public Life. 3. Claiming Our Self-Interest (It's Not Selfishness). 4. Discovering Power (It's Not a Dirty Word). AMERICA COMING ALIVE: THE INVISIBLE REVOLUTION. 5. Our Jobs, Our Economy, and Our Lives. 6. Making the Media Our Voice. 7. From Client to Citizen. 8. Governing "By the People". 9. Educating Real-World Problem Solvers. LIVING DEMOCRACY: THE PRACTICAL TOOLS. 10. Mastering the Arts of Democracy: One-on-One Skills. 11. Mastering the Arts of Democracy: Group Skills. 12. Embracing the Democratic Self. 13. What, No Manifesto? Resources for Building a Living Democracy.

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Book SynopsisA new division has emerged in the social sciences between modernists and their post-modern critics. The former defend the project of a general theory with secure analytical foundations; the latter challenge the possibility and indeed the desirability of aspiring to create totalizing theories. Postmodernists contest the view of science as an autonomous sphere of knowledge and reflection. This volume brings together leading theorists in the social sciences and philosophy to debate the respective merits of modernism and postmodernism as paradigms of social inquiry. It examines the relation between science, critique and narrative, addressing questions about the moral and political meaning of science today.Table of ContentsList of Contributors vii Introduction 1 Part I Toward Postmodernism: Reconfiguring Theory and Politics 1 General Social Theory, Irony, Postmodernism 17 2 Postmodern Social Theory as Narrative with a Moral Intent 47 3 On the Postmodern Barricades: Feminism, Politics, and Theory 82 4 The Strange Life and Hard Times of the Concept of General Theory in Sociology: A Short History of Hope 101 Part II Critics of Postmodernism: In Defense of Scientific Theory 5 Defending Social Science against the Postmodern Doubt 137 6 The Promise of Positivism 156 7 The Confusion of the Modes of Sociology 179 8 Daring Modesty: On Metatheory, Observation, and Theory Growth 199 Part III Between Modernism and Postmodernism: Toward a Contextualizing General Theory 9 Social Science and Society as Discourse: Toward a Sociology for Civic Competence 223 10 Culture, History, and the Problem of Specificity in Social Theory 244 11 The Tensions of Critical Theory: Is Negative Dialectics All There Is? 289 12 General Theory in the Postpositivist Mode: The "Epistemological Dilemma" and the Search for Present Reason 322 Name Index 369 Subject Index 376

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Book SynopsisIn this outstanding reinterpretation - and extension - of the Critical Theory tradition, Craig Calhoun surveys the origins, fortunes and prospects of this most influential of theoretical approaches. Moving with ease from the early Frankfurt School to Habermas, to contemporary debates over postmodernism, feminism and nationalism, Calhoun breathes new life into Critical Social Theory, showing how it can learn from the past and contribute to the future.Trade Review"This is social theory at its very best. In a host of domains - concerning cultural difference, postmodernism, the politics of identity, and nationalism - Calhoun breaks new ground." Charles Taylor "This is a very well informed and very rigorous critical survey of Critical Social Theory." Pierre Bourdieu "A brilliant synthesis of theory and history: Calhoun works at the cutting edge, facing the future but carrying his traditions with him." Peter Beilharz "This book explores Critical Theory's origins, but more importantly it also shows how certain contemporary writers, despite not usually being recognised as such, have as much claim to the title 'critical theorist' as did Adorno and Horkheimer. It is this essential extension of critical analysis into today's body of theoretical concerns that gives the book its particular importance." Alan SicaTable of ContentsIntroduction. 1. Rethinking Critical Theory. 2. Interpretation, Comparison and Critique. 3. Cultural Difference and Historical Specificity. 4. Postmodernism as Pseudohistory: The Trivialization of Epochal Change. 5. Habitus, Field and Capital: Historical Specificity in the Theory of Practice. 6. The Standpoint of Critique? Feminist Theory, Social Structure and Learning from Experience. 7. The Politics of Identity and Recognition. 8. Nationalism and Difference: The Politics of Identity Writ Large. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisSymbolic interactionism is one of the most enduring - and certainly the most sociological - of all social psychologies. In this landmark work, Norman K. Denzin traces its tortured history from its roots in American pragmatism to its present-day encounter with poststructuralism and postmodernism. Arguing that if interactionism is to continue to thrive and grow it must incorporate elements of post structural and post-modern theory into its underlying views of history, culture and politics, the author develops a research agenda which merges the interactionist sociological imagination with the critical insights on contemporary feminism and cultural studies. Norman Denzin's programmatic analysis of symbolic interactionism, which develops a politics of interpretation merging theory and practice, will be welcomed by students and scholars in a wide range of disciplines, from sociology to cultural studies.Trade Review"In this book, Denzin has saved a place for and makes reference to virtually every sociologist working under the rubric of SI today." Joseph A. KotarbaTable of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface. Preface. 1. The Interactionist Heritage. 2. The Interpretive Heritage. 3. Critique and Renewal: Links to Cultural Studies. 4. Enter Cultural Studies. 5. Communications as the Interactionist Problematic. 6. Interactionist Cultural Criticism. 7. Into Politics. References. Index.

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Book SynopsisIn Social Evolutionism Stephen Sanderson provide a lucid account of a body of theory that has profoundly affected both intellectual and popular assumptions about human nature, society, and behavior. He describes the prominent and controversial role that evolutionary ideas have played in the development of social theory. He demonstrates the diversity of evolutionary ideas by comparing their notions of causation, their assumptions about human progress, and the adequacy of their modes of explanation and interpretation of evidence. Although he is highly critical of some aspects of evolutionary thinking and some modes of evolutionism, Professor Sanderson shows that an evolutionary interpretation of world history contributes vital insights about the character of human social life.Trade Review"Sanderson writes with admirable clarity, and with a relaxed, easy-going (yet unpatronizing) style. There is none of the jargon and intellectual pomposity that afflict so much writing in sociological and anthropological theory. Indeed, the book would be readily comprehensive to a virtual beginner with little or no previous knowledge of the field." The Times Higher Education Supplement "Everything graduate students want to prepare for their generals: a succinct, clear presentation of over a century of evolutionary thinking in the social sciences, with incisive criticisms. The main strands of social evolutionism are skillfully disentangled are related to biological evolutionism. I can think of no better text to use in any course on sociological theory." Pierre van den Berghe "One of the most important books i have read in recent years. It cuts through the nihilism and antiscientism of the past decade with a splandidly shiny sciences... His expositions of the works of leading figures make for one brilliant tour de force after another." Marvin Harris "The text is superb. It is easily the outstanding treatment of the subject in print. It deserves wide currency and should becmoe the standard textbook for any sociology or anthropology course on sociocultural evolution." Robert L CarneiroTable of Contents1. The Nature of Social Evolutionism 2. Classical Evolutionism 3. The Antievolutionary Reaction 4. Marxism as Evolutionism 5. The Evolutionary Revival 6. Sociological Neoevolutionism 7. Anthropological Evolutionism since 1960 8. Evolutionary Biology and Social Evolutionism 9. Contemporary Antievolutionism 10. Toward a Comprehensive Theory of Sociocultural Evolution References.

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Book SynopsisTalcott Parsons has been one of the most influential American sociologists of the postwar period. Bryan Turner's selections from Parsons' work provide a comprehensive overview of his principal contributions and are grouped under the following subdivisions: religion and modern society; life, sex, and death; sociological theory; and American society and the world order. These selections offer an exposition of the core features of Parsons' sociology and demonstrate his continuing relevance to critical issues today, including globalization, the place of American civilization in the world order, and the importance of sociological theory as an analysis of modern culture.Trade Review"With this astute and illuminating collection, Turner demonstrates for contemporary readers why Talcott Parsons is regarded as the dominant sociological theorist of the mid-twentieth century, and one of the master narrators of modernity. Ranging from economics and global power to considerations of youth, sickness, and death, these empirically-oriented selections reveal the vast scope of Parson’s thought." – Jeffrey Alexander, University of California at Los Angeles "Parsons once described himself as an ‘incurable theorist’. This excellent collection of essays reveals a practical sociologist possessing great insight into the modern condition. Professor Turner has done a real service in reminding us of the substantive issues to which Parsons’s theoretical efforts were ultimately directed, issues which are as central to the discipline now as when Parsons was writing." – John Holmwood, University of EdinburghTable of ContentsAcknowledgments. Introduction: The Contributions of Talcott Parsons to the Study of Modernity. Part I: Religion and Modern Society:. 1. Christianity and Modern Industrial Society. 2. Belief, Unbelief and Disbelief. 3. Religous Symbolization and Death. 4. The Symbolic Environment of Modern Economies. Part II: Life, Sex and Death: . 5. Illness and the Role of the Physician. 6. Towards a Healthy Maturity. 7. The Gift of Life and Its Reciprocation. Part III: Sociological Theory:. 8. The Theoretical Development of the Sociology of Religion. 9. Evolutionary Universals in Society. 10. Pattern Variables Revisited. Part IV: American Society and the World Order: . 11. Social Strains in America. 12. The Distribution of Power in American Society. 13. Order and Community in the International Social System. 14. Polarization of the World and International Order. 15. Youth in the Context of American Society. 16. Death in American Society. 17. Religion in Post-Industrial America. Bibliography of Talcott Parsons. Selected Bibliograpy (in English) on the Sociology of Talcott Parsons. Chronologyy of the Life of Talcott Parsons. Index.

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Book SynopsisFirst English language collection of the writing of French social critic, Paul Virilio. This volume represents his most important work, including five new translations and an exclusive interview with Virlio conducted by the editor reflecting the diverse career of this great social commentator on life in the late twentieth century.Trade Review"... the material could not be in better editorial hands. If there is a scholar within contemporary international relations who has done as much as Virilio outside it to investigate these sort of concerns, and who has the breadth of knowledge and the linguistic and intellectual engagement to offer an overall account of Virilio's corpus, it is Der Derian. His introduction to this volume is characteristically well written, thoughtful, wryly amusing and a model of concise exposition. His interview with Virilio, which forms two chapters of the book, is both a real dialogue and at the same time an illuminating tour d'horizon of Virilio's concerns. Whether you agree or disagree, with Virilio or Der Derian or both, try this book for you will be confronted with an elegant sampling of wide and pespicacious oeuvre that deals with important and difficult issues: a Virilio reader indeed." Nicholas Rengger, University of St Andrews Table of ContentsAcknowledgments. Preface. Introduction by James Der Derian. 1. Interview: Is the Author Dead?. 2. Military Space. 3. The Suicidal State. 4. The State of Emergency. 5. The Critical Space. 6. The Strategy Beyond. 7. A Travelling Shot Over Eighty Years. 8. Polar Inertia. 9. The Vision Machine. 10. The Art of the Motor. 11. The Desert Screen. 12. Continental Drift. A Select Bibliography of Works by Paul Virilio. Index

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Book SynopsisThis book engages with the politics of social and environmental justice, and seeks new ways to think about the future of urbanization in the twenty-first century. It establishes foundational concepts for understanding how space, time, place and nature - the material frames of daily life - are constituted and represented through social practices, not as separate elements but in relation to each other. It describes how geographical differences are produced, and shows how they then become fundamental to the exploration of political, economic and ecological alternatives to contemporary life. The book is divided into four parts. Part I describes the problematic nature of action and analysis at different scales of time and space, and introduces the reader to the modes of dialectical thinking and discourse which are used throughout the remainder of the work. Part II examines how "nature" and "environment" have been understood and valued in relation to processes of social change and seeks, from this basis, to make sense of contemporary environmental issues. Part III, is a wide-ranging discussion of history, geography and culture, explores the meaning of the social "production" of space and time, and clarifies problems related to "otherness" and "difference". The final part of the book deploys the foundational arguments the author has established to consider contemporary problems of social justice that have resulted from recent changes in geographical divisions of labor, in the environment, and in the pace and quality of urbanization. Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference speaks to a wide readership of students of social, cultural and spatial theory and of the dynamics of contemporary life. It is a convincing demonstration that it is both possible and necessary to value difference and to seek a just social order.Trade Review Table of ContentsThoughts for a Prologue. Introduction. Part I: Orientations. 1. Militant Particularism and Global Ambition. 2. Dialectics. 3. A Cautionary Tale on Internal Relations. 4. The Dialectics of Discourse. 5. Historical Agency and the Loci of Social Change. Part II: The Nature of Environment. Prologue. 6. The Domination of Nature and its Discontents. 7. Valuing Nature. 8. The Dialectics of Social and Environmental Change. Part III: Space, Time and Place. Prologue. 9. The Social Construction of Space and Time. 10. The Currency of Space-Time. 11. From Space to Place and Back Again. Part IV: Justice, Difference and Politics. Prologue. 12. Class Relations, Social Justice and the Political Geography of Difference. 13. The Environment of Justice. 14. Possible Urban Worlds. Thoughts for an Epilogue. Bibliography. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe Goffman Reader aims to bring the most complete collection of Erving Goffman's (1922-1982) writing and thinking as a sociologist. Among the most inventive, unique and individualistic of thinkers in American sociology, his works first appeared in the early 1950's at a time when a more formal, traditional sociology dominated the scene. In this collection, Goffman's work is arranged into four categories: the production of self, the confined self, the nature of social life, and the framing of experience. Through this arrangement, readers will not only be presented with Goffman's thinking in chronological order, but also with a framework of analysis that clearly introduces the social theoretical ideas by which Goffman shaped the direction of sociological thought through the late twentieth century.Trade Review"Now, thanks to a well-conceived and elegantly introduced selection of his writings by Charles Lemert and Ann Branaman, those familiar with Goffman can be stimulated once more." Charles Edgley, Oklahoma State University "As readers go, this one, like the genius it celebrates, is truly something special." Charles Edgley, Oklahoma State UniversityTable of Contents"Goffman" by Charles Lemert. Goffman's Social Theory by Ann Branaman. Part I: The Production of Self:. 1. Self Claims On Cooling the Mark Out: Some Aspects of Adaptation to Failure. 2. Self-Presentation The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. 3. The Self as Ritual Object The Nature of Deference and Demeanor. 4. The Self and Social Roles Role Distance. Part II: The Nature of Social Life:. 5. Social Life as Drama The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. 6. Social Life as Ritual On Face-Work The Structure and Function of Situational Properties Supportive and Remedial Interchanges. 7. Social Life as Game Fun in Games Where the Action Is Strategic Interaction. Part III: The Confined Self: . 8. Status, Territory, and the Self Territories of the Self. 9. The Mortified Self On the Characteristics of Total Institutions The Moral Career of the Mental Patient. 10. The Stigmatized Self Stigma. 11. The Recalcitrant Self The Underlife of a Public Institution. Part IV: Frames and the Organization of Experience:. 12. Frame Analysis Frame Analysis. 13. Frame Analysis of Talk Felicitys Condition. 14. The Frame Analysis of Gender The Arrangement Between the Sexes Gender Displays. 15. Social Interaction and Social Structure. The Neglected Situation. The Interaction Order. Bibliography: Erving Goffmans Writings. Bibliography: Secondary Literature. Acknowledgements. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe Goffman Reader aims to bring the most complete collection of Erving Goffman's (1922-1982) writing and thinking as a sociologist. Among the most inventive, unique and individualistic of thinkers in American sociology, his works first appeared in the early 1950's at a time when a more formal, traditional sociology dominated the scene. In this collection, Goffman's work is arranged into four categories: the production of self, the confined self, the nature of social life, and the framing of experience. Through this arrangement, readers will not only be presented with Goffman's thinking in chronological order, but also with a framework of analysis that clearly introduces the social theoretical ideas by which Goffman shaped the direction of sociological thought through the late twentieth century.Trade Review"Now, thanks to a well-conceived and elegantly introduced selection of his writings by Charles Lemert and Ann Branaman, those familiar with Goffman can be stimulated once more." Charles Edgley, Oklahoma State University "As readers go, this one, like the genius it celebrates, is truly something special." Charles Edgley, Oklahoma State UniversityTable of Contents"Goffman" by Charles Lemert. Goffman's Social Theory by Ann Branaman. Part I: The Production of Self:. 1. Self Claims On Cooling the Mark Out: Some Aspects of Adaptation to Failure. 2. Self-Presentation The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. 3. The Self as Ritual Object The Nature of Deference and Demeanor. 4. The Self and Social Roles Role Distance. Part II: The Nature of Social Life:. 5. Social Life as Drama The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. 6. Social Life as Ritual On Face-Work The Structure and Function of Situational Properties Supportive and Remedial Interchanges. 7. Social Life as Game Fun in Games Where the Action Is Strategic Interaction. Part III: The Confined Self: . 8. Status, Territory, and the Self Territories of the Self. 9. The Mortified Self On the Characteristics of Total Institutions The Moral Career of the Mental Patient. 10. The Stigmatized Self Stigma. 11. The Recalcitrant Self The Underlife of a Public Institution. Part IV: Frames and the Organization of Experience:. 12. Frame Analysis Frame Analysis. 13. Frame Analysis of Talk Felicitys Condition. 14. The Frame Analysis of Gender The Arrangement Between the Sexes Gender Displays. 15. Social Interaction and Social Structure. The Neglected Situation. The Interaction Order. Bibliography: Erving Goffmans Writings. Bibliography: Secondary Literature. Acknowledgements. Index.

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Book SynopsisInternational Social Movement Research

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Book SynopsisThis is the sixth volume in a series dedicated to publishing current research and conceptual papers in the broad ranging area of the sociology of health.Table of ContentsOrganisational theory in the case and care management of health care, Gary L. Albrecht and Karen E. Peters; com-munities of care - a theoretical perspective on case manage-ment models in mental health, Bernice A. Pescosolido, Eric R. Wright and Patrick Sullivan; case management across organ-isational boundaries, Susan Hughes; case management - it is "cost" management for employee health benefits?, Judith Barr; professionals and laypeople in the management of a chronic illness in children - the care performed by families compared to medical teams, Renee Waissman; community-based case management for active injecting drug users, Judith A. Levy, Teri Strenski and Daniel J. Amick; developing community resources for a stigmatised population, Lawrence J. Ouellet, Matta Kelley, Andrea Coward and W. Wayne Wiebel; case manager and client - process analysis of the relationship in a short-term programme for drug injection users and sex partners, Victor Lidz and Martin Y. Iguchi; the impact of short term case management on cancer patients' needs and quality of life, Vince Mor, Margaret Wool, Edward Gundagnoli and Susan Allen; assessing the implementation of a case management intervention for the homeless, Cheryl I. Hultman, Kendon J. Conrad, Annie R. Pope, William C. Baxter, Joe Lisiecki and Phil Elbaum; database management systems for case management programmes, Colleen Monahan, Mary Szpur, Rosemary Manago, and Kathryn Smith; evaluating the cost effectiveness of case management, Robert J. Rydman.

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Book SynopsisSince 1972 the Rainbow Family of Living Light, a loosely organized and anarchistic nomadic community, has been holding large gatherings in remote forests to pray for world peace and create a model of a functioning utopian society. Michael I. Niman’s People of the Rainbow, originally published in 1997, was the first comprehensive study of this countercultural group and its eclectic philosophy of environmentalism, feminism, peace activism, group sharing, libertarianism, and consensus government. It is a book yet to be superseded. This second edition of Niman’s compelling and insightful work brings the Rainbow story up to date with a new introduction and two extensive new epilogues. While the big annual Rainbow “Gatherings” have drawn fewer numbers in recent years, Niman notes, the Rainbow ethos has in many ways migrated to the mainstream, as Rainbow notions about alternative medicine and environmental sustainability, for example, have gathered wider acceptance and influenced the national dialogue. Meanwhile, Rainbow movements in other regions, from Eastern Europe and the Middle East to Asia and Australia, are thriving. In addition to addressing changes within the Rainbow Family and its complex relationship to “Babylon” (what Rainbows call mainstream culture), the book’s new material explores the growing harassment Rainbows now face from U.S. law enforcement agencies— especially those associated with the National Forest Service. As Niman contends, this particular saga of a U.S. bureaucracy at war with its own citizens is a subplot in the larger—and disturbing—story of how the relationship between Americans and their government has changed during the first decade of the twenty-first century. In its nuanced portrait of an intriguing subculture, its successes, and its limitations, People of the Rainbow remains a significant contribution to the study of utopian communities in the United States and their ongoing legacy. Michael I. Niman is a professor of journalism and media studies in the Communication Department at Buffalo State College in New York. For additional resources related to this new edition, see http://buffalostate.edu/peopleoftherainbow.

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Book SynopsisNonviolent Social Movements is the first book to offer a truly global overview of the dramatic growth of popular nonviolent struggles in recent years.Trade Review"At the end of the bloodiest century in human history it is vital that we learn how to solve problems and generate effective social and political change non-violently. This book demonstrates that many brave people in diverse political situations are effective because they have decided that the means are as important as the ends, that one does not defeat evil with more evil, repression with repression, violence with violence. Scholars and activists alike will find much to ponder in this collection. I commend it to everyone with an interest in the future of the human species." Kevin Clements, George Mason University "This is an excellent collection of case studies knitted together by the editors' presentation of a sound set of theoretical issues. Both help us understand the dynamics of nonviolent social movements." Paul Joseph, Tufts University "A timely book." Pacifica ReviewTable of ContentsSources and Acknowledgments. Notes on Editors and Contributors. Introduction. PART I. PERSPECTIVES ON NONVIOLENT MOVEMENTS. 1. Nonviolence and Power in the Twentieth Century (Kenneth E. Boulding). 2. You Can’t Kill the Spirit: Women and Nonviolent Action (Pam McAllister). PART II. THE MIDDLE EAST. Introduction. 3. Unarmed Resistance in the Middle East and North Africa (Stephen Zunes). 4. Nonviolent Resistance in the Occupied Territories: A Critical Reevaluation (Souad Dajani). PART III. EUROPE. Introduction. 5. The Grassroots Movement in Germany, 1972-1985 (Matthew Lyons). 6. "We Have Bare Hands": Nonviolent Social Movements in the Soviet Bloc (Lee Smithey and Lester R. Kurtz). PART IV. ASIA. Introduction. 7. The Origins of People Power in the Philippines (Stephen Zunes). 8. Imagery in the 1992 Nonviolent Uprising in Thailand (Chaiwat Satha-Anand). 9. Violent and Nonviolent Struggle in Burma: Is a Unified Strategy Workable (Michael A. Beer). PART V. AFRICA. Introduction. 10. The Ogoni Struggle for Human Rights and a Civil Society in Nigeria (Joshua Cooper). 11. The Role of Nonviolence in the Downfall of Apartheid (Stephen Zunes). PART VI. LATIN AMERICA. Introduction. 12. Advocating Nonviolent Direct Action In Latin America: The Antecedents and Emergence of SERPAJ (Ronald Pagnucco and John D. McCarthy). 13. The Brazilian Church-State Crisis of 1980: Effective Nonviolent Action in a Military Dictatorship (Daniel Zirker). PART VII. NORTH AMERICA. Introduction. 14. Nonviolent Social Movements in the United States: A Historical Overview (Charles Chatfield). Conclusion (Stephen Zunes and Lester R. Kurtz). Index.

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Book SynopsisNonviolent Social Movements is the first book to offer a truly global overview of the dramatic growth of popular nonviolent struggles in recent years.Trade Review"At the end of the bloodiest century in human history it is vital that we learn how to solve problems and generate effective social and political change non-violently. This book demonstrates that many brave people in diverse political situations are effective because they have decided that the means are as important as the ends, that one does not defeat evil with more evil, repression with repression, violence with violence. Scholars and activists alike will find much to ponder in this collection. I commend it to everyone with an interest in the future of the human species." Kevin Clements, George Mason University "This is an excellent collection of case studies knitted together by the editors' presentation of a sound set of theoretical issues. Both help us understand the dynamics of nonviolent social movements." Paul Joseph, Tufts University "A timely book." Pacifica ReviewTable of ContentsSources and Acknowledgments. Notes on Editors and Contributors. Introduction. PART I. PERSPECTIVES ON NONVIOLENT MOVEMENTS. 1. Nonviolence and Power in the Twentieth Century (Kenneth E. Boulding). 2. You Can’t Kill the Spirit: Women and Nonviolent Action (Pam McAllister). PART II. THE MIDDLE EAST. Introduction. 3. Unarmed Resistance in the Middle East and North Africa (Stephen Zunes). 4. Nonviolent Resistance in the Occupied Territories: A Critical Reevaluation (Souad Dajani). PART III. EUROPE. Introduction. 5. The Grassroots Movement in Germany, 1972-1985 (Matthew Lyons). 6. "We Have Bare Hands": Nonviolent Social Movements in the Soviet Bloc (Lee Smithey and Lester R. Kurtz). PART IV. ASIA. Introduction. 7. The Origins of People Power in the Philippines (Stephen Zunes). 8. Imagery in the 1992 Nonviolent Uprising in Thailand (Chaiwat Satha-Anand). 9. Violent and Nonviolent Struggle in Burma: Is a Unified Strategy Workable (Michael A. Beer). PART V. AFRICA. Introduction. 10. The Ogoni Struggle for Human Rights and a Civil Society in Nigeria (Joshua Cooper). 11. The Role of Nonviolence in the Downfall of Apartheid (Stephen Zunes). PART VI. LATIN AMERICA. Introduction. 12. Advocating Nonviolent Direct Action In Latin America: The Antecedents and Emergence of SERPAJ (Ronald Pagnucco and John D. McCarthy). 13. The Brazilian Church-State Crisis of 1980: Effective Nonviolent Action in a Military Dictatorship (Daniel Zirker). PART VII. NORTH AMERICA. Introduction. 14. Nonviolent Social Movements in the United States: A Historical Overview (Charles Chatfield). Conclusion (Stephen Zunes and Lester R. Kurtz). Index.

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Book SynopsisEdited by Susan M. Alt Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry Jim Skibo, Series Editor Anthropology and Archaeology Many archaeologists have long been frustrated with the traditional, reductionist representation of complexity. Yet, even after years of debate, there seem to be never ending disagreements over the complexity of places like Chaco Canyon, Cahokia, and Poverty Point. This matters, because there are political and scholarly implications to calling any place or people more or less complex. In North America especially, given historical biases and the mound-builder myth, archaeologists need to rethink complexity as they seek to explain the past. Based on a Society of American Archaeology symposium, Ancient Complexities offers a current overview of what is meant by cultural complexity and how archaeologists study the development of complex societies in North America. Taking a critical look at how accepted definitions of complexity have bounded our thinking about ancient societies, this volume presents new theoretical perspectives and states a case for the need for different definitions in order to move this discussion ahead. This collection by scholars of North American archaeology is a must read for anyone wishing to be abreast of the most current dialogue on complexity taking place in modern archaeology.Table of ContentsSusan Alt, ed., Ancient Complexities: Contents List of FiguresList of Tables1. Considering Complexity: Confounding Categories with Practices Susan M. Alt2. (E)mergent Complexities during the Archaic Period in Northeast Florida Asa R. Randall and Kenneth E. Sassaman3. Hunter-Gatherer Ritual and Complexity: New Evidence from Poverty Point, Louisiana Tristram R. Kidder4. Practicing Complexity (Past and Present) at Kolomoki Thomas J. Pluckhahn5. Sacrificing Complexity: Renewal through Ohio Hopewell Rituals Bretton Giles6. Mobile Farmers and Sedentary Models: Horticulture and Cultural Transitions in Late Woodland and Contact Period New England Elizabeth S. Chilton7. Confounding Kinship: Ritual Regional Organization in Northern Michigan, A.D. 1200-1600 Meghan C. L. Howey8. Complexity in Action(s): Retelling the Cahokia Story Susan M. Alt9. Categories of Complexity and the Preclusion of Practice Jon Bernard Marcoux and Gregory D. Wilson10. Landscapes of Complexity in the U.S. Southwest: The Hohokam, Chacoans, and Peer Polity Interaction Jill E. Neitzel11. The Good Gray Intermediate: Why Native Societies of North America Can't Be States Stephen H. Lekson12. A People’s History of the American Southwest Severin Fowles13. Downsizers, Upgraders, Cultural Constructors, and Social Producers Robert Chapman14. The Unbearable Lightness of Complexity Norman YoffeeList of ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisThe Ute people of White Mesa have a long, colorful, but neglected history in the Four Corners region. Although they ranged into the Great Basin, Southwest, and parts of the Rocky Mountains as hunters, gatherers, and warriors, southeastern Utah was home. There they adapted culturally and physically to the austere environment while participating in many of the well-known events of their times. In As If the Land Owned Us, Robert McPherson has gathered the wisdom of White Mesa elders as they imparted knowledge about their land - place names, uses, teachings, and historic events tied to specific sites - providing a fresh insight into the lives of these little-known people. While there have been few published studies about the Southern Utes, this ethnohistory is the first to mix cultural and historic events. The book illustrates the life and times of the White Mesa Utes as they faced multiple changes to their lifeways. It is time for their history to be told in their terms.Trade Review“McPherson’s ethnohistory of the White Mesa Ute people is exceptional. It is story and document, combining indigenous voices with non-Native accounts into a superbly crafted whole. It serves as a worthy model for any history—regional, ethnic, or otherwise—well fulfilling the author’s aim to provide a ‘bridge to contemporary generations’  for a long forgotten people, their places, and times.”—Catherine S. Fowler, University of Nevada, Reno "An essential source on the White Mesa Ute Indians. Setting the tone for each chapter, a moving introductory quotation from a Ute speaker illustrates attitudes and beliefs of the people, and the author offers several personal descriptions of people and places. A remarkable number of photographs, archival and contemporary, complement the narrative."—Colorado Book ReviewTable of ContentsList of MapsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. White Mesa Ute Origins and PuwÁ-v: Creating the World, Empowering the Universe2. “It Was as If the Land Owned Us”: Ties to the Land, Resources for the People3. Daily Life in an Austere Environment: Weenuche Beliefs and Life Cycle, 1880s4. The Invasion Begins: Hispanic Entradas, American Trade, and the Mormon Mission, 1600–18555. “Enemies Like a Road Covered with Ice”: Expanding Weenuche Dominance, 1855–18706. Decade of Decision, 1870–1880: Losing Land, Gaining Restrictions7. Stemming the Flood, 1880–1882: Miners, Cowboys, and Settlers8. Winning the Battles, Losing the War: Military Operations and Cowboy Incursions, 1882–18859. Agony with Little Ecstasy: Hunting, Travel, and Subsistence Curtailment, 1885–189510. The Replevied Present: San Juan County, the Southern Utes, and What Might Have Been, 1895–190011. “Only Bullets Talk Now”: Turmoil and Dissent in a Shrinking World, 1900–191512. Posey and the Last White Uprising: Ending the Cycle of Violence, 1915–192313. Avikan: Remembering the Homeland, 1923–194114. Education, Economics, and Integration: Establishing the White Mesa Community, 1923–196015. People and Perception: Neighbors’ Views Across a Chasm, 1860–196016. Circles, Trees, and Bears: Empowering the Weenuche Universe17. Adoption, Adaptation, and Abandonment: Changing Weenuche Religious Practices, 1900–201018. Ironic Industries and Traditional Ties: Shifting Fortunes of the White Mesa Utes, 1950–2010EpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisWhen Harold F. Pape moved to Gregory, Texas, in 1927, he quickly became fascinated by the wealth of Native American artifacts along the nearby shoreline of Corpus Christi Bay and what is now called Port Bay, a southern arm of the larger Copano Bay.A lifelong natural history enthusiast and collector, Pape met and married Lucile H. Tunnell, a widow with three young sons. Before long, John W. Tunnell, Lucile's oldest son, was accompanying Pape on his field studies in surrounding areas and the wider Texas Coastal Bend. Working in the days before much of the development that now covers the region, Pape and Tunnell studied more than two hundred sites throughout the Coastal Bend, making meticulous logs, maps, and notes of their discoveries.John W. (Wes) Tunnell Jr. and Jace Tunnell have organized and documented their family collection and present it, along with brief biographies of the two collectors, as a survey of the state of knowledge in the late 1920s and 1930s, as well as a tribute to these two important early researchers and their body of work.

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Book SynopsisThis volume aims at further articulating and developing the cultural psychological interest in community. It focuses on the processes through which individuals constitute communities and the processes that restrain or enable moving forward with others. This interest is necessary especially now that the world is on the move. Economic crises, political crises and ecological crises have led to reinforced migration patterns, a rise in authoritarianism and xenophobia, and have become a threat to the survival of the world as we know it, particularly to minorities and indigenous communities. At the same time, we are witnessing the birth of new networks, dialogues and actions, generated by people within, between and among communities. Therefore, this volume collects interdisciplinary theoretical, empirical and applied contributions enabling engagement with communities in cultural psychology. This involves both reflections on meaning-making processes and projections on how they feed into social transformation, in exchange with community psychology, anthropology and sociology. People vitally depend on community to effectively negotiate or resist in complex intercultural or intergroup settings. In the wake of human rights violations or to prevent further damage to the environment a community is needed to undertake action. From feminist movements and disability activism to the otherwise marginalized: how do people constitute communities? How do they resist as a community? How can cultural psychology contribute not only to understand meaning-making processes, but also connect them to processes of social transformation? Migration, moving through and connecting to different communities can affect meaning making in significant ways. People consider themselves as members of one or another community, but they also increasingly enter into new settings of social practice with new means for action. How might creative meaning-making build bridges between communities? How might new community arise in between or with others? How can cultural psychology deal with intercultural processes without reifying different cultures? These are the central questions that the, mostly emerging, scholars from many corners of the world address in this book. Their research addresses different institutional settings that are resisted and transformed from within, in dialogue with others. From social work, NGOs and municipal activity to university talent mobility and art projects for youth. Other settings are newly inhabited, from the public square and the social media to a foreign city and neighborhood church. Thus, more communities appear on the map of cultural psychology.Table of Contents Series Editors’ Preface—Creating Cultural Psychology of Community: What Is Needed? Acknowledgments. Introduction: The Tensions and Transformations of Moving in Communities SECTION I: RESISTANCE OR TRANSFORMATION WITHIN, TOWARDS AND FROM COMMUNITIES. Constituting Childbirth Activism in Argentina: A Study of Place, Identity, and Emotions The Performative Momentum of the Hashtag: An Examination of the #MeToo Movement Meaning Making Processes in a Professional Community of Social Workers Making Meaningof Disability in Residents’ Meetings for Municipal Welfare Policy Maneuvering Around Conflicts Between International Development NGOs and Local Communities Toward Poverty Alleviation in Ghana Restoration of Purpose: A Goal-Focused Approach to Cultural Transformation and Well-Being Promotion Among Marginalized Communities Commentary—Experiencing Change: Interrelations Between Individual and Social Transformations SECTION II: MEANING MAKING IN BETWEEN DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES. Recognition as a Catalyst for Agency: Experiences From an Intercultural Art Project for Young People The Migration Project: Studying the Narrative Construction of Migrant Mobility in a Nonlinear Way Exploring the Tensions and Possible Transformations in Talent Mobility to Estonian Universities Self-Expansion Through Proculturation: Semiotic Movement Toward Curvilinear Development “Apart From Being Taught, You Teach Yourself”: Appropriation and Religious Trajectories Among Children and Youth in a Toba/Qom Neighborhood of Buenos Aires Commentary— Cultural Psychology, Communities, and the Construction of Excluding Spaces: The Production of Foreigners About the Contributors.

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Book SynopsisThis volume aims at further articulating and developing the cultural psychological interest in community. It focuses on the processes through which individuals constitute communities and the processes that restrain or enable moving forward with others. This interest is necessary especially now that the world is on the move. Economic crises, political crises and ecological crises have led to reinforced migration patterns, a rise in authoritarianism and xenophobia, and have become a threat to the survival of the world as we know it, particularly to minorities and indigenous communities. At the same time, we are witnessing the birth of new networks, dialogues and actions, generated by people within, between and among communities. Therefore, this volume collects interdisciplinary theoretical, empirical and applied contributions enabling engagement with communities in cultural psychology. This involves both reflections on meaning-making processes and projections on how they feed into social transformation, in exchange with community psychology, anthropology and sociology. People vitally depend on community to effectively negotiate or resist in complex intercultural or intergroup settings. In the wake of human rights violations or to prevent further damage to the environment a community is needed to undertake action. From feminist movements and disability activism to the otherwise marginalized: how do people constitute communities? How do they resist as a community? How can cultural psychology contribute not only to understand meaning-making processes, but also connect them to processes of social transformation? Migration, moving through and connecting to different communities can affect meaning making in significant ways. People consider themselves as members of one or another community, but they also increasingly enter into new settings of social practice with new means for action. How might creative meaning-making build bridges between communities? How might new community arise in between or with others? How can cultural psychology deal with intercultural processes without reifying different cultures? These are the central questions that the, mostly emerging, scholars from many corners of the world address in this book. Their research addresses different institutional settings that are resisted and transformed from within, in dialogue with others. From social work, NGOs and municipal activity to university talent mobility and art projects for youth. Other settings are newly inhabited, from the public square and the social media to a foreign city and neighborhood church. Thus, more communities appear on the map of cultural psychology.Table of Contents Series Editors’ Preface—Creating Cultural Psychology of Community: What Is Needed? Acknowledgments. Introduction: The Tensions and Transformations of Moving in Communities SECTION I: RESISTANCE OR TRANSFORMATION WITHIN, TOWARDS AND FROM COMMUNITIES. Constituting Childbirth Activism in Argentina: A Study of Place, Identity, and Emotions The Performative Momentum of the Hashtag: An Examination of the #MeToo Movement Meaning Making Processes in a Professional Community of Social Workers Making Meaningof Disability in Residents’ Meetings for Municipal Welfare Policy Maneuvering Around Conflicts Between International Development NGOs and Local Communities Toward Poverty Alleviation in Ghana Restoration of Purpose: A Goal-Focused Approach to Cultural Transformation and Well-Being Promotion Among Marginalized Communities Commentary—Experiencing Change: Interrelations Between Individual and Social Transformations SECTION II: MEANING MAKING IN BETWEEN DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES. Recognition as a Catalyst for Agency: Experiences From an Intercultural Art Project for Young People The Migration Project: Studying the Narrative Construction of Migrant Mobility in a Nonlinear Way Exploring the Tensions and Possible Transformations in Talent Mobility to Estonian Universities Self-Expansion Through Proculturation: Semiotic Movement Toward Curvilinear Development “Apart From Being Taught, You Teach Yourself”: Appropriation and Religious Trajectories Among Children and Youth in a Toba/Qom Neighborhood of Buenos Aires Commentary— Cultural Psychology, Communities, and the Construction of Excluding Spaces: The Production of Foreigners About the Contributors.

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Book SynopsisPreparing and Sustaining Social Justice Educators spotlights the challenging and necessary work of fostering social justice in schools. Integral to this work are the teachers and school leaders who enact the principles of social justice—racial equity, cultural inclusivity, and identity acceptance—daily in their classrooms. This volume makes the case that high-quality public education relies on the recruitment, professional development, and retention of educators ready to navigate complex systemic and structural inequities to best serve vulnerable student populations. Annamarie Francois and Karen Hunter Quartz, along with contributing scholars and practitioners, present an intersectional approach to educational justice that is grounded in research about deeper learning, community development, and school reform. Throughout the book, the contributors detail professional activities proven to sustain social justice educators. They show how effective teacher coaching, for example, encourages educators to confront their explicit and implicit biases, to engage in critical conversations and self-reflection, and to assess teacher performance through a social justice lens. The book illustrates how professional learning collaborations promote diverse, antiracist, and socially responsible learning communities. Case studies at three university-partnered K–12 schools in Los Angeles, demonstrate the benefits of these professional alliances and practices. Francois and Quartz acknowledge the difficulty of the social justice educator’s task, a challenge heightened by a K–12 teacher shortage, an undersupplied teacher pipeline, and school closures. Yet they keep their sights set on a just and equitable future, and in this work they give educators the tools to build such a future.

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Book SynopsisComparing two consequential movements that shed light on the nature of revolution>Revolutions in Cuba and Venezuela compares the sociopolitical processes behind two major revolutions—Cuba in 1959, when Fidel Castro came to power, and Venezuela in 1999, when Hugo Chávez won the presidential election. With special attention to the Cuba-Venezuela alliance, particularly in regards to foreign policy and the trade of doctors for oil, Silvia Pedraza and Carlos Romero show that the geopolitical theater where these events played out determined the dynamics and reach of the revolutions.Updating and enriching the current understanding of the Cuban and Venezuelan revolutions, this study is unique in its focus on the massive exodus they generated. Pedraza and Romero argue that this factor is crucial for comprehending a revolution’s capacity to succeed or fail. By externalizing dissent, refugees helped to consolidate the revolutions, but as the diasporas became significant political actors and the lifelines of each economy, they eventually served to undermine the social movements.Using comparative historical analysis and data collected through fieldwork in Cuba and Venezuela as well as from immigrant communities in the U.S., Pedraza and Romero discuss issues of politics, economics, migrations, authoritarianism, human rights, and democracy in two nations that hoped to make a better world through their revolutionary journeys.Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Book SynopsisCollective Intelligence and Digital Archives DIGITAL TOOLS AND USES SET Coordinated by Imad Saleh This book presents the most up-to-date research from different areas of digital archives to show how and why collective intelligence is being developed to organize and better communicate new masses of information. Current archive digitization projects produce an enormous amount of digital data (Big Data). Thanks to the proactive approach of large public institutions, this data is increasingly accessible. Despite the recent stabilization of technical and legal frameworks, the use of data has yet to be enriched by processes such as collective intelligence. By exploring the field of digital humanities, audiovisual archives, preservation of cultural heritage, crowdsourcing and the recovery of scientific archives, this book presents and analyzes concrete examples of collective intelligence for use in digital archives.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Ecosystems of Collective Intelligence in the Service of Digital Archives 1 Samuel SZONIECKY 1.1 Digital archives 1 1.2 Collective intelligence 3 1.3 Knowledge ecosystems 5 1.4 Examples of ecosystems of knowledge 7 1.4.1 Modeling digital archive interpretation 7 1.4.2 Editing archives via the semantic web 10 1.4.3 A semantic platform for analyzing audiovisual corpuses 12 1.4.4 Digital libraries and crowdsourcing: a state-of-the-art 14 1.4.5 Conservation and promotion of cultural heritage 16 1.4.6 Modeling knowledge for innovation 18 1.5 Solutions 20 1.6 Bibliography 21 Chapter 2 Tools for Modeling Digital Archive Interpretation 23 Muriel LOU PRE and Samuel SZONIECKY 2.1 What archives are we speaking of? Definition, issues and collective intelligence methods 25 2.1.1 Database archives, evolution of a concept and its functions 25 2.1.2 The exploitation of digital archives in the humanities 27 2.1.3 The specific case of visualization tools 32 2.2 Digital archive visualization tools: lessons from the Biolographes experiment 34 2.2.1 Tools for testing 37 2.2.2 Tools for visualizing networks: DBpedia, Palladio 38 2.2.3 Multi-purpose tools (Keshif, Table) 40 2.3 Prototype for influence network modeling 44 2.3.1 Categorization of relationships 45 2.3.2 Assisted influence network entry 47 2.4 Limits and perspectives 50 2.4.1 Epistemological conflicts 51 2.4.2 The digital “black box”? 55 2.4.3 From individual expertise to group intelligence 56 2.5 Conclusion 57 2.6 Bibliography 58 Chapter 3 From the Digital Archive to the Resource Enriched Via Semantic Web: Process of Editing a Cultural Heritage 61 Lénaïk LEYOUDEC 3.1 Influencing the intelligibility of a heritage document 61 3.2 Mobilizing differential semantics 62 3.3 Applying an interpretive process to the archive 63 3.4 Assessment of the semiotic study 67 3.5 Popularizing the data web in the editorialization approach 70 3.6 Archive editorialization in the Famille™ architext 73 3.7 Assessment of the archive’s recontextualization 79 3.8 Bibliography 81 Chapter 4 Studio Campus AAR: A Semantic Platform for Analyzing and Publishing Audiovisual Corpuses 85 Abdelkrim BELOUED, Peter STOCKINGER and Steffen LALANDE 4.1 Introduction 85 4.2 Context and issues 86 4.2.1 Archiving and appropriation of audiovisual data 89 4.2.2 General presentation of the Campus AAR environment 94 4.3 Editing knowledge graphs – the Studio Campus AAR example 96 4.3.1 Context 97 4.3.2 Representations of OWL2 restrictions 99 4.3.3 Resolution of OWL2 restrictions 101 4.3.4 Relaxing constraints 102 4.3.5 Classification of individuals 104 4.3.6 Opening and interoperability with the web of data 106 4.3.7 Graphical interfaces 107 4.4 Application to media analysis 108 4.4.1 Model of audiovisual description 109 4.4.2 Reference works and description models 110 4.4.3 Description pattern 111 4.4.4 The management of contexts 112 4.4.5 Suggestion of properties 113 4.4.6 Suggestion of property values 114 4.4.7 Opening on the web of data 115 4.5 Application to the management of individuals 116 4.5.1 Multi-ontology description 116 4.5.2 Faceted browsing 117 4.5.3 An individual’s range 117 4.6 Application to information searches 118 4.6.1 Semantic searches 118 4.6.2 Transformation of SPARQL query graphs 120 4.6.3 Transformation of OWL2 axioms into SPARQL 120 4.6.4 Interface 121 4.7 Application to corpus management 122 4.8 Application to author publication 123 4.8.1 Publication ontologies 125 4.8.2 Transformation engine 128 4.8.3 Final product 129 4.8.4 Opening on the web of data 129 4.8.5 Graphical Interface 130 4.9 Conclusion 131 4.10 Bibliography 132 Chapter 5 Digital Libraries and Crowdsourcing: A Review 135 Mathieu ANDRO and Imad SALEH 5.1 The concept of crowdsourcing in libraries 136 5.1.1 Definition of crowdsourcing 136 5.1.2 Historic origins of crowdsourcing 137 5.1.3 Conceptual origins of crowdsourcing 140 5.1.4 Critiques of crowdsourcing. Towards the uberization of libraries? 140 5.2 Taxonomy and panorama of crowdsourcing in libraries 141 5.2.1 Explicit crowdsourcing 143 5.2.2 Gamification and implicit crowdsourcing 145 5.2.3 Crowdfunding 148 5.3 Analyses of crowdsourcing in libraries from an information and communication perspective 150 5.3.1 Why do libraries have recourse to crowdsourcing and what are the necessary conditions? 150 5.3.2 Why do Internet users contribute? Taxonomy of Internet users’ motivations 153 5.3.3 From symbolic recompense to concrete remuneration 154 5.3.4 Communication for recruiting contributors 155 5.3.5 Community management for keeping contributors 155 5.3.6 The quality and reintegration of produced data 156 5.3.7 The evaluation of crowdsourcing projects 157 5.4 Conclusions on collective intelligence and the wisdom of crowds 158 5.5 Bibliography 159 Chapter 6 Conservation and Promotion of Cultural Heritage in the Context of the Semantic Web 163 Ashraf AMAD and Nasreddine BOUHAÏ 6.1 Introduction 163 6.2 The knowledge resources and models relative to cultural heritage 164 6.2.1 Metadata norms 164 6.2.2 Controlled vocabularies 171 6.2.3 Lexical databases 172 6.2.4 Ontologies 172 6.3 Difficulties and possible solutions 174 6.3.1 Data acquisition 175 6.3.2 Information modeling 185 6.3.3 Use 195 6.3.4 Interoperability 197 6.4 Conclusion 201 6.5 Bibliography 202 Chapter 7 On Knowledge Organization and Management for Innovation: Modeling with the Strategic Observation Approach in Material Science 207 Sahbi SIDHOM and Philippe LAMBERT 7.1 General introduction 207 7.2 Research context: KM and innovation process 210 7.2.1 Jean Lamour Institute 210 7.2.2 Technology and Knowledge Transfer Office (or CC-VIT) 211 7.3 Methodological approach 212 7.3.1 Observation and accumulation of knowledge for innovation 212 7.3.2 Strategic observation and extraction of knowledge: towards an ontological approach 215 7.3.3 Creation of a class hierarchy (of knowledge) 224 7.4 Conceptual modeling for innovation: technological transfer 225 7.4.1 Implementations 226 7.4.2 Corpus specificities 227 7.4.3 NLP engineering applied to the corpus 228 7.4.4 “Polyfunctionalities” favoring strategic observation 232 7.5 Conclusion: principal results and recommendations 233 7.6 Bibliography 235 List of Authors 239 Index 241

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Book SynopsisSEO practices for Baidu and other Chinese search engines are little known in the Western world. However, in order for a company to promote itself successfully in the Middle Kingdom, it is absolutely necessary to go online in China. Chinese SEO is not only about working on the on-site and off-site aspects of a site, there are also many administrative tasks to take into account: the creation of a site in China can pose governmental problems (obtaining a Chinese mobile line, applying for an ICP license, proving that the company is well established in China, etc.) In order for readers to understand how SEO and web-marketing works in China, tips, advice and case studies are presented throughout this book.Table of ContentsPreface ix Introduction xiii Chapter 1 Baidu, Its Services and Its Competitors 1 1.1 The history of Baidu 1 1.2 Very “rich” Search Engine Results Page 2 1.3 Baidu versus HaoSou and Sogou 4 1.4 Baidu’s services 6 1.5 Eye tracking on Baidu versus Google 7 1.6 How does “BaiduSpider” work? 8 1.7 Understanding the difference between crawl and indexing on Baidu 11 Chapter 2 Technical Advice and Tips for Baidu SEO 13 2.1 Purchasing a domain name with a “.cn” extension 13 2.2 Choosing a domain name 13 2.3 Hosting a site in Hong Kong and/or in China 14 2.3.1 Recommended hosting companies 16 2.3.2 Case study 17 2.4 Chinese mobile telephone line 18 2.5 Optimizing an HTML code for Baidu 19 2.6 Is HTTPS protocol incompatible with Baidu? 20 2.7. “Baidu MIP”, a new feature for mobile pages in 2016 22 2.8 Encoding a Chinese site 24 2.9 Baidu’s “Webmaster Tools” 25 2.10 Check that the robots.txt complies with the Baidu guidelines 27 2.11 How should a robots.txt with a high number of restrictions be managed? 28 2.12 Tags and attributes that are not compatible with Baidu 30 2.12.1 The rel=“canonical” attribute does not work on Baidu 30 2.12.2 The hreflang attribute does not work on Baidu 31 2.12.3 Micro data tags (Schema.org) do not work in Baidu 32 2.13 Baidu’s V1, V2 and V3 icons 33 2.14 The “official site” icon on Baidu (官 网) 35 2.15 The Pomegranate algorithm (石 榴) 37 2.16 The Money Plant algorithm against external spam links 37 2.17 Sitemap for Baidu 39 2.18 Submitting URLs to Baidu automatically 39 2.19 Adapt your mobile site to Baidu 42 2.20 Declaring a mobile site in Webmaster Tools 43 2.21 Baidu’s official good practices for optimizing a mobile site 44 2.22 Why should you have a Responsive Design site? 45 2.23 Managing the redesign of a site for Baidu 47 2.24 Simple and ordinary URLs for Baidu 49 2.25 URL formats for press sites for Baidu news 50 2.26 The negative impact of empty internal results pages 50 2.27 Problems with link analysis and Rapid Positioning 51 Chapter 3 Semantic and Editorial Advice and Tips for Baidu SEO 53 3.1 Baidu Index: a useful platform for studying search trends 53 3.2 Baidu’s keyword generation tool 54 3.3 Keywords and ranking: Term Frequency–Inverse Document Frequency statistics 55 3.4 The length of the title and meta description meta-tags 56 3.5 The influence of keywords on Baidu SEO 58 3.6 The importance of keyword density 59 3.7 Strategy for keywords and SERP analysis 61 Chapter 4 Subjects Related to Baidu SEO 65 4.1 Baidu Certified Marketing Specialist certifications 65 4.2 Baidu’s browser 66 4.3 Connecting to a social network directly from the SERPs 68 4.4 Chinese e-commerce and Baidu SEO: current trends 69 4.5 AutoNavi is outperforming Baidu Maps 71 4.6 Social networks and Baidu 71 Chapter 5 Methodology of a Baidu SEO Campaign 75 5.1 First step: kick-off meeting 75 5.2 The SEO project reverse schedule 76 5.2.1 How is a Gantt chart created? 77 5.3 The technical audit for Chinese SEO on Baidu 80 5.4 The semantic audit for Chinese SEO on Baidu 81 5.5 Keyword analysis 82 5.6 Optimizing Chinese meta-tags 83 5.7 Optimizing headings tags 85 5.8 Optimizing textual content 86 5.9 Optimizing Chinese URLs 88 5.10 Optimizing text anchors 89 5.11 Optimizing images 91 5.12 Optimizing breadcrumbs 92 5.13 Dragon Metrics: a special position monitoring tool for China 92 5.14 Netlinking: searching for external links 94 Chapter 6 Beyond Baidu SEO 97 6.1 Advice on SMO optimization for WeChat 98 6.2 Advice for social marketing on Weibo 100 6.3 Mei Nu in China: a marketing method 104 6.4 Wang Hong (网 红): the new online promotion model 106 Conclusion 111 Glossary 113 Bibliography 121 Index 123

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Book Synopsis"Creative competitive intelligence" is an information-seeking and monitoring activity of an information environment for the purpose of creativity and innovation. It involves the process leading up to the development of an informational supply adapted to the inspiration of creative or innovative personnel. This dynamic aims for the recognition of novelties (ideas, products, technologies, etc.), the identification of new players in the world of creation and innovation, and the identification of forgotten or neglected developmental paths. This book is aimed at readers who already have some experience of innovation and who are now looking for new ways to discover new products under development, anticipate the design of future products, identify unexplored tracks of inventions, develop and analyze innovation strategies, or recognize the emergence of budding artists.Table of ContentsIntroduction ix Chapter 1 Intelligence and Creative Competitive Intelligence 1 1.1 Supplying intelligence 1 1.2 Informational supply and creative competitive intelligence 10 1.3 Creative class and creative competitive intelligence 12 1.4 Creative competitive intelligence, objectives and means 15 Chapter 2 Researching and Identifying Trends 17 2.1 Weak and strong signals and routine signals 17 2.1.1 The puzzle method 19 2.1.2 The 3S hypotheses method 19 2.1.3 Researching routine signals 20 2.2 Trends interpreted using graphs 21 2.3 Sources of information on trends 27 2.4 Algorithm of trend research 32 Chapter 3 Formatting, Analysis and Inspiration Using Trends 37 3.1 Word clouds 37 3.2 Boards, cartograms and trend books 40 3.3 Note about researching images that relate to a trend 44 3.4 Trend funnel and cartogram of opportunities 48 3.5 Routine boards 51 Chapter 4 Presenting and Analyzing Networks 53 4.1 Overview 53 4.2 Illustrating indirect links 54 4.3 Illustrating links between individuals 56 4.4 Demonstrating networks with multivariate entities 60 4.4.1 Using star glyphs 60 4.4.2 Using Chernoff faces 61 4.5 Invisible chessboards 64 4.6 Comparative analysis of networks using graphs 66 Chapter 5 Visual Tools for Problem Solving 67 5.1 The great issues of problem solving 67 5.2 Maps to express questions and ideas 68 5.2.1 Mind maps 68 5.2.2 Concept maps 69 5.2.3 Lotus flower maps 72 5.2.4 Ishikawa diagrams 74 5.2.5 The tree to break down objectives 76 5.3 Window tools to change perspective 77 5.3.1 Crossing multiscreens 77 5.3.2 Hyperspective multi-windows 79 5.3.3 The customer experience corridor 80 5.4 Business use cases and user stories 82 5.4.1 Business use case diagrams 82 5.4.2 User stories 84 5.5 User experience maps 84 Chapter 6 Investigating the Past and Present 87 6.1 Existing solutions 87 6.1.1 Go and see what is done in other regions 88 6.1.2 Go to see what is done in other sectors 89 6.1.3 Go and see what exists in nature 91 6.2 Lateral thinking of obsolete technologies 94 6.3 The C-K theory for design 96 6.4 Investigating blue oceans 99 6.4.1 Strategic canvas 100 6.4.2 Forgotten customers 101 6.5 Crossing of current trends 103 Chapter 7 Inspiration Using TRIZ 107 7.1 A few general points about TRIZ 107 7.2 The innovation principles 108 7.3 Matrix of (technical) contradictions 109 7.4 Separation principles 112 7.5 Eras and laws of technical system evolution 113 7.6 Analyzing the technical system 117 7.7 The ideal final result (IFR) 119 Chapter 8 Reasoning with the Aid of Operators 121 8.1 Search operators of expressions of avenues for innovation 121 8.2 The easy choice operators and their negation 124 8.3 Verbal operators 127 8.3.1 Scamper 127 8.3.2 Mathematical operators (the most basic ones) 128 8.3.3 DTC operators 128 8.3.4 FRED ASTAIRE operators 129 8.4 Operators using the imaginary 130 8.4.1 The operator using super powerful characters (SPC) 130 8.4.2 The operator inspired from science fiction (ISF) 131 8.5 Combined techniques 135 8.5.1 The use of the Sequencer 135 8.5.2 Crossing of windows and operators 136 8.6 The analogical operators 138 8.6.1 Simple usage of an analogy matrix 139 8.6.2 Using Synectics 141 Chapter 9 Use of Games for Serious Purposes 143 9.1 Some forms of games 143 9.1.1 A game as an attitude or support 144 9.1.2 The game as a design goal 145 9.2 The game for serious purposes 148 9.3 Information bingo to monitor speeches 150 9.4 The semantic brainball to find ideas 153 9.5 Keyword battleships 155 Chapter 10 Diversion of Role-playing Games 159 10.1 Role-playing games 159 10.2 Knowledge acquisition through role-playing 160 10.3 The personas 160 10.4 The court of ideas 164 10.5 The seven creative families 168 10.6 Investigation trees 169 10.7 Complex route mapping 171 10.8 The investigation of possible futures 172 Chapter 11 Tactical or Strategic Reflection and Wargames 175 11.1 Reasoning by military analogies 175 11.2 Free business wargames 179 11.3 Product clash maps 182 11.3.1 Choice and preliminary data collection, development of questionnaires 182 11.3.2 Drawing the bottom of the map/terrain 185 11.3.3 Placing pawns and estimating movements: the simplified version 186 11.3.4 Placing pawns and estimating movements: the detailed version 187 11.3.5 Reasoning using product clash maps 189 11.4 The strategic goban 189 Chapter 12 Use of Objective-based Games 195 12.1 A small point about games with a purpose 195 12.2 The strategic and creative shoot (SCS) 196 12.2.1 SCS, strategic round 197 12.2.2 SCS, creative round 199 12.2.3 SCS, counter-attack or second level 201 12.3 The Rummy of attributes 203 12.4 The Small Horse Challenge 205 12.5 The informational and creative centipede 209 Chapter 13 Creative Competitive Intelligence and Territorial Intelligence 215 13.1 Territory in question 215 13.2 Problems with creative competitive intelligence and territorial intelligence 217 13.3 Geo-strategic approach 220 13.4 Risk approach with Clue Storming 223 Conclusion 229 Bibliography 233 Index 241

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Book SynopsisA polymorphous concept, power has imposed itself since ancient times. Whether it characterizes the phenomena of domination, exclusion or voluntary submission, it illuminates social relations and, since the 20th Century, interpersonal relations. This book offers, first of all, a daring panorama through its intertwining of different theoretical propositions relating to power, across time and across disciplines. It then presents the work of researchers in information and communication sciences who draw from these proposals the materials allowing them to develop their own analyses. These analyses revisit discursive power with respect to contemporary formations of communication and information. They investigate digital technologies by problematizing the phenomena of influence, control and access to knowledge. Finally, they reflect on the media in the light of inherent powers of social mediation, advertising and journalism.Table of ContentsPart 1. Epistemological Foundations 1. Political Power, Institutions and Socio-economic Organizations. 2. Subjective and Intersubjective Power. 3. Discursive Power: Words, Languages, Controls and Arguments. Part 2. Mobilizing the Concept of Power in ICS 4. Linguistic Power in ICS. 5. Power, Society, and Developments in ICT. 6. Media Power.

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Book SynopsisOur world overwhelms us with more and more data everyday. Yet we need to face many challenges in order to deal with its complexity – notably to discern the essential from the accessory, to exploit quality and not quantity, to explore the depth of our knowledge and to produce from it, in a reasoned way, effective ideas to be put into action. A synthesis of a triple experience in industry, pedagogy and academia, Knowledge and Ideation presents numerous concepts, such as the dematerialized knowledge object, inventive intellectual heritage, inventive potential, and knowledge-based ideation. This book develops and describes applications in the form of case studies while proposing prospects.Table of ContentsForeword xiii Preface xvii Part 1 Inventive Knowledge and Inventive Intellectual Corpus 1 Chapter 1 Nature of Inventive Knowledge 3 1.1 Knowledge levels 3 1.1.1 Knowledge in everyday life 4 1.1.2 Scientific knowledge 4 1.1.3 Knowledge in the Japanese intellectual tradition 4 1.1.4 Knowledge according to cognitive science 5 1.2 The limits of knowledge 6 1.3 Value chain and knowledge evolution chain 7 1.3.1 The knowledge value chain inspired by Porter 7 1.3.2 The DIKW knowledge evolution chain 16 1.4 Inventive knowledge concepts 21 1.4.1 Current and fruitful ideas 21 1.4.2 Depth of inventive knowledge 22 1.5 Cognitive and social dimensions of the knowledge actor 22 1.5.1 From erudite (scholar) to expert 23 1.5.2 From expert to inventor 23 1.6 Conclusion 24 Chapter 2 Representation and Analysis of Inventive Knowledge 25 2.1 The concept of dematerialized knowledge object 25 2.1.1 Founding principle 25 2.1.2 Illustration by electromagnetic wave detection object 26 2.1.3 Application to the description included in patents 27 2.2 Cartography or mapping 28 2.2.1 Introduction 28 2.2.2 Information mapping 28 2.2.3 Knowledge mapping 29 2.3 The map 30 2.3.1 Introduction to the map 30 2.3.2 Types of maps 31 2.4 Cognitive mapping 32 2.5 The cognitive map 32 2.6 A reasoned procedure for analyzing inventive knowledge 35 2.6.1 Introduction 35 2.6.2 Work on a knowledge structure 36 2.6.3 Example of an invention file 37 2.7 Conclusion 40 Chapter 3 Knowledge: Bridge between Innovation, Invention and Intellectual Property 41 3.1 Innovation 41 3.1.1 Multidimensional aspect of innovation 41 3.1.2 Innovation procedures and processes 42 3.2 Invention and the ability to invent 44 3.2.1 Concept of inventiveness 44 3.2.2 Concept of creativity 44 3.2.3 Combining creativity and inventiveness 46 3.3 Intellectual property rights 46 3.3.1 General information on intellectual property rights and copyright 46 3.3.2 The patent 47 3.3.3 Summary 48 3.4 Analysis of the links between invention, innovation and inventive intellectual corpus 48 3.4.1 Links between industrial property rights and innovation 48 3.4.2 Links between industrial property rights and invention 49 3.4.3 Links between invention and intellectual property rights 51 3.4.4 Links between innovation and intellectual property rights 51 3.4.5 Links between invention and innovation 51 3.4.6 Links between innovation and invention 51 3.4.7 Reciprocal links of the inventive activity and the inventive intellectual corpus 51 3.5 The nature of the bridges between knowledge domains 53 3.5.1 The perspective of economists 54 3.5.2 The knowledge management perspective on innovation 54 3.5.3 The perspective of KBI (Knowledge-Based Innovation) 55 3.6 Conclusion 55 Chapter 4 Knowledge Capital and Inventive Intellectual Corpus 57 4.1 Knowledge capital and intellectual corpus 57 4.1.1 Knowledge capital 57 4.1.2 Intellectual corpus 57 4.2 Inventive intellectual corpus 64 4.2.1 Dematerialized nature of the inventive intellectual corpus 64 4.2.2 Epistemic diagram of the inventive intellectual corpus 64 4.2.3 Inventive intellectual corpus versus intangible capital 65 4.2.4 Inventive intellectual corpus and creation of inventive knowledge 65 4.2.5 Traces in the inventive intellectual corpus 68 4.3 Projection of the inventive intellectual corpus on the inventive knowledge map ® 69 4.4 Conclusion 71 Part 2 Knowledge-Based Innovation 75 Chapter 5 Innovation Dynamics and Innovation as a Mode of Innovative Problem Solving 77 5.1 Innovation dynamics 77 5.2 Using knowledge to find innovative solutions 79 5.2.1 Relationship between knowledge management and innovation within the general framework 79 5.2.2 Relationship between knowledge management and innovation within the context of research and development activities 83 5.2.3 Known knowledge management methods instrumenting innovation 83 5.3 Overview of some common methods and techniques 84 5.4 Innovation and knowledge evolution by the principle of divergence-convergence 85 5.5 Innovation and knowledge evolution by the principle of analogy 86 5.6 Innovation and knowledge evolution by the principle of expansion 87 5.7 Generalization: global problem-solving process 88 5.8 Conclusion 89 Chapter 6 Innovation in Ideation Mode 91 6.1 The concept of ideation 91 6.2 Knowledge-based innovation (KBI) field 91 6.2.1 Relationship between knowledge management and innovation 92 6.2.2 Management by the strategic capabilities portfolio 92 6.2.3 Knowledge-based innovation as a process 92 6.2.4 Two key hypotheses 93 6.2.5 Systemic evolution 94 6.2.6 Path dependency 96 6.3 Principle of emergence 97 6.3.1 Need for a new principle for creativity 97 6.3.2 Principle of emergence 98 6.4 Theoretical model of knowledge evolution (the “chaotically” inspired model of knowledge evolution by emergence) 100 6.4.1 Step 1: knowledge, a complex system 100 6.4.2 Step 2: knowledge creation, an evolution of the knowledge system 101 6.4.3 Step 3: description of knowledge evolution by another complex system 102 6.4.4 Step 4: generalization of the evolution process to any complex system evolving over time 102 6.5 Theoretical model of inventive knowledge creation (step 5) 105 6.6 Instantiation of the “chaotically” inspired model of knowledge evolution by the ICAROS ® method (step 6) 107 6.7 The purpose of ideation for innovation 110 6.8 Conclusion 110 Chapter 7 Implementation of the ICAROS ® Method: Case Study 113 7.1 Introduction to the case study 113 7.2 Funnel model 113 7.3 Presentation of the experiment context 114 7.3.1 Concept of Knowledge and Technology Areas Portfolio 115 7.3.2 Adaptation of the Knowledge and Technology Areas Portfolio concept to the company under observation: the Knowledge and Technology Areas Portfolio 117 7.4 Preliminary step: constitution of cognitive stimulus 118 7.4.1 Structuring of the intellectual corpus by knowledge domain 118 7.4.2 Development of cognitive stimulus 124 7.5 Course 130 7.5.1 Individual stimulation session 131 7.5.2 Seminar 137 7.5.3 Dissemination 147 7.6 Conclusion in the form of lessons learned 147 Part 3 Inventive Activity and Visibility of Inventive Potential 151 Chapter 8 The Inventive Potential of a Company 153 8.1 Reminder on inventive activity 153 8.2 Notion of inventive potential 154 8.3 Annual innovation and invention activity file 154 8.4 Concept of making the inventive potential visible 156 8.5 Inventive data knowledge base 158 8.6 Introduction to the activation of inventive knowledge extracted from inventive intellectual corpus 158 8.7 Conclusion 160 Chapter 9 Managerial Applications 161 9.1 Reasoned contribution to technical strategic decision-making support 161 9.2 Strategic surveillance 162 9.2.1 Introduction 162 9.2.2 The place of strategic surveillance in overall performance steering 162 9.2.3 Knowledge management and environment surveillance 165 9.2.4 Interaction between knowledge capital and its environment 166 9.2.5 Knowledge-based strategic surveillance 168 9.3 Information system on patent portfolio management 172 9.3.1 Introduction 173 9.3.2 The patent file considered as a knowledge object 173 9.3.3 Description of the patent information system 174 9.3.4 Descriptive sheet of a patent file 177 9.3.5 Presentation support for the inventor’s working file 178 9.3.6 Applications 178 9.4 Valorization of inventive activity associated with intangible assets 183 9.4.1 Limits of automated analysis of technical information contained in a patent portfolio 184 9.4.2 Limits to the quality of the drafting of patent files 186 9.4.3 Identification of the knowledge generated by the inventive activity involved in the patent 187 9.5 Publication policy 187 9.6 Determination of the inventive activity for the research tax credit 188 9.6.1 Industrial research and development 188 9.6.2 Characteristics of the research tax credit in France 189 9.6.3 Application of inventive knowledge engineering methods 191 9.7 Reasoned contribution to innovation management 195 9.8 The knowledge worker 196 9.8.1 Knowledge worker definitions 196 9.8.2 Characteristics of the knowledge worker 196 9.8.3 The knowledge worker in their relationship with the law 197 9.8.4 Knowledge Manager 199 9.9 A new profession: the inventive activity expert 202 9.10 The cognitive scientist and inventive activity expert pair 203 9.11 Need for a change in culture 203 9.11.1 Compatibility of conventional companies with the development of creativity 203 9.11.2 New knowledge-based organization 204 9.12 Conclusion 204 Part 4 Perspectives 207 Chapter 10 Knowledge Assessment Based on Knowledge 209 10.1 Introduction 209 10.2 Fundamental principles of knowledge management 212 10.2.1 The virtuous circle of knowledge management 212 10.2.2 Notion of critical knowledge 213 10.2.3 Reminder: ascent along the knowledge evolution chain 214 10.3 Reminder on the social mechanism for stimulating creativity and reflexivity 215 10.3.1 Reminder on the model of “chaotic” evolution 215 10.3.2 Instantiation of the creativity process: the ICAROS ® method 215 10.4 Transposition to the knowledge assessment field 216 10.4.1 Application of the fundamental principles of knowledge management 216 10.4.2 Application of the social mechanism of stimulation 217 10.5 Case study (2019–2020 academic year) 218 10.5.1 Context 218 10.5.2 Objectives of the action research 219 10.5.3 Preparation of the framework 219 10.5.4 Precautions taken with regard to students 221 10.5.5 Example of exercise subject terms 221 10.5.6 Analysis of the score database 224 10.5.7 Benefits of the analysis in the institution 231 10.5.8 Lessons learned and perspectives 231 10.6 Conclusion 232 Chapter 11 Towards an IKM ® : Inventive Knowledge Management 235 11.1 Introduction to the second level of the ICAROS ® method 235 11.1.1 Reminder on the first level of the ICAROS ® method 235 11.1.2 The second level of the ICAROS ® method 236 11.1.3 Notions of creativity 238 11.1.4 Contribution of creativity and inventiveness to ideation 246 11.2 Knowledge-based ideation 248 11.2.1 Introduction to the Idea according to Plato 248 11.2.2 Knowledge-based ideation and supervenience 249 11.2.3 Gestalt theory 252 11.2.4 Synthesis of knowledge-based ideation 258 11.3 Inventive profile engineering 259 11.4 Perspectives from the academic point of view 261 11.4.1 Inventive knowledge creation process as a study object in itself 261 11.4.2 Theoretical approach to knowledge by the physical sciences 261 11.4.3 Extension of the exploration to non-creativity 262 11.4.4 Reminder on the path hypothesis 262 11.5 Conclusion 263 Glossary 265 References 281 Index 295

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Book SynopsisLiving eXperience Design – the design of life experiences – is an extension of user experience design (UXD). The context comprises usage and practice in real contexts in which spatial, urban, social, temporal, historical and legal dimensions are considered. Reflecting upon LivXD is to examine the whole experience of a target audience in a variety of situations – and not only in those involving digital technology. This book begins with the definition of LivXD and its associated epistemology, and proceeds to detail field experiments in certain privileged areas: the relation to creation and works, mediation and adult education. Table of ContentsIntroduction xi Sylvie LELEU-MERVIEL, Daniel SCHMITT and Philippe USEILLE Part 1. Epistemology and Concepts 1 Chapter 1. From UXD (User eXperience Design) to LivXD (Living eXperience Design): Towards the Concept of Experiences of Life and their Design 3 Patrizia LAUDATI and Sylvie LELEU-MERVIEL 1.1. Introduction 3 1.2. The source of UXD 4 1.2.1. From design to user-centered design (UCD) 4 1.2.2. What is UXD? 5 1.2.3. The UXD approach in practice 7 1.2.4. Assessment 9 1.3. Beyond digital devices: from experience design to life experience design 10 1.3.1. The framework of the experience: spaces and living spaces 10 1.3.2. The practices of the places: living experience and visit experience 11 1.4. Views on experience 12 1.4.1. Experience according to Dewey 13 1.4.2. The conditions of experience according to Dewey 14 1.4.3. The meaning of experience according to Dewey 16 1.4.4. When Dewey anticipates Varéla 17 1.4.5. Theureau’s course of experience applied to the case of the visit experience 18 1.4.6. Françoise Héritier’s identity perspective 19 1.5. How can we design experience? 20 1.5.1. Is it possible to design experience? 20 1.5.2. How can we design the spatial framework of experience? 21 1.5.3. Criteria for the spatial preconfiguration of life experience: LivXD 21 1.6. Conclusion and perspectives 23 1.7. References 24 1.8. Webography 26 Chapter 2. Thinking and Living “Experience”: Pragmatist Contributions from John Dewey 27 Françoise BERNARD 2.1. Introduction 27 2.2. Reading experiences: paths to experience in John Dewey’s work 28 2.3. John Dewey: a broad, constructed and argued pragmatism 31 2.4. A social philosophy open to multiple themes and practices 33 2.5. Conclusion 36 2.6. References 37 2.7 Webography 40 Chapter 3. Paths Created by an Enactive-relativized Approach to Experience: the Case of Viewing Experience 41 Charles-Alexandre DELESTAGE 3.1. Introduction 41 3.2. Method of relativized conceptualization and enaction 42 3.2.1. On the subject of embodied cognition 42 3.2.2. Method of relativized conceptualization 45 3.2.3. Enaction 51 3.2.4. First theoretical contributions 53 3.3. From percept to concept 55 3.3.1. The body, a unit of consciousness 56 3.3.2. Communication perspective 63 3.3.3. Communicability of the lived experience 70 3.4. The horizon of relevance 72 3.4.1. Specific individual expectations and relevance: the case of viewing experience 73 3.4.2. Towards a horizon of relevance 77 3.5. Conclusion 81 3.6. Appendix: MRC summary 82 3.7. References 91 Chapter 4. The Lived Experience as an Alternative to Digital Uses 93 Philippe BONFILS, Laurent COLLET and Michel DURAMPART 4.1. Introduction 93 4.2. A partial review of a scientific production linked to the questions of experience 94 4.2.1. Two references: enactivism and narrative semiotics 94 4.2.2. The prism of the relationship with the device 95 4.2.3. Shifting gaze, from interaction to the subject’s transformations 96 4.2.4. The literacy current 96 4.3. The lived experience in i3M Toulon research programs (IMSIC) questioning digital technology at school 97 4.3.1. Prerequisites: a context of paradoxical injunctions 98 4.3.2. An example of “diligence” 98 4.3.3. The bottom line: rigidities, immobilization and fears 101 4.4. The lived experience in i3M Toulon research programs (IMSIC) questioning immersive environments and industry training 102 4.4.1. The observation of a shift from uses to experiences to be lived 102 4.4.2. From experience stories to testing 104 4.5. Assessment: the lived experience and its methodological consequences in research 106 4.6. Conclusion 107 4.7. References 108 Part 2. Experiences of Creation and/or Work 111 Chapter 5. Sources of Video Mapping: a “Proto-narrativity” of a Musical Nature? 113 Pascal BOUCHEZ and Philippe USEILLE 5.1 Introduction 113 5.2. Video mapping and narrativity: a musical chord? 114 5.3 Parent-child interactions and proto-narrativity 118 5.4. Proto-narrativity and configuration of the temporal experience 120 5.5. Conclusion 123 5.6. References 125 Chapter 6. In the Minds of Artists? Study of the Situated Artistic Creation Experience 127 Marine THÉBAULT and Daniel SCHMITT 6.1. Creation: between myth and mystery 127 6.2. Video mapping: a form of support for the study of creative experiences 128 6.3. REMIND: a method for analyzing the artistic creation experience 129 6.3.1. Summary of artists’ different courses of experience 132 6.3.2. Discussion 138 6.4. Conclusion 139 6.5. Acknowledgments 139 6.6. References 139 Chapter 7. Participants’ Experience in an Optical Illusion Installation 143 Khaldoun ZREIK and Ahmad ALI 7.1. Preamble 143 7.2. Visual perception and the art of optical illusion 144 7.2.1. Visual perception in an optical illusion 144 7.2.2. Geometrical-optical illusion 146 7.3. Receiving visual data 152 7.3.1. The spectator’s culture 153 7.3.2. The spectator’s age 154 7.3.3. The spectator’s gender 154 7.4. Mediation in the search for perspective 155 7.4.1. Anamorphosis 155 7.4.2. Digital anamorphosis 158 7.4.3. Lenticular printing 159 7.5. The art of optical illusion 161 7.5.1. Op Art: main features 163 7.5.2. The art of optical illusion from a unique viewpoint 165 7.5.3. The interactive optical illusion 171 7.6. Design examples 175 7.6.1. Unique perspective in the media 176 7.6.2. Experiment at Le Chêne 177 7.6.3. Spectator reactions to the installation 179 7.6.4. Experiment in an open public space: description 181 7.6.5. Spectator reactions 183 7.7. Conclusion 184 7.8. References 186 Part 3. Experiences in Mediation and Training 187 Chapter 8. The Concept of Experience in John Dewey’s Aesthetic Pragmatism: What are the Consequences for Cultural Mediation in the Museum? 189 Jérôme HENNEBERT 8.1. Introduction 189 8.2. Aesthetic theory before John Dewey 191 8.3. John Dewey’s aesthetic pragmatism: the continuity of art and existence 195 8.4. Towards a descriptive redefinition of cultural mediation in museums 198 8.5. Conclusion 203 8.6. References 203 Chapter 9. A Step Towards Experience Design in Museums 205 Daniel SCHMITT and Virginie BLONDEAU 9.1. Visitor experience and experience design 205 9.2. Reducing the concept of experience 206 9.3. REMIND, a method of accessing experience 207 9.4. Objectifying visitor experience: the Iguane marin 209 9.4.1. Analysis of the installation 211 9.5. Objectifying your own experience: the Louise de Bettignies project 212 9.6. A step closer to experience design? 214 9.7. References 215 Chapter 10. Towards Teaching Focused on the “Bridging Experience”: the Case of Urban Learning through Site Visits 217 Smaïl KHAINNAR 10.1. Introduction 217 10.2. Theoretical part: experience, and bridging experience in pedagogy 219 10.2.1. Experience: some conceptual milestones 219 10.2.2. What place is there for the bridging experience in pedagogy? 220 10.3. Application part: two site visits as experiential situations 222 10.3.1. Research methodology and experimental protocol 222 10.3.2. Results and discussion 224 10.4. Conclusion and possibilities 226 10.5. References 227 Chapter 11. Design Games and Game Design: Relations Between Design, Codesign and Serious Games in Adult Education 229 Julian ALVAREZ, Olivier IRRMANN, Damien DJAOUTI, Antoine TALY, Olivier RAMPNOUX and Louise SAUVÉ 11.1. Introduction 229 11.2. Definitions 230 11.2.1. Design and codesign 230 11.2.2. Design games 231 11.2.3. Games 232 11.2.4. Serious games 232 11.2.5. Game design 233 11.2.6. Gamification 234 11.3. Exploring the links between design and serious games 235 11.3.1. Design games and serious games 235 11.3.2. Design games and game design 235 11.4. The main approaches to designing a serious game 239 11.4.1. Identification of different approaches 239 11.4.2. Serious game design 241 11.4.3. Gamification 242 11.4.4. Degamification 243 11.4.5. Serious gaming 245 11.4.6. Review and discussion 249 11.5. Conclusion 250 11.6. References 251 List of Authors 255 Index 257

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Book SynopsisComputer software (operating systems, web browsers, word processors, etc.) structure our daily lives. Comprising both a user interface and the electronic circuits of the machine it is printed to, software represents a hybrid object at the crossroads of materiality and immateriality. But is it, strictly speaking, a �technical object�? By examining the status of software against the criteria of philosophy of classic techniques, in particular that of Gilbert Simondon, this book lays the groundwork of a philosophical reflection on this subject. Further, in order to help introduce readers to problematics, lines of code and explanatory schemas have been provided.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction ix Chapter 1. Simondon’s Philosophy of Technics: A Work Program 1 1.1. A philosophy of technicity 1 1.1.1. Simondonian functionalism 4 1.1.2. The question of the localization of technicity 12 1.1.3. The question of the representatives of technicity 17 1.2. The Simondonian method: approaching the technical object as closely as possible 21 1.2.1. The epistemological stakes: an inductive method 22 1.2.2. Case study of a technological example 24 1.2.3. Reproducing the Simondonian gesture 28 1.3. Confronting Simondon’s thoughts with computers 29 1.3.1. Existing work on Simondon and computers 29 1.3.2. The positioning of our study 35 Chapter 2. Genetic Study of Technology: the Software Program, A Technical Object? 37 2.1. Definition and problem statement of the digital object 37 2.1.1. Technical objects according to Simondon 38 2.1.2. The browser, a digital object that represents software 40 2.2. Constructing the software program from the margin of indeterminacy 51 2.2.1. The computer-machine and the margin of indeterminacy 52 2.2.2. The complexification of computer code 59 2.2.3. Three hypotheses on the status of the software program 64 2.3. The levels of technicity of software 65 2.3.1. The genesis of the browser 66 2.3.2. The element, the associated milieu 70 Chapter 3. Psychosocial Study of Free Software 77 3.1. The problem of the industrial technical object 79 3.1.1. The question of the commensurability of technics 80 3.1.2. The dual alienation of industrial technical objects 81 3.1.3. Saving the technical object by dethroning it 87 3.2. The promise of openness of software as a postindustrial technical object 89 3.2.1. A complex system 90 3.2.2. A postindustrial configuration 91 3.2.3. The free software program, guarantor of software technicity 94 3.3. Bricolage with the digital technical object 98 3.3.1. Aspects and extension of the concept of bricolage 99 3.3.2. Computer bricolage 106 Conclusion 117 Glossary 125 References 131 Index 141

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