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Part One. The Maternal ≠ {Mother + Child}: Relational Ontology and the Mattering of Black Lives (Planetary Pasts)
This chapter explores how anti-Black racism and capitalism, on the one hand, and the mattering of Black lives, on the other, might be theorized as...
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Part Two. The Maternal ≠ {Mother + Child}: Relational Ontology and the Mattering of Black Lives (Planetary Futures)
This chapter proposes that the 25 million slaves exported from subSaharan Africa and trafficked in and across the Atlantic brought with them a...
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Relational Spaces of Digital Labor
The distinction between everyday life and work is gradually diminishing, as productive capacities are increasingly hard-coded into quotidian...
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The Grounds of Relational Explanation
This chapter focuses on explanation as a goal within relational sociology. What characterizes the explanatory commitments of relational sociology?...
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Relational Understanding: Beyond the Interpretative and Normative Divide
The problems of understanding and meaning are strongly intertwined with building sociological theory from its classic beginnings. A key question...
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Power: Relational, Discursive, and Performative Dimensions
This chapter draws on the conceptual link between power and causality to develop an account of the relational, discursive, and performative...
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Bourdieu: From Epistemology to Ontology
Chapter 1 introduces Bourdieu’s oeuvre, highlighting the substantial work that the concepts of habitus and...
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Relational Ethics of Accountability
Foregrounding the relationality of gang space, Curran directs attention away from gangs as the source or cause of these territories and their...
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Critical Realism: Ontology in an Era of Ontological Scepticism
This chapter outlines critical realism as an approach to the social sciences. The chapter begins by setting out the principles of critical realism,...
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Becoming Through Story: The Relational Processes of Writing and Creating the StOries Project
This final chapter is not a typical recapitulation of the stories and ideas presented in this anthology. Rather it is a storied approach to...
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Florian Znaniecki’s Methodology for the Relational Paradigm: The Application of Analytic Induction to Nationalism Studies
The primary goal of this chapter is to reconstruct Florian Znaniecki’s methodological contribution, which is considered an early, pioneering, and...
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The Scientific Community in the Perspective of Relational Sociology
While sociologists of science initially tended to emphasize the set of norms constitutive of scientific communities and patterns of the circulation...
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The Methodology of Critical Realist Relational Analysis: The Research Design and Its Underlying Rules
Relational sociology has not yet expressed a complete methodology for making its analysis effectively relational. Furthermore, it remains very...
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From Categorical Distinctions of Policy Problems to a Relational Approach to Wicked Problems
In this chapter, we outline the difference between substantialist and relational understanding of social processes, by utilizing the distinction...
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Normative Reciprocity, Relational Sociology, and the Critique of Forms of Social Life
In the frame of sociological studies of the last thirty years, Relational Sociology (RS) represents not only an ontological, epistemological, and...
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The Methodological Rules of the Critical Realist Relational Sociology: Some Examples
After a brief introduction on the ontological and epistemological choices that underpin Pierpaolo Donati’s approach to relational sociology, the...
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From Governance Failure to Failure Governance: A Relational Approach to Governing Wicked Problems
In this chapter we outline the form of governance that, we argue, should be the preferred form of governing wicked problems: the trans-active...
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Intelligent Communities—Towards a New Ontology of Practice
Cities are becoming an integral part of the human condition on a global scale. They hold the capacity to transform human life with increasing...
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Peace Education and Memory Pedagogies: A Relational Perspective
The work on memory pedagogies and recent history is increasingly gaining more visibility and relevance in peace education. An example of this work is...