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Author:   Marie L. Pellegrin-Rescia ,  Yair Levi
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.470kg
ISBN:  

9781138622838

ISBN 10:   1138622834
Pages:   254
Publication Date:   29 November 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Contents: Foreword; Preface: Marie L. Pellegrin-Rescia. Part I The Social as Metaphor, Marie L. Pellegrin-Rescia: Introduction to Part I: theoretical approach and historical overview: Section A, The theoretical approach; The thinking-talking human being and his categories of thought; The speaking-acting subject and the symbolic field of language; The speaking-acting individual and the imaginary of the Social Field; Section B, A historical overview; Interdependence and places of wandering: a history of places and bonds; Symbolic delimitation versus imaginary bonds; Anthropological debt versus imaginary work places; Readiness to lose versus imaginary places of production; Conclusion to Part I. Part II Cooperatives as Examples and their Paradoxes, Yair Levi. Introduction to Part II: cooperatives, categories of thought, embeddedness/disembeddedness; Images, myths and stereotypes; Section A, The official discourse; Origins and constituent elements; Section B, A critique of the official discourse; Tensions and inconsistencies; Interpreting the socio-economic duality; Paradoxes of cooperatives; The case studies; What have we learned from cooperatives?; Summary and conclusions. Epilogue: Beyond The Social as Metaphor, Marie L. Pellegrin-Rescia; Introduction to epilogue: going beyond the social: doing things with words according to the symbolic register; Thinking nestedness as a system of constituent rules; Thinking the political with the categories of the symbolic: the example of South Africa; The virtual more real than reality: The Città Aperta of Sicily; Conclusions, Marie L. Pellegrin-Rescia withYair Levi; References; Index.

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