Selves, Bodies and the Grammar of Social Worlds
Reimagining Social Change
Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Sociology, Reference & Language, Reference
| Author: | Jodie Clark | ISBN: | 9781137598431 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan UK | Publication: | July 13, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan | Language: | English |
| Author: | Jodie Clark |
| ISBN: | 9781137598431 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan UK |
| Publication: | July 13, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
