Ideas of difference : social spaces and the labour of division / edited by Kevin Hetherington and Rolland Munro.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hetherington, Kevin.

Munro, Rolland.

Series:

Sociological review monograph

Sociological review monograph series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Division of labor.

Difference (Philosophy).

Occupations--Sociological aspects.

Occupations.

Physical Description:

vii, 304 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers/The Sociological Review, 1997.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Ideas of difference : stability, social spaces and the labour of division / Rolland Munro

The visibility of social systems / Robert Cooper

Gender, division or comparison? / Marilyn Strathern

In the wake of disaster : stress, hysteria and the event / Steven D. Brown

Identity in a culture of dissection : body, self and knowledge / Karen Dale

Dividing organizations and multiplying identities / Martin Parker

The labour of division : the manager as 'self' and 'other' / Tony J. Watson

Resisting pictures : representation, distribution and ontological politics / John Law and Ruth Benschop

In place of geometry : the materiality of place / Kevin Hetherington

Home-made space and the will to disconnect / Steve Hinchliffe

The melancholy of the black widow / Heather Höpfl

On words and clocks : temporal ordering in a ward for autistic youths / Ruud Hendriks

Older people in hospital : the labour of division, affirmation and the stop / Joanna E. Latimer.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0631207686

OCLC:

38266435