Ideas of Difference: Social Spaces and the Labor of Division: Social Spaces and the Labour of Division - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0631207686 ISBN 13: 9780631207689

Casa editrice: Blackwell Pub, 1998

Riassunto

This book introduces contemporary writing about difference through the idea of the labour of division. The contributors see divisions as artefacts that are not only produced in representations of the social but are performed as a continuous labour. Ideas of Difference will appeal to anyone working on identity, organizing, materiality, ethics or spatiality. In reversing the traditional 'division of labour'. the book puts the issue of difference in question. The issue is not so much that differences are reproduced through social constructions, but of identifying the work that social construction allows in creating, consuming and switching 'divisions'. Divisions are no longer seen as fixed, or natural, but are implicated in performing difference.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Kevin Hetherington is a Lecturer in Sociology at Brunel University.

Rolland Munro is Reader in Accountability at the Centre for Social Theory and Technology, Keele University.

Dalla quarta di copertina

This book introduces contemporary writing about difference through the idea of the labor of division. The contributors see divisions as artefacts that are not only produced in representations of the social but are performed as a continuous labor. Ideas of Difference will appeal to anyone working on identity, organizing, materiality, ethics or spatiality. In reversing the traditional 'division of labor' the book puts the issue of difference in question. The issue is not so much that differences are reproduced through social constructions, as that of identifying the work that social construction allows in creating, consuming and switching "divisions". Divisions are no longer seen as fixed, or natural, but are implicated in performing difference.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Blackwell Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0631207686
• ISBN 13: 9780631207689
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 312
• Redattore: Hetherington Kevin, Munro Rolland
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile