Ambiguous Multiplicities - Materials, Episteme and Politics of Cluttered Social Formations

Informationen zum Autor Andrea Mubi Brighenti is Aggregate Professor of Social Theory at the University of Trento, Italy. His main research threads include space and society, visibility, ethnography and social theory. His recent publications include Visibility in Social Theory and Social Research. Klappentext This book proposes a historical-conceptual journey into the cluttered social formations that have remained outside of mainstream sociology. In particular, it reviews urban crowds, mediated publics, global masses, population, the sovereign people and the multitude and addresses the question: 'What is the building block of the social?'. Zusammenfassung This book proposes a historical-conceptual journey into the cluttered social formations that have remained outside of mainstream sociology. In particular! it reviews urban crowds! mediated publics! global masses! population! the sovereign people and the multitude and addresses the question: 'What is the building block of the social?'. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Multiplicities Old and New 2. Urban Crowds, Mediated Publics and Global Masses 3. Population, 'the People' and the Multitude 4. What is the Building Block of the Social? Episteme of the One and the Many 5. Across and Within: Issues of Virality, Imitation and Reactivity Conclusions: Visible Multiplicities and Layered Individuals

List of contents

1. Multiplicities Old and New 2. Urban Crowds, Mediated Publics and Global Masses 3. Population, 'the People' and the Multitude 4. What is the Building Block of the Social? Episteme of the One and the Many 5. Across and Within: Issues of Virality, Imitation and Reactivity Conclusions: Visible Multiplicities and Layered Individuals

Product details

• Authors: a Mubi Brighenti, A. Mubi Brighenti, Andrea Brighenti
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.02.2014
• EAN: 9781137384980
• ISBN: 978-1-137-38498-0
• No. of pages: 88
• Series: Palgrave Pivot; Palgrave Pivot
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Population, C, Culture, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Sociology of Culture, Social Theory, Social History, Political Science, Urban Sociology, Political science and theory, Social sciences—Philosophy, Demography, Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Population and Demography, Sociology, Urban, Urban Studies/Sociology, Urban communities, politics;population;sociology