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Scale: Discourse and Dimensions of Social Life
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Scale: Discourse and Dimensions of Social Life
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E. Summerson Carr
2016
Published by:
University of California Press
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Wherever we turn, we see diverse things scaled for us, from cities to economies, from history to love. We know scale by many names and through many familiar antinomies:
local
and
global,
micro
and
macro
events
to name a few. Even the most critical among us often proceed with our analysis as if such scales were the ready-made platforms of social life, rather than asking how, why, and to what effect are scalar distinctions forged in the first place.
How
do
scalar distinctions help actors and analysts alike make sense of and navigate their social worlds? What do these distinctions reveal and what do they conceal? How are scales construed and what effects do they have on the way those who abide by them think and act? This pathbreaking volume attends to the practical labor of scale-making and the communicative practices this labor requires. From an ethnographic perspective, the authors demonstrate that scale is practice and process before it becomes product, whether in the work of projecting the commons, claiming access to the big picture, or scaling the seriousness of a crime.
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Introduction: Pragmatics of Scale
PART ONE. SCALAR PROJECTS: PROMISES AND PRECARITIES
Projecting Presence: Aura and Oratory in William Jennings Bryans Presidential Races
pp. 25-51
Interaction Rescaled: How Buddhist Debate Became a Diasporic Pedagogy
pp. 52-69
Shrinking Indigenous Language in the Yukon
pp. 70-88
PART TWO. INTERSCALARITY: IMAGINATION AND INSTITUTION
Scale-Making: Comparison and Perspective as Ideological Projects
pp. 91-111
Balancing the Scales of Justice in Tonga
pp. 112-132
Interscaling Awe, De-escalating Disaster
pp. 133-156
PART THREE. PREDATORY SCALES: ENCOMPASSMENT AND EVALUATION
Scaling Red and the Horror of Trademark
pp. 159-184
Semiotic Vinification and the Scaling of Taste
pp. 185-212
Going Upscale: Scales and Scale-Climbing as Ideological Projects
pp. 213-231
Acknowledgments
pp. 233
References Cited
pp. 235-250
Contributors
pp. 251-253
Index
pp. 255-261
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ISBN
9780520965430
Related ISBN(s)
9780520291799
DOI
10.1353/book.63410
MARC Record
OCLC
1088381192
Pages
276
Launched on MUSE
2019-02-26
Language
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY
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