Chapter 1. Introduction: A Legitimation Crisis of the Capitalist Market Economy?; Steffen Schneider and Henning Schmidtke -- Part I -- Chapter 2. The Legitimacy of the Capitalist Market Economy and Its Normative Foundations; Frank Nullmeier and Dominika Biegoń -- Chapter 3. Towards a Legitimation Crisis? Contours and Trajectories of National Discourses; Henning Schmidtke and Steffen Schneider …
Introduction: Moving pictures -- 1. A contested identity: genesis of the Eurocrat figure: between stigma and affirmation of a differentiated supranational body -- 2. The making of a status group: Reconsidering socialization to the European Institutions -- 3. Genesis and structure of European bureaucratic capital: Senior European Commission officials -- 4. Soft skills versus expertise and know…
1 Introduction -- 2. Background: Encyclopaedias and the digital revolution -- 3. Wikipedia -- 4.The outside of cognitive capitalism understood through ideology analysis -- 5. Wikipedians’ views on their activities.-6. Complement or alternative to the commons’ outside? -- 7. The ideological formations take shape.This book relates Wikipedians’ conceptions of their activities in terms of pla…
I. Introduction -- II. Policy Paradoxes: Challenges Confronting the Contemporary Arctic -- III. The Arctic Council in Transition -- IV. Chairs and International Organizations: The Case of the Arctic Council -- V. The Swedish Chairmanship: Foresight and Hindsight in Arctic Activism -- VI. The Canadian Chairmanship: Development or Bust -- VII. The U.S. Chairmanship of the Arctic Council: Round Tw…
Introduction: Networked Governance: Taking Networks Seriously -- Part I: Networked Governance: General Issues -- Part II: Types, Processes and Limits of Networked Governance -- Part III: Investigating Networked Governance: Methodological Approaches -- Part IV: Conclusions.This edited volume seeks to explore established as well as emergent forms of governance by combining social network analysis…
1. Introduction -- Part I: The Development of the Sociology of Consumption -- 2. Sociology and Consumption -- 3. The Development of the Sociology of Consumption -- Part II: Consumption and Practice -- 4. Consumption as Appropriation: On the use of ‘Consumption’ and Consumption as Use -- 5. Consumption and Theories of Practice -- Part III: Consumption, Taste and Power -- 6. Practice and Fiel…
Foreword; John Solomos; Chapter 1. Asylum Screening from Within -- Chapter 2. Asylum Seeking and the Threatened State -- Chapter 3. Subcultures of Social Control -- Chapter 4. Trained to Spot the Truth -- Chapter 5. Deconstructing asylum seekers’ narratives -- Chapter 6. A Subculture of Disbelief -- Chapter 7. Pulling Back the Screen.This ethnographic book enhances our understanding of asylum…
This book studies the variety of organizational strategies selected to cope with critical uncertainties during crises. This research formulates and applies an institutional sense-making model to explain the selection of strategies for coping with uncertainties during crises to answer the question why some organizations select a rule-based strategy to cope with uncertainties, whereas others purs…
ReThinking Management and Cultural Turns -- Culture and Creativity -- Applications and Activities. .This book assembles multi-disciplinary contributions to delve deeper into ReThinking Management. The first part provides some foundational considerations and inspirations. Further chapters offer more specific links to the arts and creativity sectors as well as empirical research and case reflecti…
Chapter 1. Introduction; Michael Jonas, Beate Littig and Angela Wroblewski -- Part I. Methodologies and Methodological Aspects of Practice Theories -- Chapter 2. Sociology of Social Practices: Theory or Modus Operandi of Empirical Research; Robert Schmidt.– Chapter 3. Practice Theory as a Package of Theory, Methods and Vocabulary: Affordances and Limitations; Davide Nicolini -- Chapter 4. Rel…