| Ideas of Difference: Social Spaces and the Labour of Division Contributor(s): Hetherington, Kevin (Editor), Munro, Rolland (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0631207686 ISBN-13: 9780631207689 Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell OUR PRICE: $46.31 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 1998 Annotation: This book introduces contemporary writing about difference through the idea of the labor of division. The contributors see divisions as artefacts that are not only produced in representations of the social but are performed as a continuous labor." Ideas of Difference" will appeal to anyone working on identity, organizing, materiality, ethics or spatiality. In reversing the traditional 'division of labor' the book puts the issue of difference in question. The issue is not so much that differences are reproduced through social constructions, as that of identifying the work that social construction allows in creating, consuming and switching "divisions." Divisions are no longer seen as fixed, or natural, but are implicated in performing difference. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 302 |
| LCCN: 67024556 |
| Series: Sociological Review Monographs |
| Physical Information: 0.84" H x 5.48" W x 8.54" (0.91 lbs) 312 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book introduces contemporary writing about difference through the idea of the labour of division. The contributors see divisions as artefacts that are not only produced in representations of the social but are performed as a continuous labour. Ideas of Difference will appeal to anyone working on identity, organizing, materiality, ethics or spatiality. In reversing the traditional 'division of labour'. the book puts the issue of difference in question. The issue is not so much that differences are reproduced through social constructions, but of identifying the work that social construction allows in creating, consuming and switching 'divisions'. Divisions are no longer seen as fixed, or natural, but are implicated in performing difference. |