Description: Further DetailsTitle: What Is an Event?Condition: NewEAN: 9780226439785ISBN: 9780226439785Publisher: University of Chicago PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 03/24/2017Item Height: 23mmItem Length: 16mmAuthor: Robin Wagner-PacificiLanguage: EnglishDescription: We live in a world of breaking news, where at almost any moment our everyday routine can be interrupted by a faraway event. Events are central to the way that individuals and societies experience life. Even life's inevitable moments birth, death, love, and war are almost always a surprise. Inspired by the cataclysmic events of September 11, Robin Wagner-Pacifici presents here a tour de force, an analysis of how events erupt and take off from the ground of ongoing, everyday life, and how they then move across time and landscape.What Is an Event? ranges across several disciplines, systematically analyzing the ways that events emerge, take shape, gain momentum, flow, and even get bogged down. As an exploration of how events are constructed out of ruptures, it provides a mechanism for understanding eventful forms and flows, from the micro-level of individual life events to the macro-level of historical revolutions, contemporary terrorist attacks, and financial crises.Wagner-Pacifici takes a close look at a number of cases, both real and imagined, through the reports, personal narratives, paintings, iconic images, political posters, sculptures, and novels they generate and through which they live on. What is ultimately at stake for individuals and societies in events, Wagner-Pacifici argues, are identities, loyalties, social relationships, and our very experiences of time and space. What Is an Event? provides a way for us all as social and political beings living through events, and as analysts reflecting upon them to better understand what is at stake in the formations and flows of the events that mark and shape our lives.Country/Region of Manufacture: USItem Width: 2mmItem Weight: 369gGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social SciencesRelease Year: 2017 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: What Is an Event?
Title: What Is an Event?
EAN: 9780226439785
ISBN: 9780226439785
Release Date: 03/24/2017
Release Year: 2017
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Social Sciences
Number of Pages: 240 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: What Is an Event?
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication Year: 2017
Item Height: 0.1 in
Subject: Social, Sociology / General, General, Anthropology / General
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 10.1 Oz
Item Length: 0.9 in
Subject Area: Philosophy, Social Science
Author: Robin Wagner-Pacifici
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
