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One dimensional man
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Review Article: Norbert Elias — Established or Outsider?
TL;DR: The Civilizing Process: Volume 2, State Formation and Civilization Norbert Elias, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1982, £19.50 as discussed by the authors, p. 301 pp, p. 376 pp
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iPod use: an urban aesthetics of sonic ubiquity
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the creation of an urban sonic aesthetic through a critical analysis of Apple iPod use based on original ethnographic material, and explore the differing ways in which urban space is mediated through communication technologies like the iPod.
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Rain-Dancing with Pseudo-Science
Ian O. Angell,Bernhard H. Straub +1 more
TL;DR: This polemical essay proposes that the so-called rationality of management science, with its tidy benchmarking, auditing, categorisation and performance measurements etc., is actually a pseudo-science.
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The great divide : ableism and technologies of disability production
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that disability is in fact created by and used to generate notions and epistemologies of 'ableism' and propose an ethic of affirmation, a desiring ontology of impairment.
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The other U.S. Border? Techno-cultural-rationalities and fortification in Southern Mexico:
TL;DR: In this paper, the concept of techno-cultural rationalities is proposed to understand how border security is enacted and "technified" along the historically porous boundary between Mexico and Guatemala.
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Staged Authenticity: arrangements of social space in tourist settings
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined accounts of travelers in terms of Erving Goffman's front versus back distinction and found that tourists try to enter back regions of the places they visit because these regions are associated with intimacy of relations and authenticity of experiences.
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Work, Self and Society: After Industrialism
TL;DR: Casey as discussed by the authors explored the effects of contemporary practices of work on the self and found that changes currently occuring in the world of work are part of the vast social and cultural changes that are challenging the meta trends of modern industrialism.
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What is critical urban theory
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors interpret critical urban theory with reference to four mutually interconnected elements: its theoretical character; its reflexivity; its critique of instrumental reason; and its emphasis on the disjuncture between the actual and the possible.
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Self-doubters, strugglers, storytellers, surfers and others: Images of self-identities in organization studies
TL;DR: The authors provide an overview of the key images of identity in organizations found in the research literature, including self-doubters, strugglers, surfers, storytellers, strategists, stencils and soldiers.