UID:
almahu_9947414493502882
Format:
1 online resource (xiv, 276 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511488887 (ebook)
Series Statement:
Cambridge cultural social studies
Content:
This book combines original theoretical analysis with real life case studies to examine the nature of the standoff. Starting with the standoffs of Wounded Knee, MOVE, Ruby Ridge, Waco, Freeman of Montana, Tupac Amaru, Republic of Texas, the author explores the archetypal patterns of human action and cognition that move us into and out of these highly charged situations and seeks to theorize the contingency of all such moments. As an emergency situation where interaction is both frozen and continuing, the standoff evokes original ideas about time, space and appropriate or anticipated action and individuals and organisations often find their standard operating procedures and categories deflected and transformed. By tracking and analysing such impositions and deflections, this book aims to develop a theory of the fundamental existential indeterminacy of social life and the possible role that improvisation can play in navigating this indeterminacy and preventing a violent and destructive conclusion. Co-winner of the 2001 Best Book Award given by the Sociology of Culture Section of the American Sociological Association.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Acknowledgements -- Theorizing contingency -- The times of standoffs -- The spaces of standoffs -- The action of standoffs -- Endings and improvisations.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780521652445
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
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Sociology
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511488887
URL:
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