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864575
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Societies under construction : : geographies, sociologies and histories of building /\ Daniel J. Sage, Chloé Vitry, editors.
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Cham, Switzerland :: Palgrave Macmillan,, [2018]
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1 online resource
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3319739964
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: 9783319739960
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9783319739953
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Editors and Contributors; List of Figures; 1 Introduction: Societies under Construction; The Formation of Construction as an Object of Knowledge; The 'Social Turn' in Construction Management; Construction Research Within the Social Sciences and Humanities; Summary Discussion; Summary of Chapters; References; 2 'This Building Is Never Complete': Studying Adaptations of a Library Building Over Time; A Building Is Not a Fixed Object; Studying Buildings Over Time: Key Research Concerns; A Methodology for the Study of Building Adaptations
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Contested Bodies in ConstructionResearch Design; Introducing Mona: Multiple Embodied Enactments; The Coping and Reactive Body: Problem-Solver and 'Firefighter'; The Omnipresent Body: Everywhere at the Same Time; The Absent Body: The Downside of Presence; The Autonomous Body: Elusive Freedom; Deviating Body: Where Women Dare to Tread; Closing Remarks; References; 5 Change and Continuity: What Can Construction Tell Us About Institutional Theory?; Introduction; Using Institutional Theory to Study Practices in the Construction Industry
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Enacting the Library: Praxiographic Inquiry and the Politics of Empirical WorkThe Library Multiple-Over Time; Building an Exhibition; Exhibiting the Library in the Library; Refurbished Tables: Outliving Bricks and Mortar; Conclusion; References; 3 Constructing Work: Politics, Society and Architectural History on the Paris Building Site; A Booming Industry; The Human Aspects of Construction; Workers' Unions and the Politics of Construction; Architecture, Cities and Construction Work; References; 4 Liberating the Semantics: Embodied Work(Man)ship in Construction; Introduction
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Institutional Theory as Counterpoint to Formal, Rational Economic ModelsInstitutional Theory as a Way to Examine Variations; Institutional Theory, Legitimacy and Change; Institutional Logics in Construction; Putting Institutional Theory to Work; (Re- )Thinking Change Through an Institutional Lens: Possibilities Afforded by the Construction Industry; Change Management and Institutional Theory; Possibilities Afforded by the Construction Industry in Examining Institutional Change; Towards More Processual Accounts of Institutional Change; Towards More Inclusive Accounts of Institutional Change
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Towards More Productive Accounts of Demise in Institutional ChangeConcluding Remarks; References; 6 Building Home Futures: Materialities of Construction and Meanings of Home in Self-help Building Practices; Introduction; Self-help Construction as Subject of Social Science Investigations; Informal Settlements and Shifting Housing Policy Priorities in Mexico; Materialities of Construction and Meanings of Home; Conclusions; References; 7 From Relational to Regressive Place-Making: Developing an ANT Theory of Place with Housebuilding; The Place of Place in Actor-Network Theory
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| Abstract
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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 empirically and theoretically, as reflecting the rich underexplored potential of studies of building construction to inform a wide span of intellectual debates across the social science and humanities. The seven chapters encompass contributions to theories of: spatiotemporal organization with wildlife on building sites; institutional change with building ruins; home with Mexican self-help housing; place with a suburban housing development; socio-materiality with the adaptation of a university library; migrant labour with the Parisian postwar construction boom; and gender with a female site manager in Sweden. This book seeks to develop a new critical sub-area for construction studies that focuses on the actual processes and practices of 'constructing'. Bringing together diverse members of construction research communities working in a variety of contexts, it develops empirical engagements with building work to challenge its marginalization, relative to architectural studies, to provoke novel understandings of human history, geography and sociology.--
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Architecture and society.
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Building-- Social aspects.
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Buildings-- Social aspects.
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Human geography.
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Architecture and society.
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Building-- Social aspects.
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Human geography.
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TECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING-- Construction-- General.
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| Dewey Classification
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690
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690.01
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TH153.S63 2018
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Sage, Daniel J.
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Vitry, Chloé
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