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Mary Douglas's cultural theory of grid and group provides a framework for the description of three distinct cultural types corresponding to three logics for the legitimation of collectivity and collective coercion. Each type is distinguished by characteristic structures of classification, power, and moral order operating at the individual cognitive level. In this paper, the theory is used to illuminate some of the major developments in the structuring of business organizations in the late twentieth century, including the introduction of matrix, project and network organizations, the focus on de-layering, downsizing and outsourcing, and the emergence of concerns with cultural control, organizational learning, and core competence. The problems arising from these developments are discussed in terms of an unresolved conflict between the cognitive frameworks of two of Douglas's cultural types, market, and hierarchy.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I: CULTURAL BODIES -- 1 The Body in Culture: Before the Body Project -- Introduction -- Before the body project -- The body as symbol -- Non-verbal communication -- 2 The Body in Culture: The Body Project -- Introduction -- Bodies of difference -- Bodies of discourse -- Technologies of power -- 'Get undressed - but be slim, good-looking and tanned!' -- Transcending the body/mind dualism? -- 3 Ethnography Dances Back -- Introduction -- Varieties of ethnography -- Postmodernism and feminism: 'the awkward relation' -- The researcher as object -- Dance ethnography as a situated reflexive bodily practice -- PART II: DANCE, THE BODY AND CULTURAL THEORY -- 4 The Body in Dance -- Introduction -- 'The sensible and the intelligible' -- The celebration of the visual in ballet -- The sense of touch in contact improvisation -- Bodily sensing in ballet and contact improvisation -- Technical shifts and aesthetic transformations -- Water Study - then and now -- 5 Reconstructing the Dance: In Search of Authenticity? -- Introduction -- The real thing? -- Reconstruction in context -- Varieties of musical authenticity -- Dance as it was -- Dance as it is/dance as it was -- Dance as it is -- 'Performance museums' and lived traditions -- 6 Dance and Difference: Performing/Representing/ Rewriting the Body -- Introduction -- Exoticism, eroticism and auto-eroticism -- Representations of women in western theatrical dance -- Dance and body politics -- Dancing bodies/subjects-in-process -- Dance as a metaphor for 'writing the body' -- 7 Dancing the Night Away: Rave/Club Culture -- Introduction -- The 1950s dance hall experience and the 1990s club experience compared -- From acid house to rave culture -- Dance culture, youth culture and subculture -- From subcultures to club cultures -- Conclusion -- Notes.

Anthropocene, post-humanism, biopolitics. These terms are often used first in an academic context before being used outside the academic world, once their usefulness has become known to the wider public. Whether in official policy documents, in catalogues of expositions or in applications for subsidies, these terms tend to show up regularly.0In this book, 50 terms that are important in contemporary cultural theory are explained by experts in the field. They clarify what the term means, how it is used in different contexts and which discussions the term has triggered. Some of these terms refer to political issues (surveillance, political theology, multitude), gender and queer studies (post-feminism, heteronormativity, intersectionality), media theory (convergence, algorithm) or the art world (curating, participation, performance).0This book functions as a compendium of key terms in contemporary cultural theory

Posthuman theory asks in various ways what it means to be human in a time where philosophy has become suspicious of claims about human subjectivity. Those subjects who were historically considered aberrant and our future lives becoming increasingly hybrid show we have always been and are continuously transforming into posthumans. What are the ethical considerations of thinking the posthuman? Posthuman Ethics asks not what the posthuman is, but how posthuman theory creates new, imaginative ways of understanding relations between lives.

In this volume, Richard Ned Lebow introduces his own constructivist theory of political order and international relations based on theories of motives and identity formation drawn from the ancient Greeks. His theory stresses the human need for self-esteem, and shows how it influences political behavior at every level of social aggregation. Lebow develops ideal-type worlds associated with four motives: appetite, spirit, reason and fear, and demonstrates how each generates a different logic concerning cooperation, conflict and risk-taking. Expanding and documenting the utility of his theory in a series of historical case studies, ranging from classical Greece to the war in Iraq, he presents a novel explanation for the rise of the state and the causes of war, and offers a reformulation of prospect theory. This is a novel theory of politics by one of the world's leading scholars of international relations

In this tenth edition of his award-winning introduction, John Storey presents a clear and critical survey of competing theories of, and various approaches to, popular culture. Its breadth and theoretical unity, exemplified through popular culture, means that it can be flexibly and relevantly applied across a number of disciplines.

Cover Page -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Posthuman Ethics -- 2 The Great Ephemeral Tattooed Skin -- 3 Art: Inhuman Ecstasy -- 4 Animalities: Ethics and Absolute Abolition -- 5 The Wonder of Teras -- 6 Mystic Queer -- 7 Vitalistic Ethics: An End to Necrophilosophy -- Epilogue: After Life -- Bibliography -- Index.