Thinking in Common: Community in the Global Era

ISBN-13: 9782807614123 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 138 str.

Pascale Cohen-Avenel; Lucia Quaquarelli

Opis

This interdisciplinary collection of essays examines the cultural, symbolic and political ways in which the "common" is defined in the era of globalisation. The overall aim is to understand the emergence of communities which resist pressure to conform to an externally imposed norm.

Spis treści

Pascale Cohen- Avenel, Lucia Quaquarelli: Producing "the common" - Stéphane Dufoix: Looking South. Forgotten constructions of the global - Radu Cinpoes: Meta- reflexivity and social mobilisation in action: Greta Thunberg and the School Strike for Climate movement - Fabienne Martin: The emergence of a smart global community. Zooms in and out from Miyako (Japan) - Rémi Astruc . Translated by Tara Ostiguy: What happened to community? How Latour's actor- network theory deals with this key notion in sociology - Antonin Chambon . Translated by Phoebe Chetwynd and Tara Ostiguy: Messianism and community - Graham Roberts: The global context of men's fashion photography in contemporary Russia.

O autorze

Pascale Cohen-Avenel is full professor at Paris Nanterre university where she co-directs the CRPM, Centre de Recherches Pluridisciplinaires Multilingues. Her research focuses on national stereotypes in popular culture and globalization as well as on representations of violence in the Franco-German wars.

Lucia Quaquarelli is associated professor at Paris Nanterre university, where she co-directs the CRPM, Centre de Recherches Pluridisciplinaires Multilingues. Her research focuses on the transformations of contemporary narrative and the cultural and political impact of translation.