Rapport Distortion

Social Processes Beyond the Structured and Systemic
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-315-31753-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 194 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Anthropology

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 or a policy 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 book argues that instances of distortion are an important and, paradoxically, habitual aspect of human psychical and social life. The chapters in this book, each based on an ethnographic case-study, all work to put the concept of distortion into effect. How does the conceptualization of distortion further the comprehension of a particular ethnographic situation? Indeed, how does the ethnographic case-study throw a particular light on distortion as a phenomenon?

Coming to terms with distortion adds much to a social-scientific appreciation of human activity and creativity, of conscious experience, of the nature of social interaction and exchange, and of the complexity of social milieu. The book should be essential reading on senior undergraduate and postgraduate modules on social theory, contemporary issues and methodologies, communication, sociality, materiality, and intersectionality.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rapport, Nigel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: 'Distortion' Introduced (Nigel Rapport)

2. Contorted Environments and Distorted Being (Henrik Vigh)

3. The Problem of the Blind Man: When 'A' à 'Ø' (Nina Holm Vohnsen)

4. Distortion and Stanley Spencer's Life in Art (Nigel Rapport)

5. 'Hello, Can You Hear me Better Now?' Mediatized Acoustemologies and Distortion on the Radio (Sandra Lori Petersen)

6. Chains of Distortion: On Anthropology in Consultancy and how New Ideas Come into Being in a Danish Innovation Agency (Lise Røjskjær Pedersen)

7. Fundamentally Existentialist: Optimal Ethical Paradoxes in a Danish Protestant Movement (Morten Axel Pedersen)

8. 'Into the Crack': Scottish Agricultural Revolutions and the Art of Moaning (Morten Nielsen)

9. Epilogue: 'Distortion' Reviewed (Morten Nielsen and Morten Axel Pedersen)

Über Autor(innen)

Nigel Rapport is Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, and Head of School of Philosophy, Anthropology, Film and Music, University of St Andrews, UK