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Making culture, changing society, Tony Bennett

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"Making Culture, Changing Society proposes a challenging new account of the relations between culture and society focused on how particular forms of cultural knowledge and expertise work on, order and transform society. Examining these forms of culture's action on the social as aspects of a historically distinctive ensemble of cultural institutions, it considers the diverse ways in which culture has been produced and mobilised as a resource for governing populations. These concerns are illustrated in detailed case studies of how anthropological conceptions of the relations between race and culture have shaped - and been shaped by - the relationships between museums, fieldwork and governmental programmes in early twentieth-century France and Australia. These are complemented by a closely argued account of the relations between aesthetics and governance that, in contrast to conventional approaches, interprets the historical emergence of the autonomy of the aesthetic as vastly expanding the range of art's social uses. In pursuing these concerns, particular attention is given to the role that the cultural disciplines have played in making up and distributing the freedoms through which modern forms of liberal government operate. An examination of the place that has been accorded habit as a route into the regulation of conduct within liberal social, cultural and political thought brings these questions into sharp focus. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of sociology, cultural studies, media studies, anthropology, museum and heritage studies, history, art history and cultural policy studies."--
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
xx, 220 pages
Contents
  • After culture?
  • Making culture, organising freedom, changing society
  • Civic laboratories: museums, cultural objecthood, and the governance of the
  • Making and mobilising worlds: assembling and governing the other
  • Collecting, instructing, governing: fields, publics, milieus
  • The uses of uselessness: aesthetics, freedom, government
  • Guided freedom: aesthetics, tutelage and the interpretation of art
  • Habit, instinct, survivals: repetition, history, biopower
  • Habitus/habit: freedom/history
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9780415688840
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Making culture, changing society
Title
Making culture, changing society
Statement of responsibility
Tony Bennett
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Subject
Language
eng
Summary
"Making Culture, Changing Society proposes a challenging new account of the relations between culture and society focused on how particular forms of cultural knowledge and expertise work on, order and transform society. Examining these forms of culture's action on the social as aspects of a historically distinctive ensemble of cultural institutions, it considers the diverse ways in which culture has been produced and mobilised as a resource for governing populations. These concerns are illustrated in detailed case studies of how anthropological conceptions of the relations between race and culture have shaped - and been shaped by - the relationships between museums, fieldwork and governmental programmes in early twentieth-century France and Australia. These are complemented by a closely argued account of the relations between aesthetics and governance that, in contrast to conventional approaches, interprets the historical emergence of the autonomy of the aesthetic as vastly expanding the range of art's social uses. In pursuing these concerns, particular attention is given to the role that the cultural disciplines have played in making up and distributing the freedoms through which modern forms of liberal government operate. An examination of the place that has been accorded habit as a route into the regulation of conduct within liberal social, cultural and political thought brings these questions into sharp focus. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of sociology, cultural studies, media studies, anthropology, museum and heritage studies, history, art history and cultural policy studies."--
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1947-
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Bennett, Tony
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
Series statement
Culture, economy and the social
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  • Culture
  • Social evolution
  • Social change
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Making culture, changing society, Tony Bennett
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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volume
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  • nc
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rdacarrier.
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text
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  • txt
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rdacontent.
Contents
After culture? -- Making culture, organising freedom, changing society -- Civic laboratories: museums, cultural objecthood, and the governance of the -- Making and mobilising worlds: assembling and governing the other -- Collecting, instructing, governing: fields, publics, milieus -- The uses of uselessness: aesthetics, freedom, government -- Guided freedom: aesthetics, tutelage and the interpretation of art -- Habit, instinct, survivals: repetition, history, biopower -- Habitus/habit: freedom/history
Control code
FIEb17320379
Dimensions
25 cm.
Extent
xx, 220 pages
Isbn
9780415688840
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia.
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)724642189
Label
Making culture, changing society, Tony Bennett
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier.
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent.
Contents
After culture? -- Making culture, organising freedom, changing society -- Civic laboratories: museums, cultural objecthood, and the governance of the -- Making and mobilising worlds: assembling and governing the other -- Collecting, instructing, governing: fields, publics, milieus -- The uses of uselessness: aesthetics, freedom, government -- Guided freedom: aesthetics, tutelage and the interpretation of art -- Habit, instinct, survivals: repetition, history, biopower -- Habitus/habit: freedom/history
Control code
FIEb17320379
Dimensions
25 cm.
Extent
xx, 220 pages
Isbn
9780415688840
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia.
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)724642189

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