The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces

The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
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Publisher : Ingram
Total Pages : 125
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ISBN-10 : 097063241X
ISBN-13 : 9780970632418
Rating : 4/5 (1X Downloads)

Synopsis The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces by : William Hollingsworth Whyte

The Social Life Of Small Urban Spaces.

Writing in Social Spaces

Writing in Social Spaces
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 192
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ISBN-10 : 9781317627128
ISBN-13 : 1317627121
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis Writing in Social Spaces by : Rowena Murray

Writing in Social Spaces addresses the problem of making time and space for writing in academic life and work of the professionals and practitioners who do academic writing'. Even those who want to write, who know how to write well and who have quality publications, report that they cannot find enough time for writing. Many supervisors are unsure about how to help postgraduates improve their writing for thesis and publication. Whilst the problem does presents through concerns with ‘time’, it is also partly about writing practices, academic identities and lack of motivation. This book provides a research-based, theorised approach to the skill of writing whilst retaining a link to writing practices and giving immediate yet sustainable solutions to the writing problem. It supplies new theory and practice on: socializing writing-in-progress and writing with others exploring the alternation of conscious and unconscious, internal and external processes in academic writing whilst in a social grouping Applying social processes in the writing process Using case studies and vignettes of writing in social spaces to illustrate the theory in practice, This book is a valuable resource for academics, scholars, professionals and practitioners, as well as researchers at all stages of their career, and in all disciplines.

Bourdieu and Social Space

Bourdieu and Social Space
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Publisher : Berghahn Books
Total Pages : 169
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ISBN-10 : 9781789203547
ISBN-13 : 1789203546
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis Bourdieu and Social Space by : Deborah Reed-Danahay

French sociologist and anthropologist Pierre Bourdieu’s relevance for studies of spatiality and mobility has received less attention than other aspects of his work. Here, Deborah Reed-Danahay argues that the concept of social space, central to Bourdieu’s ideas, addresses the structured inequalities that prevail in spatial choices and practices. She provides an ethnographically informed interpretation of social space that demonstrates its potential for new directions in studies of mobility, immobility, and emplacement. This book traces the links between habitus and social space across the span of Bourdieu’s writings, and places his work in dialogue with historical and contemporary approaches to mobility.

Spatial Analysis and Social Spaces

Spatial Analysis and Social Spaces
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages : 320
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ISBN-10 : 311026594X
ISBN-13 : 9783110265941
Rating : 4/5 (4X Downloads)

Synopsis Spatial Analysis and Social Spaces by : Eleftheria Paliou

In recent years a range of formal methods of spatial analysis have been developed for the study of human engagement, experience and socialisation within the built environment. This volume brings together contributions from a number of specialists in archaeology, social theory, architecture, and urban planning, who explore the theoretical and methodological frameworks associated with the application of established and novel spatial analysis methods in prehistoric and historic built environments. The authors discuss the relationship between space and social life from different perspectives and provide many illuminating examples of computer-based spatial analysis methods in archaeology.

Mental Health and Social Space

Mental Health and Social Space
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 9781444399691
ISBN-13 : 1444399691
Rating : 4/5 (91 Downloads)

Synopsis Mental Health and Social Space by : Hester Parr

Through a series of case studies this book brings to the fore the voices, lives, and capacities of people with mental health problems as well as the difficulties they face. It effectively demonstrates the ways people with mental health problems are active in re-scripting versions of social recovery through their use of very different community spaces. Offers a 'hopeful epistemology' not typically found in mental health-related research Interrogates neo-liberal dogma that defines people with mental health problems as active social citizens wholly responsible for their own recoveries and acceptance Brings to the fore the voices of, lives, capacities and difficulties facing people with mental health problems Imaginatively differentiates rural, urban, interest and technological communities, disrupting familiar and conventional accounts of social inclusion and 'the local' Demonstrates how people with mental health problems are active in re-scripting their own social recoveries through their use and understanding of different social spaces

Empirical Investigations of Social Space

Empirical Investigations of Social Space
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 444
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ISBN-10 : 9783030153878
ISBN-13 : 3030153878
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis Empirical Investigations of Social Space by : Jörg Blasius

This book provides an in-depth view on Bourdieu’s empirical work, thereby specially focusing on the construction of the social space and including the concept of the habitus. Themes described in the book include amongst others: • the theory and methodology for the construction of “social spaces”, • the relation between various “fields” and “the field of power”, • formal construction and empirical observation of habitus, • the formation, accumulation, differentiation of and conversion between different forms of capital, • relations in geometric data analysis. The book also includes contributions regarding particular applications of Bourdieu’s methodology to traditional and new areas of research, such as the analysis of institutional, international and transnational fields. It further provides a systematic introduction into the empirical construction of the social space.

New Transnational Social Spaces

New Transnational Social Spaces
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 259
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ISBN-10 : 9781134559336
ISBN-13 : 113455933X
Rating : 4/5 (36 Downloads)

Synopsis New Transnational Social Spaces by : Ludger Pries

Recent terms such as globalisation, virtual reality, and cyberspace indicate that the traditional notion of the geographic and the social space is changing. New Transnational Social Spaces illustrates the contemporary relationship between the social and the spatial which has emerged with new communication and transportation technologies, alongside the massive transnational movement of people.

Universities as Transformative Social Spaces

Universities as Transformative Social Spaces
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 352
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ISBN-10 : 9780192689313
ISBN-13 : 0192689312
Rating : 4/5 (13 Downloads)

Synopsis Universities as Transformative Social Spaces by : Andrea Kolbel

The realm of higher education, much like everything else in a global and mobile world, has rapidly altered in the last few decades. More and more universities and seats of higher education are using strategies towards ' 'internationalization'; by increasing heterogeneity in rank, student composition, resource endowments, faculty profiles, and their social spaces. The essays in this volume take a critical look at universities across South Asia, more specifically, at the dynamics of student mobility and mobilizations existing in such localized social spaces, and compares these with their counterparts in universities across the world. While elite universities in South Asia, as elsewhere, have been caught in a stiff international competition and are aspiring for the highest ranks, students from the most excluded communities and remote parts of the country seek entry to badly endowed universities, facing obstacles during their courses, and upon seeking entry into employment. The volume evaluates such universities as spaces for mobility opportunity and mobilizations in a globally networked world. It combines local and international perspectives with thorough observations of the dynamics in localized university spaces while embedding them in transnational processes.

Beyond Communities of Practice

Beyond Communities of Practice
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 258
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ISBN-10 : 9780521836432
ISBN-13 : 0521836433
Rating : 4/5 (32 Downloads)

Synopsis Beyond Communities of Practice by : David Barton

This book consists of a set of studies exploring the concept of "communities of practice", which has been influential in social sciences, education, and management in recent years. Its main purpose is to emphasize the importance of areas such as language, power, and social context which are essential to understanding how communities of practice work. The concept has been a particularly influential one but has had little sustained critique, so a book of this kind is timely and necessary.

Performativity, Politics, and the Production of Social Space

Performativity, Politics, and the Production of Social Space
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 319
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ISBN-10 : 9781136208096
ISBN-13 : 1136208097
Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis Performativity, Politics, and the Production of Social Space by : Michael R. Glass

Theories of performativity have garnered considerable attention within the social sciences and humanities over the past two decades. At the same time, there has also been a growing recognition that the social production of space is fundamental to assertions of political authority and the practices of everyday life. However, comparatively little scholarship has explored the full implications that arise from the confluence of these two streams of social and political thought. This is the first book-length, edited collection devoted explicitly to showcasing geographical scholarship on the spatial politics of performativity. It offers a timely intervention within the field of critical human geography by exploring the performativity of political spaces and the spatiality of performative politics. Through a series of geographical case studies, the contributors to this volume consider the ways in which a performative conception of the "political" might reshape our understanding of sovereignty, political subjectification, and the production of social space. Marking the 20th anniversary of the publication of Judith Butler’s classic, Bodies That Matter (1993), this edited volume brings together a range of contemporary geographical works that draw exciting new connections between performativity, space, and politics.