Practising Comparison : Logics, Relations, Collaborations / / edited by Joe Deville, Michael Guggenheim, Zuzana Hrdličková
This book compares things, objects, concepts, and ideas. It is also about the practical acts of doing comparison. Comparison is not something that exists in the world, but a particular kind of activity. Agents of various kinds compare by placing things next to one another, by using software programs...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Manchester : : Mattering Press,, 2016 ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | First edition |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 online resource) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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