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Zusatztext This is a wonderful! lucid and scholarly exploration of the new opportunities for the conduct of an artful sociology that is vital and publicly engaged. The way Lambert links live sociology with debates about performativity and the queering of live sociology is brilliant and really pushes this cluster of methodological practices and ideas into new and exciting directions.Les Back!Professor!Sociology Department! Goldsmiths University of London! UKCath Lambert has given us a treasure trove in The Live Art of Sociology! brimming as it is with intellectual resources and real-world examples that breathe fresh life into sociological aesthetics. By encouraging us to recognise and stay with the discomfort that comes from uncertainty and not-knowing! this beautifully written and generative work opens sociological thinking and methodology to the affective! haptic and other sensual registers of the social world. With queer feminist politics at its beating heart! The Live Art of Sociology is the book so many of us have been waiting for. An animated! insightful! witty and ethically provocative companion.YasminGunaratnam! Reader!Sociology Department! Goldsmiths University of London! UKLambert offers us something both generative and representative "?an ethics of beholding and accounting for what we see! hear! feel and understand from our research encounters." ...This is a very personal! theoretical and methodological route to live?Lambert here shows us how [live art sociology] engages! challenges! entertains and! most of all! imagines.Dr Ron Iphofen! Independent Research Consultant! British Sociological Association Informationen zum Autor Cath Lambert is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK. Klappentext This book attends to the importance of 'the live' in contemporary social and political life. With case study examples, Lambert successfully demonstrates the diverse ways in which art can provide the aesthetic and affective conditions for social and political disruption. Zusammenfassung This book attends to the importance of ‘the live’ in contemporary social and political life. With case study examples, Lambert successfully demonstrates the diverse ways in which art can provide the aesthetic and affective conditions for social and political disruption. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: political aesthetics, cultural studies, queer and reparative theory and method Politics and praxis of live art Live sociology: generative and uncertain methodologies in action Fierce pedagogies: producing dissensual knowledges and subjects Bodies and embodied encounters in live practice The im/possibilities of live time Conclusions: towards a hopeful art ...
