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Braudel on history and the limits of potential social change

via Kaptest Braudel conceived of history as the dynamic interaction of three temporalities. The first of these, the evenementielle, involved short-lived dramatic “events,” such as battles, revolutions,...

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Logics of History: Social Theory and Social Transformation (review)

By Daniel Little via Project MUSE (and Savage Minds) Journal of Social History, Volume 41, Number 1, Fall 2007 pp. 181-182 | 10.1353/jsh.2007.0140 Logics of History is a fascinating and insightful book...

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The temporalities of labour history

Notes from the Chapter 9 section “The Temporalities of Labor History”, Sewell WH, Jr (2005) Logics of History: Social theory and social transformation. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. p. 273...

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What if Margaret Thatcher had never been?

via BBC News Privatisation, finance boom, manufacturing decline, home ownership, union laws. The UK changed hugely in the 1980s. But how much of that would have happened if Margaret Thatcher had never...

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When “culture” erases history

by Ryan on April 17, 2013. This post originally appeared on the blog Savage Minds and is reposted under CC-BY-NC. Sure, sometimes “culture” can tell us a lot about human behavior and differences.  But...

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Schatzki on change, practice theory and large sociotechnical phenomena

Excerpt from “Where the Action Is (On Large Social Phenomena Such as Sociotechnical Regimes)” by  Ted Schatzki, November 2011, Working Paper 1, Sustainable Practices Research Group. Now, an important...

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Human character changed in 1995

By Rebecca Solnit (original title: In the Day of the Postman) London Review of Books In or around June 1995 human character changed again. Or rather, it began to undergo a metamorphosis that is still...

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Bourdieu as a theorist of change

H-France Review Vol. 13 (September 2013), No. 149 Philip S. Gorski, ed., Bourdieu and Historical Analysis. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2013. vii + 422 pp. Tables, figures, appendices,...

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