Distortion: social processes beyond the structured and systematic PDF

Nigel Rapport fühlt sich an der richtigen Stelle, um seine Forschungen zum Weltbürgertum voranzutreiben. Rapport wechselte von der University of St. Andrews in Schottland zum Department of Sociology and Anthropology von Concordia. Es ist eine Veränderung von einer kleinen mittelalterlichen Stadt, die er als „Cambridge by the sea“ bezeichnet, zu einer Großstadt mit urbanem Campus. Der britische Anthropologe wurde zum Canada Research Chair, Tier 1 in Globalization, Citizenship and Social Justice ernannt. Er ist auch Gründungsdirektor des Concordia Center for Cosmopolitan Studies, das Forschungsprogramme und Workshops ins Leben ruft, die die Rechte, Fähigkeiten und Erfahrungen des globalen Individuums würdigen.

Distortion: social processes beyond the structured and systematic pdf von Nigel Rapport

Distortion occurs between the intentions of actions and their outcomes. It can also occur between thoughts and actions; between words and how they are interpreted; between a statement of law and its enactment; between a vision and its artistic representation; and between a cultural tradition or habitus and its animation in contemporary contexts. Escaping the bounds of relationality, of structuration and of systemics, distortion is a form of complex connectedness that has seldom been addressed in the social sciences as a phenomenon in its own right. This volume argues for the key importance of distortion as a concept in the social sciences, and attempts to refine it as a concept. Each chapter examines distortion in the context of an ethnographic case study, examining how its conceptualization can further comprehension of a particular ethnographic situation. It is contended that distortion is an account of the emergent or revolutionary nature of human life, an emergence that can be attached to particular antecedent conditions in a processual or temporal way yet is a transformation of the essential nature of those conditions.