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Record Nr.

UNINA9910437641403321

Titolo

Practising Comparison : Logics, Relations, Collaborations / / edited by Joe Deville, Michael Guggenheim, Zuzana Hrdličková

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester : , : Mattering Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-9931449-4-2

Edizione

[First edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource)

Soggetti

Social sciences - Methodology

Social sciences - Comparative method

Comparison (Philosophy)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction: The practices and infrastructures of comparison / Joe Deville, Michael Guggenheim and Zuzana Hrdličková -- 2. Comparative research: Beyond linear-causal explanation / Monika Krause -- 3. Cross comparison: Comparisons across architectural displays of colonial power / Alice Santiago Faria -- 4. Same, same but different: Provoking relations, assembling the comparator / Joe Deville, Michael Guggenheim and Zuzana Hrdličková -- 5. Pulling oneself out of the traps of comparison: An autoethnography of a European project / Madeleine Akrich and Vololona Rabeharisoa -- 6. Frame against the grain: Asymmetries, interference and the politics of EU comparison / Tereza Stöckelová -- 7. Lateral comparisons / Christopher Gad and Casper Bruun Jensen -- 8. Comparative tinkering with care moves / Peter Lutz -- 9. Comparing comparisons: On rankings and accounting in hospitals and universities / Sarah de Rijcke, Iris Wallenburg, Paul Wouters and Roland Bal -- 10. Steve Jobs, terrorists, gentlemen and punks: Tracing the strange comparisons of biohackers / Morgan Meyer -- 11. Afterword: Spaces of comparison and conceptualisation / Jennifer Robinson