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Selves, Bodies and the Grammar of Social Worlds: Reimagining Social Change

By Jodie Clark (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
2016
ISBN
978-1-137-59842-4, 978-1-137-59843-1
DOI
10.1057/978-1-137-59843-1
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2969117 bytes)
Series
Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse
Edition
1
Pages
XVI, 142\153
Time added
2016-11-20 09:00:00
Development and Social Change

Description

This book is an invitation to researchers who are committed to social change to look for ideas about transformation in an unexpected place – that is, in the data generated from empirical research. Informed by Critical Discourse Analysis and postmodern theory, it proposes a method of locating, through close grammatical analysis of everyday descriptions of the social world, the desire for alternative transformative structures. Drawing upon insightful analysis of conversational data collected over a period of 12 years from both ‘marginalised’ and ‘mainstream’ participants, it reveals innovative ways of imagining social structure. Clark proposes a view of the social world as in an embodied relationship with embodied selves.

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