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In this book, Natàlia Cantó Milà elaborates on Georg Simmel's relational approach to a theory of value, pointing at the heuristic possibilities that this approach offers to modern sociology and to a sociology of modernity. She does so by focusing on the theory of value Simmel developed in his »The Philosophy of Money«, delivering an alternative reading of this book that views its theory of value as its main axial point. Simmel's theory of value is depicted by Cantó Milà as including an intrinsically sociological aspect, since economic as well as moral, ethic and aesthetic values are conceived as resulting from human relations

Auf der Grundlage von Simmels Soziologie des Raumes werden Probleme der spanischen EU-Außengrenze diskutiert. Die Widersprüchlichkeit verschiedener Interessen führt zu Paradoxien in der Grenzpolitik. Als Mitglied der EU hat Spanien einerseits ein Interesse daran, die EU-Außengrenzen zu sichern, da Spaniens Rolle und Einfluss in der EU stark von der Erfüllung dieser Aufgabe abhängt. Andererseits haben viele Spanier ein Interesse an sehr billigen Arbeitskräften, z.B. in der Landwirtschaft, im Bauwesen oder im privaten Dienstleistungsbereich. Diese Interessenkonstellation führt dazu, dass die spanische EU-Außengrenze gegen illegale Immigranten abgeschottet wird. Gleichzeitig werden aber diejenigen, die die Grenze erfolgreich überwunden haben, mit einiger Wahrscheinlichkeit nicht ausgewiesen. (GB)

This article introduces a relational approach to studying imaginaries of the future, emphasising their significance in comprehending present realities and the ongoing processes that interweave our social fabric. It posits 'imaginaries of the future' as a pivotal sociological concept for understanding the reciprocal social influences and uneven structural dynamics shaping the present. This work engages in a theoretical discourse, spotlighting the role of the future in contemporary social landscapes, while endorsing the suitability of the concept of imaginaries to elucidate how we collectively interlace our present through implicit dialogues with latent, emergent futures and glimpses of radical imagination. In this article, we advocate for sociological research on 'imaginaries', discussing the concept's relevance to sociological theory and research. In addition, we make a case for examining futures as a subject of sociological research. Finally, we propose a conceptual framework for analysing imaginaries of the future from a relational sociological perspective, fostering interdisciplinary dialogue.

This article sheds light on the experience which we share in the one and a half hours which we spend in the cinema. It discusses the experiences that are framed between the opening and the closing of the curtain that covers the screen. Thereby it reflects on the reasons for the success and importance of the cinema in modern and especially late modern society, on its meaning for us as individuals and for the webbing of our social bonds. By discussing texts of Simmel, Turner, Sennett and Benjamin, and relating them with each other, we have tried to analyse critically the changes that might have happened to actors and audiences when the stage became a screen, and the actor part of an imaged story. As a result we have identified the cinematic experience as a new kind of ritual that fits with the needs and conditions of late modern society, a ritual wherein emotions play the central role.

The objective of this article is to analyse the social relationships within online communities of anorectics, their bonds, their emotions and friendships, and their subsequent relation to anorexia nervosa. The research has focused on their blogs and their forums, which create a space in which they share their experiences, and sometimes encourage each other not to give up on their eating disorder – which they view as an illness, but an illness that has become their lifestyle, and their attitude towards life. Within the article an analysis of the special bonds of friendship that tie the members of the online community together will be presented. Special attention will be paid to the similarities between secret societies and friendship bonds within pro-ana communities.

This article analyses the first seasons of two interconnected AMC series, 'The Walking Dead' and 'Fear the Walking Dead'. Our analysis focuses on how these shows frame the emergence of a bio-risk, how the leading characters deal with the experience of bio-risks, and how they develop (or fail at developing) strategies to overcome, or, if this renders impossible, to tame such bio-risk. We have used a Grounded Theory approach to analyse the data, frame our analysis, and create a theoretical understanding of the ways these shows present bio-risks, and of the ways they depict the fictional experience of living a bio-emergency, without any official, institutional plan regarding to how to deal with it.

This article focuses on the fundamental role that emotion memories play in constructing autobiographical narrations. It suggests that the analysis of emotion memories can provide a deep insight into a variety of processes and fields of individual and social life (Cavarero, 2000). Based on the analysis of emotion memories in life-story interviews, this article will show the deep-rooted interrelatedness between the self and its social environment with emotion memories as an influential element. This article aims to show that strong emotional experiences mould the interviewees' narrations because they penetrate and shape the remembered past and anticipated future by enhancing, suppressing and hence shaping past and future experiences. If turned into emotion memories, these experiences allow the channelling, taming and/or evoking of emotions. This practice relates different memories and life-story moments with each other and puts them into a new context. This article claims that emotion memories have therefore a crucial structuring effect for autobiographical narrations and are therefore also a valuable element of analysis of interviews. We claim that emotion memories become visible and therefore analysable as emotional expressions or emotives, as emotion performances intentionally performed or accidentally caused (Austin, 1975; Reddy, 2001).

Este artículo, fruto de una investigación sobre los "Imaginarios de futuro de los jóvenes", se centra en los futuros que los jóvenes no desean tener que vivir. El objetivo del presente texto es, por tanto, un análisis de los futuros (explícitamente) no deseados. Para realizar esta investigación y elaborar un mapa relacional de los futuros no deseados de los jóvenes entre 15 y 18 años, hemos trabajado colaborativamente con tres centros de enseñanza pública secundaria de la provincia de Barcelona (uno de ellos en la misma Barcelona capital y dos en poblaciones de entre 6000 y 10000 habitantes). En este artículo nos centramos en las respuestas de los jóvenes a la pregunta, vehiculada en el aula por sus propios profesores, sobre qué no les gustaría que (les) pasase en el futuro. Estas respuestas se han recogido de forma anonimizada y codificado en Atlas.ti, siguiendo las tres fases de codificación especificadas por Strauss y Corbin (1997). Finalmente, hemos trazado relacionalmente un mapa de futuros no deseados que nos servirá de guía y base para el análisis en el que diferenciamos los imaginarios individuales de fracaso de los imaginarios colectivos de pérdida.

This article focuses on the analysis of daydreams and fantasies people have regarding their partnerships in 'non-moments', moments in which we have time to take a break or to daydream. This article makes a strong case for the relevance of the shift from the isolation experienced within these 'non-moments' towards an altered experience of this isolation, which has been moulded and partially broken by the possibility to share our dreams in real time, and communicate with our significant others (here, partners), while tearing us further apart from those who share with us these moments in the same place. The analysis of such non-moments will help us to shed light on how our intimate relationships are woven on a daily basis, and how electronic communication is part of a differentiation process in which we can share our imaginaries just as we produce them.