Societies under Construction Geographies, Sociologies and Histories of Building
This edited collection explores building construction as an inspiring, yet often overlooked, place to develop new knowledge about the development of human societies. Eschewing dominant engineering and management perspectives on construction, the book is purposefully broad in its scope, both empirica...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2018, 2018
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2018 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1 Introduction: societies under construction; Daniel Sage and Chloé Vitry
- 2 “This building is never complete”: studying adaptations of a library building over time; Hiral Patel and Dylan Tutt
- 3 Constructing work: politics, society, and architectural history on the Paris building site; Jacob Paskins
- 4 Liberating the semantics: embodied work(man)ship in construction; Rikard Sandberg, Christine Räisänen, Martin Löwstedt and Ani Raiden
- 5 Change and continuity: what can construction tell us about institutional theory?; Paul Chan
- 6 Building home futures: materialities of construction and meanings of home in self-help building practices; Monika Grubbauer
- 7 From relational to regressive place-making: developing an ANT theory of place with house building; Daniel Sage and Chloé Vitry
- 8 Organizing space and time through relational human-animal boundary work: exclusion, invitation and disturbance; Daniel Sage, Lise Justesen, Andrew Dainty, Kjell Tryggestad and Jan Mouritsen