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Inter-woven by theoretical and methodological considerations, this book is a study of live methods, including experimentation, attentiveness, collaboration, multi-media platforms, public sociology, the game of social life and research, idiotic methods, scavenging, mapping and topologies.

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A study of live methods including experimentation, attentiveness, collaboration, multi-media platforms, public sociology, the game of social life and research, idiotic methods, scavenging, mapping and topologies

Global in scope and inter-woven by theoretical and methodological considerations

Chapters emerge from the Methods Lab at Goldsmiths University which is committed to developing inventive ways of doing sociology

Studies the practice of sociological imagination and the aim is to make social research responsive to social life - to bring it alive

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Series editor´s introduction (Chris Shilling)

A manifesto for live methods: provocations and capacities (Les Back and Nirmal Puwar)

ART

Live sociology: social research and its futures (Les Back)

Curating sociology (Nirmal Puwar and Sanjay Sharma)

Seeing it whole: staging totality in social theory and art (Alberto Toscano)

STORYING

Once upon a problem (Mariam Motamedi Fraser)

Learning to be affected: social suffering and total pain at life´s borders (Yasmin Gunaratnam)

DIGITAL

Being stuck in (live) time: the sticky sociological imagination (Emma Uprichard)

The redistribution of methods: on intervention in digital social research, broadly conceived (Noorjte Marres)

DESIGNS

De-signing the object of sociology: toward an ´idiotic´ methodology (Mike Michael)

Going live: towards an amphibious sociology (Celia Lury)

Notes on contributors

Index

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Les Back is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.

Nirmal Puwar is Senior Lecturer is Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.

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