Distortion: Social Processes Beyond the Structured and Systemic

ISBN-13: 9780367594763 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 176 str.

Nigel Rapport

Opis

Distortion occurs between the intentions of actions and their outcomes. Escaping the bounds of relationality, of structuration and of systemics, distortion is a form of complex connectedness that has seldom been addressed in the social sciences as a phenomenon in its own right. This book argues that instances of distortion are an important and,

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Conceptualizing the 'distortion of human social life'  2. Contorted environments and distorted being  3. A blind man's problem: Distortion and non-responsiveness; or, the construction of non-futures in Danish bureaucracy  4. Distortion and Stanley Spencer's life in art 5. The politics of paradox: Kierkegaardian theology and national conservatism in Denmark 6. 'Into the crack': Scottish agricultural revolutions and the art of moaning 7. Chains of distortion: Awkward relations and productive resistance in a Danish consulting company 8. 'Hello, can you hear me better now?' Mediatized acoustemologies and distortion on the radio 9. Epi-pro-logue: An anthropological theory of distortion

O autorze

Nigel Rapport is Professor of Anthropological and Philosophical Studies in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews, UK.