1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996321910103316

Titolo

Journal of research initiatives

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Fayetteville, NC : , : School of Education, Fayetteville State University, , 2013-

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

370

Soggetti

Education - Research

Education

Periodicals.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910411919903321

Titolo

Practices of Comparing : Towards a New Understanding of a Fundamental Human Practice / Angelika Epple, Walter Erhart, Johannes Grave

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld, : Bielefeld University Press, 2020

ISBN

9783839451663

3839451663

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (406 p.)

Collana

BiUP General

Disciplina

304.2

Soggetti

Practices

Theory

Comparing

Comparison

Historical Change

Digital Humanities

Society

Cultural History

Literature

Literary Studies

Political Sociology



Sociology of Knowledge

Bielefeld University Press

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter    1 Contents    5 Acknowledgements    7 Practices of Comparing    11 Preliminary Typology of Comparative Utterances    39 Incomparability    87 Odysseus, Blackbirds, and Rain Barrels    111 Where Do Rankings Come From?    137 The Weight of Comparing in Medieval England    173 The Shifting Grounds of Comparison in the French Renaissance    199 Comparison and East-West Encounter    213 Japan as the Absolute 'Other'    229 "Goût de Comparaison"    257 Inventing White Beauty and Fighting Black Slavery    295 The Politicisation of Comparisons    329 Genealogies of Modernism    349 Comparing in the Digital Age    377 Authors and Editors    401

Sommario/riassunto

Practices of comparing shape how we perceive, organize, and change the world. Supposedly innocent, practices of comparing play a decisive role in forming categories, boundaries, and hierarchies; but they can also give an impetus to question and change such structures. Like almost no other human practice, comparing pervades all social, political, economic, and cultural spheres. This volume outlines the program of a new research agenda that places comparative practices at the center of an interdisciplinary exploration. Its contributions combine case studies with overarching systematic considerations. They show what insights can be gained and which further questions arise when one makes a seemingly trivial practice – comparing – the subject of in-depth research.

Besprochen in:https://ekvv.uni-bielefeld.de, 24.07.2020