The Making of Law: An Ethnography of the Conseil d'Etat - Bruno LaTour

Reducere. In this book, Bruno Latour pursues his ethnographic inquiries into the different value systems of modern societies. After science, technology, reli...

Building on his earlier book We Have Never Been Modern, Bruno Latour develops his argument about the Modern fetishization of facts, or the creation...

This highly original work presents laboratory science in a deliberately skeptical way: as an anthropological approach to the culture of the scienti...

Through case studies of scientists in the Amazon analyzing soil and in Pasteur's lab studying the fermentation of lactic acid, Latour shows us the ...

Pasteur's success depended upon a whole network of forces, including the public hygiene movement, the medical profession and colonial interests. It...

Reducere. In People of the Saltwater, Charles R. Menzies explores the history of an ancient Tsimshian community, focusing on the people and their enduring pl...

Reducere. This text looks at Bruno Latour specifically as a philosopher. Part one covers four key works in Latour's career in metaphysics, while part two ide...

„Identificand, inca din 1999, prin cartea de fata, Politicile naturii, faptul ca stiintele care ar trebui re-asociate politicii pentru a creste gra...

Reducere. Financial collapses--whether of the junk bond market, the Internet bubble, or the highly leveraged housing market--are often explained as the inevi...

Liquidated uses ethnographic research, traditionally used to study distant societies, to dissect the culture of high finance on New York's famous W...

The first ethnography of Wikipedia's organization, governance, and power structure, Common Knowledge argues that many criticisms of Wikipedia have ...

Most incidents of urban unrest in recent decades - including the riots in France, Britain and other Western countries - have followed lethal intera...

Challenging the view that globalization signifies a 'clash' of cultures, this book here develops friction in its place as a metaphor for the confli...

The Object of Conservation examines how historic buildings, monuments and artefacts are cared for as valued embodiments of the past. It tells the f...

Reducere. DescriptionImagining Transgender is an ethnography of the emergence and institutionalization of transgender as a category of collective identity an...

A rich ethnography of ecopolitics in Hong Kong in the late 1990sPublisher: Duke University PressAuthor(s): Timothy ChoyIllustration(s): 2 figuresNu...

Reducere. Although elected to the prestigious French Academy in 1990, Michel Serres has long been considered a maverick--a provocative thinker whose prolific...

Reducere. The present ecological mutation has organized the whole political landscape for the last thirty years. This could explain the deadly cocktail of ex...

Bruno Latour is among the most important figures in contemporary philosophy and social science. His ethnographic studies have revolutionized our un...

Reducere. Priests of the Law tells the story of the first people in the history of the common law to think of themselves as legal professionals. In the middl...

Reducere. DescriptionWearing the colour red, living by the 'law of lawlessness' and having the patch with the emblem of the mighty bulldog on your back was w...

DescriptionThe present ecological mutation has organized the whole political landscape for the last thirty years. This could explain the deadly coc...

Reducere. `` A] remarkable biography....Moorehead deftly wields periods detail...to tell the story of a captivating woman who kept her sense of self amid the...

Shows how an unexpected coterie of scholars, practitioners, and ordinary individuals negotiated the contests and challenges of colonial legal chang...

Publisher: Transcript VerlagAuthor(s): Frauke MoerikeNumber of pages: 300Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 147 x 225 x 27Cover type: Paperback / so...

Based on John Kingdon's theory of the multiple streams, the book explains the origins of the legislative process and its outcomes by examining the ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Susan (University of Auckland, New Zealand) WatsonNumber of pages: 336Collection: Contemporary Studi...

DescriptionThrough an ethnographic study of an internationally renowned NGO situated in Rajasthan, India, this book investigates the methods and pr...

An ethnographic and historical study of the main Albania-Greece highway, exploring the post-Cold War political and cultural transformation of Europ...