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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: 'Voices in my head':Thinking critically as dialogic practice; Voices in my head; Thinking critically, but not alone; Thinking critically: with and against; Dialogic selves: thinking subjects; Introducing the voices; The missing voices; Listening to voices; or, how to use this book; 1 Tania Murray Li; A collaborative-working puzzle; Making concepts work; Questions of conservative rule; The problem of work; 2 Larry Grossberg; Talking through differences; Taking positions provisionally |
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The pains and pleasures of collaborationLooking for the popular; 3 Wendy Brown; Talking theory; The seductions of theory; Between theory and politics; A moment of ambivalence; 4 Anu (Aradhana) Sharma; Thinking with multiple resources; Subjects behaving badly; What is an NGO?; Having troubling thoughts; 5 Jeff Maskovsky; Paradoxes of popular politics; On political trajectories; Politics, certainty and ambivalence; 6 Paul Stubbs; Being dragged out of place; Who studies policy?; Making up things -- and places; The work of agency; The threat of being found out; 7 Allan Cochrane |
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The Open University as a space for critical thinkingOpening up possibilities; Disciplines and interdisciplinary thinking; 8 Fiona Williams; Coming to terms with social policy; Resistances and refusals; On contradictions and complexity; Back to social policy; 9 Davina Cooper; In a world of disciplines?; Thinking beyond boundaries; The consequences of talking to people; Emerging projects and emerging identities; 10 Gail Lewis; Thinking with others; Between certainty and uncertainty; Thinking with and through race; Dimensions and dynamics of crisis; Imagining other connections; 11 Wendy Larner |
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Conversations within and beyond disciplinesChanging institutions; Unorthodox formations; On discourse as the practice of articulation; 12 Janet Newman; On collaboration; The pessimism of critique; The Marxism and feminism thing; Looking for the current moment; Between collaborative and dialogic processes; Afterword; Keywords; References; Index |
| Summary |
In this engaging and original book, John Clarke is in conversation with twelve leading individual scholars about the dynamics of critical thinking in the social sciences, and he reflects on the necessity of thinking collaboratively and dialogically |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 1, 2019) |
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Social sciences -- Philosophy.
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Critical theory.
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Electronic books.
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critical theories (dialectical critiques)
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e-books.
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critical theory (sociological concept)
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
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Critical theory
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Social sciences -- Philosophy
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Brown, Wendy, 1955- author.
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Cochrane, Allen, author
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Cooper, Davina, author.
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Grossberg, Larry, author
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Larner, Wendy, author.
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Lewis, Gail, 1970- author.
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Li, Tania, 1959- author.
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Maskovsky, Jeff, author.
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Newman, Janet, 1945- author.
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Sharma, Aradhana, author.
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Stubbs, Paul, 1959- author.
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Williams, Fiona, 1956- author.
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| ISBN |
9781447350996 |
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1447350995 |
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9781447351009 |
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1447351002 |
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9781447351016 |
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1447351010 |
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