Full Description
A study of live methods including experimentation, attentiveness, collaboration, multi–media platforms, public sociology, the game of social life and research, idiotic methods, scavenging, mapping and topologies
Global in scope and inter–woven by theoretical and methodological considerations
Chapters emerge from the Methods Lab at Goldsmiths University which is committed to developing inventive ways of 'doing sociology'
Studies the practice of sociological imagination and the aim is to make social research responsive to social life – to bring it alive
Contents
Series editor's introduction (Chris Shilling)
A manifesto for live methods: provocations and capacities (Les Back and Nirmal Puwar)
ART
Live sociology: social research and its futures (Les Back)
Curating sociology (Nirmal Puwar and Sanjay Sharma)
Seeing it whole: staging totality in social theory and art (Alberto Toscano)
STORYING
Once upon a problem (Mariam Motamedi Fraser)
Learning to be affected: social suffering and total pain at life's borders (Yasmin Gunaratnam)
DIGITAL
Being stuck in (live) time: the sticky sociological imagination (Emma Uprichard)
The redistribution of methods: on intervention in digital social research, broadly conceived (Noorjte Marres)
DESIGNS
De–signing the object of sociology: toward an `idiotic' methodology (Mike Michael)
Going live: towards an amphibious sociology (Celia Lury)
Notes on contributors
Index
