Overview
Explores the previously under-examined topic of construction activities and their effect on human histories, geographies and sociologies
Offers a cross-disciplinary approach from a broad range of fields within the social sciences and humanities
Develops construction management research beyond the purely practical
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
Keywords
- Human Geography
- Urban Sociology
- Urban Studies
- Housing
- architectural history
- institutional theory
- institutional theory
- institutional change with building ruins
- spatiotemporal organization
- Mexican self-help housing
- socio-materiality
- suburban housing development
- Parisian postwar construction boom and migrant labour
- construction and gender
- women in construction
- construction studies
- architectural studies
About this book
This book seeks to develop a new critical sub-area for construction studies that focuses on the actual processes and practices of ‘constructing'. Bringing together diverse members of construction research communities working in a variety of contexts, it develops empirical engagements with building work to challenge its marginalization, relative to architectural studies, to provoke novel understandings of human history, geography and sociology.
Reviews
“This book constitutes a vital intervention into interdisciplinary scholarship about construction. It offers an impassioned plea to theorise with construction, given that building work has often been marginalised, overlooked, silenced or under-valued in academic research. Bringing together theoretical traditions from sociology, history and human geography, and case studies ranging from an interrogation of gender norms in the Swedish construction industry to self-build housing in Mexico City, this book will be of interest to a diverse range of scholars and practitioners working on or in construction. The book also offers an excellent set of analyses of the ways in which construction work frames and articulates key, pressing contemporary issues - from climate change to rapid urban growth.” (Professor Peter Kraftl, Chair in Human Geography & Director of Internationalisation, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK, and Honorary Professor, School of Education, RMIT, Australia)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Chloé Vitry is Research Associate in the School of Business and Economics at Loughborough University.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Societies under Construction
Book Subtitle: Geographies, Sociologies and Histories of Building
Editors: Daniel J. Sage, Chloé Vitry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73996-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-73995-3Published: 12 June 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08898-9Published: 05 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-73996-0Published: 24 May 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 267
Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations
Topics: Urban Studies/Sociology, Human Geography, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Sociology of Culture, Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology