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Folk Culture and Political Power: Practices and Representations of Moliceiro Culture in Portugal

Sarmento, C. — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:54:39 PST

This article analyses the painted panels of the moliceiro boat, a traditional working boat of the Ria de Aveiro region of Por tugal. The ar ticle examines how the painted panels have been invented and reinvented over time. The boat and its panels are contextualized both within the changing socio-economic conditions of the Ria de Aveiro region, and the changing socio-political conditions of Portugal throughout the 20th century and until the present day. The article historically analyses the social significance of ‘moliceiro culture’, examining in particular the power relations it expresses and its ambiguous past and present relationships with the political and the economic powers of the Portuguese state. The article unpacks some of the complexity of the relations that have pertained between public and private, local and national, folk culture and ‘art’, and popular and institutional in the Ria de Aveiro region in particular, and Portugal more generally.

Drugs and Symbolic Pollution: The Work of Cultural Logic in the Russian Press

Meylakhs, P. — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:54:39 PST

This article is devoted to analysis of the ‘media drug wave’ that occurred in Russia at the end of the 1990s. Following a general description of the coverage of the drug problem by the Russian press, the article sets out to explore some reasons that may help to explain the extremely negative attitude of the media and the overwhelming majority of the Russian population to drugs and drug users. Drawing on the cultural theory of risk, it is argued that such an attitude cannot be explained in rational terms of the negative consequences for the health and security of members of society; rather, drugs and drug users are perceived to be symbolic polluters of society. Cultural codes of purity and pollution can help clarify several key themes that inform political and public debates around drugs in Russia. The social context (rise of ‘Russian neomoralism’) in which the drug problem was constructed is outlined.

Rethinking Difficult Pasts: Bloody Sunday (1972) as a Case Study

Conway, B. — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:54:39 PST

The sociological literature on collective memory puts forward fragmented and multivocal commemorations as two dominant ways of responding to difficult pasts. This article argues that there is room for improvement in these models by specifying the conditions under which a controversial past can be remembered initially in a fragmented way and, with greater temporal distance from the original event, can evolve into a more consensual form of commemoration in which the past is seized upon as a resource to advance the politics of reconciliation between two opposing identity groups in an unsettled society. An evolving political climate, active memory choreography, and the usability of the past in the present all help account for this. The empirical evidence to support this theoretical claim comes from a long-range, historical study of the case of Bloody Sunday (1972).

Book Review: Kasia Boddy Boxing: A Cultural History Reaktion, London, 2008, {pound}25 hbk, {pound}17.95 pbk, 480 pp. ISBN: 1861893698

Sammons, J. — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:54:39 PST

Book Review: Michael Grenfell and Cheryl Hardy Art Rules: Pierre Bourdieu and the Visual Arts Berg, Oxford and New York, 2007, {pound}55 hbk, {pound}16.99 pbk, 212 pp. ISBN: 1845202341

Bielsa, E. — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:54:39 PST

Book Review: Grant Blank Critics, Ratings, and Society: The Sociology of Reviews Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, 2007, {pound}49.95 hbk, {pound}16.96 pbk, 244 pp. ISBN: 9780742547025

Allen, M. P. — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:54:39 PST

Book Review: Anthony Elliott Making the Cut: How Cosmetic Surgery Is Transforming Our Lives London, Reaktion, 2008, {pound}14.95 pbk, 196 pp. ISBN: 9781861893710

Watson, V. — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:54:39 PST

Book Review: Anthony Elliott Making the Cut: How Cosmetic Surgery Is Transforming Our Lives London, Reaktion, 2008, {pound}14.95 pbk, 196 pp. ISBN: 9781861893710

Watson, V. — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:54:39 PST

Introduction: Rethinking Qualitative and Quantitative Methods

Majima, S., Moore, N. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:54:19 PDT

This article introduces the symposium issue on `Narrative, Numbers and Socio-Cultural Change'.The articles were all papers presented initially at the conference `Narrative, Numbers and Social Change' at the University of Manchester, UK in November 2007.The conference was organized through the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC). Methodological issues have been central to CRESC since its inception, and the Centre has an ongoing commitment to nurturing methodological expertise and innovation in the study of socio-cultural change. This particular event marked an interest in rethinking the boundaries of qualitative and quantitative research and in developing methods adequate to the challenges posed by socio-cultural complexity, in ways which involve reworking some of the conventional understandings of the relationships between the empirical, the theoretical and methodology. The introduction reviews the articles and reflects on their significance in the context of understandings of methods in cultural sociology and the sociology of culture, in the UK and beyond.

Against Epochalism: An Analysis of Conceptions of Change in British Sociology

Savage, M. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:54:19 PDT

The article conducts a historical sociological analysis of the appeal of epochalist modes of social thought, especially as manifested in contemporary British sociology. It lays out key features of contemporary epochalist thinking, showing how it breaks from older evolutionary models of social change which root future events in past conditions.The article argues that one important reason for the power of epochalist thinking is due to the emergence of a distinctive social science research infrastructure based around the sample survey and the interview. I argue that these provide mechanisms for deriving measures of change internally to the research process itself, rather than through the external comparison of separate sources as practised by historians. The article further pulls out the way that the rapid rise of British sociology in the period 1950—70 entailed its championing of the `new' as a means of claiming intellectual legitimacy over the `traditional' social sciences, and seeks to encourage debate about the peculiarities of British sociology.

Seeing Like a Survey

Law, J. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:54:19 PDT

This article explores a performative understanding of social science method. First, it draws on STS to consider the plausibility of the claim that research methods generate not only representations of reality, but also the realities those representations depict. Second, it undertakes an archaeology of a major survey — a Eurobarometer investigation of European citizens' attitudes to farm animal welfare — in order to explore the character of its performativity. Finally, it considers some of the implications of the performativity of research tools for the future of methods in social science.

Between Narrative and Number: The Case of ARUP's 3D Digital City Model

Harvey, P. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:54:19 PDT

This article explores the ways in which contemporary digital visualization technologies offer grounds for a reappraisal of the relationship between qualitative and quantitative data. Using the example of a 3D digital model of the city of Manchester, the question of descriptive adequacy in the social sciences is addressed.The model is an interesting descriptive device oriented simultaneously to providing an accurate account of what is present in the world and a persuasive image of what that world could become. The analysis asks what kind of descriptive device the 3D model is, and looks at how it exercises its persuasive effects. While attending to how diverse knowledge forms are rendered compatible in the model, the concept of `discontinuous data' is introduced to draw attention to incompatible knowledges that do not appear in the model.The article explores the potential of such models to reconfigure discontinuous data forms and to produce provocative counter-maps.

Counting and Seeing the Social Action of Literary Form: Franco Moretti and the Sociology of Literature

Bennett, T. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:54:19 PDT

This paper reviews Franco Moretti's use of statistics and techniques for visualizing the action of literary forms, and assesses their implications for the development of cultural sociology. It compares Moretti's use of such methods with the work of Pierre Bourdieu, contrasting the principles of sociological analysis developed by Bourdieu with Moretti's preoccupation with the analysis of literary form as illustrated by his accounts of the development of the English novel and the role of clues in the organization of detective stories. His attempt to use evolutionary principles of explanation to account for the development of literary forms is probed by considering its similarities to earlier evolutionary accounts of the development of design traits. While welcoming the methodological challenge posed by Moretti's work, its lack of an adequate account of the role of literary institutions is criticized, as are the effects of the forms of abstraction that his analyses rest upon.

Using Mixed Methods for Analysing Culture: The Cultural Capital and Social Exclusion Project

Silva, E., Warde, A., Wright, D. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:54:19 PDT

This article discusses the use of material generated in a mixed method investigation into cultural tastes and practices, conducted in Britain from 2003 to 2006, which employed a survey, focus groups and household interviews. The study analysed the patterning of cultural life across a number of fields, enhancing the empirical and methodological template provided by Bourdieu's Distinction. Here we discuss criticisms of Bourdieu emerging from subsequent studies of class, culture and taste, outline the arguments related to the use of mixed methods and present illustrative results from the analysis of these different types of data.We discuss how the combination of quantitative and qualitative methods informed our analysis of cultural life in contemporary Britain. No single method was able to shed light on all aspects of our inquiry, lending support to the view that mixing methods is the most productive strategy for the investigation of complex social phenomena.

Narratives of Disability and the Movement from Deficiency to Difference

Gray, C. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:54:19 PDT

In this article, I argue that the study of disability would be thoroughly enriched if the insights offered by cultural sociology as well as recent work on civil society were applied to it. I illustrate this point by offering my own interpretation of contrasting discourses of disability and their relationship to major narrative frameworks of disability. I describe how these narrative frameworks are dependent on a symbolic code that distinguishes between the abilities and inabilities of the physical body.

Book Review: Eamonn Carrabine Crime, Culture and the Media Polity Press, Cambridge, 2008, {pound}15.99 pbk, {pound}55 hbk, 300 pp. ISBN: 139780745634661

Green, D. A. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:54:19 PDT

Book Review: Emma Casey Women, Pleasure and the Gambling Experience Ashgate, Aldershot, 2008, {pound}55 hbk, 156 pp. ISBN: 9780754646174

Reith, G. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:54:19 PDT

Book Review: Alistair Gordon Naked Airport: A Cultural History of the World's Most Revolutionary Structure University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2008, $17 pbk, 305 pp. ISBN: 139780226304564

Coulton, J. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:54:19 PDT

Book Review: Sophie Woodward Why Women Wear What They Wear Berg, Oxford, 2007, {pound}19.99 pbk, {pound}55 hbk, 224 pp. ISBN: 9781845206994

Lewis, R. — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:54:19 PDT

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Higher, Faster, Louder: Representations of the International Music Competition

McCormick, L. — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:57:11 PST

Competitions have been a visible and controversial part of the classical music world for over a century, yet sociologists have strangely neglected to study their social significance.This article explores the competition's ongoing contest for legitimacy by considering the case of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.Through a discourse analysis of publicity materials and media coverage, I reconstruct the symbolic frameworks that guide the construction of the event and the interpretation of competitors' performances. I also trace the critical challenge to the idealized representations of the event, and decode the gender ideologies implied in commonly used metaphors. Demonstrating the centrality of meaning in musical production and reception, I aim to expose the limitations of the production perspective and Bourdieu's model of the artistic field, offering in their place a new approach based on social performance.

Displaying Desire and Distinction in Housing

Silva, E. B., Wright, D. — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:57:11 PST

The article discusses the significance of cultural capital for the understanding of the field of housing in contemporary Britain. It explores the relationship between housing and the position of individuals in social space mapped out by means of a multiple correspondence analysis. It considers the material aspects of housing and the changing contexts that are linked to the creation and display of desire for social position and distinction expressed in talk about home decoration as personal expression and individuals' ideas of a `dream house'. It is based on an empirical investigation of taste and lifestyle using nationally representative survey data and qualitative interviews. The article shows both that personal resources and the imagination of home are linked to levels of cultural capital, and that rich methods of investigation are required to grasp the significance of these normally invisible assets to broaden the academic understanding of the field of housing in contemporary culture.

The Constraints of Culture: Evidence from the Chicago Dyke March

Brown-Saracino, J., Ghaziani, A. — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:57:11 PST

Drawing on an ethnographic study of the Chicago Dyke March, this article focuses on an instance in which a movement's ideology and identity contradict in order to advance, the theoretical question of how culture `works'. In forming as a reaction to perceived exclusions by the national and annual Gay Pride parades, Dyke March organizers developed an ideological commitment to inclusion.This ideology affected the March in three key areas: constructing an organizing structure, establishing recruitment and outreach procedures, and engaging in framing processes. However, the Dyke March's broad ideological commitment to inclusion conflicted with organizers' narrower collective identity, which formed around and celebrated a specific type of movement participant, and thus undermined their mobilization efforts. This study suggests that organizational dilemmas can arise for movements when their culture has internally contradictory elements. It introduces new theoretical perspectives about the conditions under which cultural elements work more or less effectively.

Argument Forms, Frames, and Value Conflict: Persuasion in the Case of Same-Sex Marriage

Ghoshal, R. — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:57:11 PST

Is telling stories politically effective? Recent debates around the efficacy of storytelling have challenged the view that narratives are an effective means of political persuasion. This article empirically examines the persuasiveness of narratives through the lens of recent controversies over same-sex marriage. Through a survey-experiment, I test the effects of different kinds of arguments on heterosexuals' views on same-sex marriage. I find some support for long-standing claims of the efficacy of stories; however, stories are not always effective, and their perceived efficacy outstrips their actual efficacy.The findings suggest that narrative appeals along with non-narrative appeals that directly challenge ideas of same-sex marriage as inherently a religious issue are most likely to induce greater favourability toward same-sex marriage.The results help specify the types of issues for which narrative appeals might be expected to be effective, ineffective, or counterproductive, and further illuminate cultural dimensions of debates over same-sex marriage.

Macaulay's (Cyber) Children: The Cultural Politics of Outsourcing in India

Nadeem, S. — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:57:11 PST

This article explores how globalization is shaping the aspirations and identities of the Indian middle class and in particular those employed by the outsourcing industry. While these aspirations do not have a clearly defined object, they cluster around an idea of the West as the locus of modernity.The West's mystique derives, no doubt as it did in the colonial period, from the fact that it is the author of dramatic change. But this also prompts a certain anxiety among the middle class that such change is somehow corrupting. Drawing on in-depth interviews and ethnographic fieldwork in India, I argue that globalization does not herald an era of unprecedented personal freedom, a belated modernity, nor does it signify a crisis of the `traditional' Indian family. It is an Indian morality play where the pleasure principle clashes with the demands of custom and obligation, where kama (pleasure) and dharma (duty) meet in uneasy suspension.

Beyond `La Dolce Vita': Bourdieu, Market Heteronomy and Cultural Homogeneity

Thorpe, C. — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:57:11 PST

This article takes the main arguments made by Bourdieu in his late work On Television and Journalism and applies them to the empirical case of the production of discursive visions of Italy and the Italians in Britain from approximately 1840 to the present day. In doing so, Bourdieu's field theory is applied in order to examine and compare the range and diversity of the Italian visions produced at around the mid-point of the 19th century — a period of high cultural autonomy in England — with those produced in the present day. In the account of the present day, the dominant assemblage of discursive practices and the fields from which they derive is explicated and the extent to which these visions are shaped by the `audience ratings' mindset is scrutinized.The article concludes by reflecting on the analytical utility of Bourdieu's field theory for understanding inter-cultural representation.

Visions of Wales: Visual Artists and Cultural Futures

Housley, W. — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:57:11 PST

This article explores the narrative of prominent visual artists practising within post-devolution Wales. The article adopts a sociological approach and does not seek to engage with perspectives promoted by art history or cultural studies. It utilises exemplar narratives gathered from over 20 in-depth ethnographic interviews with established visual artists working in Wales and explores the manner through which practitioners display various configurations of cultural futures and, at the same time, occupy discursive roles in which the voice of the artist performs visionary and moralizing work in relation to Welsh art-world futures. The article concludes by arguing that such positions and narrative form crucial data and resources for re-conceptualizing cultural policy formation and modernization in which the voice of the artist is recognized, acknowledged and heard.

`From Molehills Mountains Made: An Examination of Red and Blue State Cultural Stereotypes

Koch, P. R., Carr Steelman, L. — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:57:11 PST

Since 2000, in the USA Republican voting states have been called red and the Democrat ones called blue. We explore whether or not the cultural stereotype that red states harbour more virtuous constituents than blue states has merit. We relate the extent to which electoral votes were cast for George Bush during the 2004 election, a variable that we specify as the degree of redness, to a scale of moral conduct at the state level. This scale is a composite of indicators of socially disapproved behaviours that conservatives in particular are more concerned about than are liberals in the USA. The scale is an equally weighted sum of ranks on 13 aggregated indicators of behaviours. Our scale includes activities that are most strongly advocated and campaigned against by conservatives and covers sexual behaviour, substance abuse, family breakdown, and crime rates. Data are extracted from a variety of sources in 2000. We examine the untested presumption that inhabitants of red states are more moral than those in blue states, as some commonly held stereotypes would lead us to believe. No matter how the analysis is conducted, we reach the same inescapable conclusion. The red state/ blue state dichotomy just does not pan out empirically.

Book Review: Jacob Lassner and S. Ilan Troen Jews and Muslims in the Arab World: Haunted by Pasts Real and Imagined Rowman and Littlefield, Plymouth, 2007, {pound}18.99 pbk, 393 pp. ISBN 0--7425--5842--8

Al-Hardan, A. — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:57:11 PST

Book Review: Luc Boltanski and LaurentThevenot (translated by Catherine Porter) On Justification: Economies of Worth Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford, 2006, {pound}23.95 pbk, 400 pp. ISBN: 0--691--12516--3

Godechot, O. — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:57:11 PST

Book Review: Theodor W. Adorno (edited by Robert Hullot-Kentor) Current of Music: Elements of a Radio Theory Suhrkamp, Frankfurt, 2006, {pound}35.91, 691 pp. ISBN: 3--518--58385--9 (also available in English, published by Polity, 2008, ISBN: 0--7456--4285--3). David Jenemann Adorno in America University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2007, {pound}14.50 pbk, xxxv + 243 pp. ISBN: 0--8166--4809--3

Santoro, M. — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:57:11 PST

Book Review: Lisa Jean Moore Sperm Counts: Overcome By Man's Precious Fluid New York University Press, New York and London, 2007, {pound}14.95 pbk, 216 pp. ISBN: 978--0-8147--5718--5

Tomlinson, B. — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:57:11 PST

The Role of Gender in `Expressive' Abuse at Abu Ghraib

Caldwell, R. A., Mestrovic, S. G. — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:43:59 PDT

We analyze the court-martial of Sabrina Harman, one of the alleged `seven rotten apples' associated with specific incidents of abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, vis-a-vis the Parsonian distinction between `instrumental' and `expressive' pattern-variables. The Parsonian distinction between instrumental and expressive roles served a multitude of functions simultaneously, and especially given the masculine code of the military. We move beyond Parsons to introduce the new concepts of `expressive abuse', `expressive torture', and `instrumental misuse of expressive functions' to capture the overall thrust of the courts-martial as well as important aspects of the abuse at Abu Ghraib as revealed through testimony, government reports, interviews, and other sources of data. Both co-authors were participant-observers at the courts-martial of Sabrina Harman and Lynndie England, and draw upon the testimony and data from those trials in addition to the documents that are cited.

Putting a Glitch in the Field: Bourdieu, Actor Network Theory and Contemporary Music

Prior, N. — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:43:59 PDT

Bourdieu's cultural sociology has become increasingly attractive to sociologists of music looking to account for the complex interrelations between industry, institution and practice. There remains, however, a tendency in such work to reduce the complexity and scope of Bourdieu's ideas. This paper attempts to apply Bourdieu's field theory to music, but does so with a critical orientation. The focus of the paper is the fin de millénaire music style called glitch, a style characterized by sonic fragments of technological error. While we learn a lot about the social trajectories of glitch from greater sensitization to its position in a structured setting of socio-economic relations, it becomes difficult to account for the centrality of technological mediators to this contemporary style of music using Bourdieu's categories alone. The paper pursues the possibility of supplementing or combining a Bourdieusian approach with actor network theory.

Cultural Classifications in Literary Education: Trends in Dutch Literary Textbooks, 1968--2000

Verboord, M., van Rees, K. — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:43:59 PDT

This article examines how cultural classification processes develop over time. Specifically, we analyse author selection in literary textbooks for Dutch secondary education, and how this selection has changed since the 1960s. The content analysis of 34 literary textbooks addresses both structural properties of classifications (levels of consensus, hierarchical order and innovation) and background characteristics of selected authors. Results show textbooks increasingly focus on a more limited group of authors, raising the overall levels of consensus and hierarchy. At the same time, textbooks have become more heterogeneous and innovative, inasmuch as they increasingly include female, ethnic minority and semi-literary authors as well as authors who recently made their debut. These results suggest, first, that literary experts continue to influence curriculum content and, second, that the erosion of boundaries between `high art' and `low art' may not be as clear-cut as has recently been suggested.

Common Sense and the Collaborative Production of Class

Pascale, C.-M. — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:43:59 PDT

In the USA, economic inequality, while arguably one of the most material sites of `difference', is often one of the least visible. The presence and meaning of class in daily life may be more vague than at any other time in US history. This article examines how commonsense knowledge about class leads people to engage in practices that systematically disorganize the presence of social and economic capital. The over-arching analytical framework builds a performative analysis of class by situating the personal agency of talk within broader cultural discourses that shape and constrain possibilities for talk. I draw from ethnomethodology and post-structural discourse analysis to analyze talk about class in 1600 pages of transcript from interviews with 23 people. By linking the interpretive practices of talk in interviews to the circulation and repetition of cultural knowledge in discourses, I demonstrate how class identities are constituted through conditions not generally associated with economic processes.

`True Stories' of Canada: Tim Hortons and the Branding of National Identity

Cormack, P. — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:43:59 PDT

This article discusses the connection between brands, national identity and the social and historic practices of the Canadian nation-state. Specifically, it examines the long-running `True Stories' ad campaign of Tim Hortons coffee shops, Canada's most successful quick-service restaurant chain. These ads insert Tim Hortons into customers' stories about travel, endurance and adventure, and authorize Tim Hortons itself as both the site and source of Canada's self-image.This authorization occurs in three ways: 1) by taking advantage of a space generated by overt, statist, bureaucratic management of Canadian identity and culture, 2) by locating national identity within mundane, sensual consumptive desire, and 3) by capitalizing on the ambiguities of articulating Canadian national culture, especially within the context of an officially multi-cultural project.

Our Lady Hates Viscose: The Role of the Customer Image in High Street Fashion Production

Schulz, S. — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:43:59 PDT

This article seeks to lift the lid on the `black box' of fashion production by exploring the role of the customer image within the working practices of UK high street womenswear retailers. Following production of culture and symbolic interactionist approaches to the culture industries, the author suggests that the customer images — that is, practitioners' notions of the likes and dislikes of target customers — facilitate teamwork by smoothing conflicts that arise through the division of labour between designers, buyers and merchandizers. The customer image serves as an ordering principle that helps fashion workers to narrow down the wealth of competing ideas and generally guides their decision-making processes. The creation of colour palettes and `storyboards', as well as the selection and modification of sample garments, will be used as examples of how the ordering principle is applied by designers, buyers and merchandizers throughout the production process.

Book Review: Robin Wagner-Pacifici The Art of Surrender: Decomposing Sovereignty at Conflict's End. University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 2005. xii +210 pp. ISBN 0--226--86978--4 (cloth), 0--226--86979--2 (paper)

Burke, P., Jacobs, M. D. — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:43:59 PDT

Book Review: Mark D. Jacobs and Nancy Weiss Hanrahan.(eds.) The Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Culture Oxford and Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005, 503 pp. ISBN: 0--631--23174--9

Desfor Edles, L. — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:43:59 PDT

Book Review: Kevin Rozario The Culture of Calamity: Disaster and The Making of Modern America, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007, pp. 313 ISBN: 13: 978--0-226--7250--3

Furedi, F. — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:43:59 PDT

Book Review: Doris Bachmann-Medick Cultural Turns -- Neuorientierungen in den Kulturwissenschaften. Reinbeck bei Hamburg: Rowohlts Enzyklopadie, 2006, 410 pp. ISBN 13: 978 3 499 55675 8 / 10: 3 499 55675 8

Benzer, M. — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:43:59 PDT

Book Review: Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel (eds) Making Things Public The MIT Press, London, Cambridge, MA, 2006, $55 hbk, 1074pp. ISBN: 978--0--262--12279--5

Turner, C. — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:43:59 PDT

Book Review: Alan Costall and Ole Dreier (eds) Doing Things with Things: The Design and Use of Everyday Objects Ashgate,Aldershot, 2006, {pound}55 hbk, 252pp. ISBN: 0--7546--4656--4

Dant, T. — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:43:59 PDT

Book Review: Tarleton Gillespie Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture MIT Press, London, 2007, $29.95 hbk, 395pp. ISBN: 978--0--262--07282--3

Jordan, T. — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:43:59 PDT

Book Review: Andrew Light and Jonathan M. Smith (eds) The Aesthetics of Everyday Life New York: Columbia University Press, 2005, $73 hbk (ISBN 0--231--13502--5), $26.50 pbk (ISBN 0--231--13503--3) 240pp

Gardiner, M. E. — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 04:43:59 PDT

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