Elias Conference, Brussels, 5-8 December 2018
Global Interdependencies: What’s new in the human society of individuals? The political and academic relevance of Norbert Elias’s work today Brussels, Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles 5–8 December 2018 The Research Centre in Political Science (CReSPo) and the Institute for European Studies (IEE) of...
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The journal Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty is looking for contributions to the study of fashion, body, beauty, identity and appearance. This flagship fashion journal of Intellect Books launched 8 years ago, spearheaded a successful series of visual culture...
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Read moreNew book: Excitement Processes
Jan Haut, Paddy Dolan, Dieter Reicher and Raúl Sánchez García (eds), Excitement Processes : Norbert Elias’s unpublished works on sports, leisure, body, culture (Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2017), 322 pp. ISBN: 9783658149116. This book contains some of the most important of...
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Read moreNew Book: The Social Organisation of Marketing: A Figurational Approach
The Social Organisation of Marketing: A Figurational Approach to People, Organisations, and Markets Editors: John Connolly and Paddy Dolan The book examines the social processes which have shaped the development and organisation of various marketing practices and activities, and the...
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Read moreCfP ISA Toronto 2018: Elias, Habitus and Organizations
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Read moreAndrew Abbott: Processual Sociology
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RC 56 : Historical Sociology DEADLINE : Abstracts must be submitted by 20 September 20th 2017, through the ISA conference website Combat at a distance is not new and precedes what Elias called "the civilizing process", but the development and generalization...
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