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Rhythmanalysis: Place, Mobility, Disruption and Performance
Full text linkThis collection brings together new and original research on the concept and practice of ‘rhythmanalysis’ in urban sociology as a means to analyse the relationship between the time and space of the city. It offers a context and introduction to rhythmanalysis and presents a range of studies which use it to analyse – and animate - urban life across Europe and the Americas. Originally proposed by French philosopher and urban scholar, Henri Lefebvre and his collaborator, Catherine Régulier, in the twentieth century, rhythmanalysis continues to capture the attention of urban scholars today. This volume includes in-depth analyses of the rhythms of place-making from the City of London to the Caminito of Buenos Aires. It explores the production of rhythm on the move – in cars and on the street - in relation to urban atmospheres and the implications of mobility for climate emergency. It considers what happens when everyday urban rhythms are disrupted and reconfigured, as in the extended disaster of an earthquake or through tourism and migration. And it delves into the mobilisation of the body, materials and technologies to make and detect rhythm whether in the spontaneous interactions of arts festivals in the UK or a multi-ethnic dance space in Germany. The collection seeks to spark new interest in using rhythmanalysis as a mode of sensing and making sense of the complex entanglements of time and space at the heart of everyday urban life. It will be of interest to scholars and students in urban sociology, social and cultural geography, mobilities studies, and the sociology and philosophy of time
Moral and Cultural Boundaries in Representations of Migrants: Italy and the Netherlands in Comparative Perspective (Chapter 11).
No full textImaginary Geographies: Border-places and ‘Home’ in the Narratives of Migrant Women(Chapter 4).
No full textSociological Conceptualisations of 'Career': A Review and Reorientation
No full textIn the last decades, the use and meaning of the concept of career has profoundly changed, shaped by a 'new career' literature rhetoric and a move away from mainstream sociological debate. Our aim in this article is to provide a critical assessment of the concept, and to make a productive contribution to the current debate on careers, and work more generally. Specifically, we seek to: (i) critique the lack of elaboration of the concept within the discipline of sociology in recent years; (ii) reposition the concept of careers as a key sociological category; and (iii) assess and reorient the current meanings of career. After tracing the history of career from linear to boundaryless, we situate the concept in a broader sociological understanding of gender and habitus and structure and agency, and through a methodological discussion of narrative approaches for studying careers. These concepts and approaches are especially effective for understanding careers. Having showed the added value of the concept of career for sociology, we conclude with a research agenda which attempts to overcome the voluntaristic pitfall of its use in recent years and opens up a more thoughtful and articulated understanding of careers for both teaching and research
Time-Space Patterns in Work and Organizing: Setting the Scene, Taking Stock and Moving Forward
No full textIn the face of an increasing variety of spatio-temporal patterns of work and organisations, we seek to draw attention to time and space in this issue. In our introduction, we argue that they have become constitutive of the ongoing transformations of work in its entanglements with social reproduction, and of the evolving nature of organisations themselves – practices, structures, and organisational cultures. After presenting the framework underpinning this special issue and providing an overview of the contributions it comprises – five articles, three invited contributions from leading international scholars and two book reviews – we propose our own analysis of four interrelated tensions that run through the contributions to the special issue. These tensions concern the autonomy–control dialectic, the ambivalent role of technologies, subjectivities and the reconfiguration of agency, and the work–life tensions that unfold across spatio-temporal arrangements. We highlight how each tension simultaneously shapes and is shaped by contemporary spatio-temporal patterns of work and organisation. Finally, we outline possible avenues for future research that may foster novel theoretical and methodological frameworks capable of better grasping the ongoing metamorphoses of work, organisation, space, and temporality, along with the key tensions that underpin them
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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