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Unbecoming Things

Hardcover • 2019 • 1. edition

Unbecoming Things

By Nicky Gregson, Mike Crang

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About the book

This book responds to moves to rematerialize the social sciences, to attend to the stuff of daily life but challenges the social sciences to think beyond objects as stable things. It forwards the argument that objects need to be seen not as stabilising things, or immutable mobiles - as time stilled and materials fixed and conserved in the object form - or even always in the making, as becoming but as unbecoming things. It argues that objects are better seen as things coming apart, as en route to...Show more

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ISBN

9780415506984

Publisher

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published year

2019

Language

Edition

1

Original title

Unbecoming Things

Format

Hardcover

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