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- Inventing the Social
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- 2018
- Published by: Mattering Press
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Inventing the Social showcases recent efforts to develop new ways of knowing society that combine social research with creative practice. With contributions from leading figures in sociology, architecture, geography, design, anthropology, and digital media, the book provides practical and conceptual pointers on how to move beyond the customary distinctions between knowledge and art, and on how to connect the doing, researching and making of social life in potentially new ways. Presenting concrete projects with a creative approach to researching social life as well as reflections on the wider contexts from which these projects emerge, this collection shows how collaboration across social science, digital media and the arts opens up timely alternatives to narrow, instrumentalist proposals that seek to engineer behaviour and to design community from scratch. To invent the social is to recognise that social life is always already creative in itself and to take this as a starting point for developing different ways of combining representation and intervention in social life.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. 1-4
- List of Figures
- pp. 7-10
- Contributors
- pp. 11-14
- Acknowledgements
- pp. 15-16
- Section One: Projects
- Section Two: Essays
- 10. The Sociality of Infectious Diseases
- pp. 234-252
- 11. Social Media as Experiments in Sociality
- pp. 253-284
- Commentaries
- 12. Hacking the Social?
- pp. 285-297
- Appendix
- 14. Inventive Tensions: A Conversation
- pp. 315-334
- Mattering Press Titles
- pp. 335-336
Additional Information
ISBN
9780995527768
Related ISBN(s)
9780995527751
MARC Record
OCLC
1238028134
Pages
338
Launched on MUSE
2021-03-06
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-SA