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Nature & Sociology – new book by Tim Newton

Posted on August 13, 2007 by admin Nature and Sociology. London: Routledge. August 2007: 212pp. ISBN: 978-0-415-366847 (hardback, £65); ISBN: 978-0-415-36683-0 (paperback, £22.99) Nature has become increasingly central to social thinking. From the social implications of environmental degradation to the...

Last edited on: 2007-08-13

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Elias, Actor-Network Theory and Neo-liberalism

Posted on July 20, 2007 by Tim Newton A couple of brief questions in the hope of some answers … 1. Does anyone know of work on Elias and Actor-Network theory? The ISI ‘web of knowledge’ only produces articles by...

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Elias, Actor-Network Theory and Neo-liberalism

Posted on July 20, 2007 by Tim Newton A couple of brief questions in the hope of some answers … 1. Does anyone know of work on Elias and Actor-Network theory? The ISI ‘web of knowledge’ only produces articles by...

Last edited on: 2007-07-20

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Civilizing Security

Posted on June 11, 2007 by admin A book recently published by two criminologists, Ian Loader and Neil Walker, titled Civilizing Security (CUP, 2007), aims to provide some useful reflections on the way that the state manages security in the world...

Last edited on: 2007-06-11

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Desperately seeking pigeons

Posted on June 4, 2007 by Stephen Mennell Eric Dunning recently recalled having written an article with Norbert Elias on the popular working-class hobby of pigeon racing, sometime in the late 1960s, which he thought had been published in an...

Last edited on: 2007-06-04

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Anti-War Film

Posted on May 24, 2007 by Thomas Scheff My 58 minute anti-war film will begin playing nationwide on June 4, and about 20 more times in June and July. Crying is a subtext of the film; there is a lot...

Last edited on: 2007-05-24

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Concrete and Abstract: Elias, Cooley, Freud, and Goffman

Posted on May 19, 2007 by Thomas Scheff My iron law of all online forums is that they first blossom then wither. So be it. This is my attempt to stave off the process on this forum for a while....

Last edited on: 2007-05-19

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Panel ‘Norbert Elias and International Relations’

Posted on May 2, 2007 by Herbert Dittgen Dear All, I am currently considering to propose a panel on “Norbert Elias and international Relations” for the convention of the International Studies Association in San Francisco next year. Who is interested...

Last edited on: 2007-05-02

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ISA World Congress 2010

Posted on April 29, 2007 by admin Dear Elias-I list members We write to you with good news about plans for a “figurational presence” at the ISA World Congress of Sociology in Göteborg in 2010. Many subscribers to the Elias-I...

Last edited on: 2007-04-29

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Wie kent de theorieën van RW Connell?

Posted on April 10, 2006 by Barbara Wiemann Dear all, Do you know somebody, who is or has been working on the theory on gender/masculinities, which R.W. Connell developed in his books Gender and Power (1987), Masculinities (1995) and Gender...

Last edited on: 2007-04-10

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