Scale: Discourse and Dimensions of Social LifeE. Summerson Carr, Michael Lempert A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program for monographs. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Wherever we turn, we see diverse things scaled for us, from cities to economies, from history to love. We know scale by many names and through many familiar antinomies: local and global,micro and macroevents to name a few. Even the most critical among us often proceed with our analysis as if such scales were the ready-made platforms of social life, rather than asking how, why, and to what effect are scalar distinctions forged in the first place. How do scalar distinctions help actors and analysts alike make sense of and navigate their social worlds? What do these distinctions reveal and what do they conceal? How are scales construed and what effects do they have on the way those who abide by them think and act? This pathbreaking volume attends to the practical labor of scale-making and the communicative practices this labor requires. From an ethnographic perspective, the authors demonstrate that scale is practice and process before it becomes product, whether in the work of projecting the commons, claiming access to the big picture, or scaling the seriousness of a crime. |
Contents
Aura and Oratory in William Jennings | 25 |
How Buddhist Debate Became | 52 |
Shrinking Indigenous Language in the Yukon | 70 |
Comparison and Perspective | 91 |
Balancing the Scales of Justice in Tonga | 112 |
Interscaling Awe Deescalating Disaster | 133 |
Scaling Red and the Horror of Trademark | 159 |
Semiotic Vinification and the Scaling of Taste | 185 |
Scales and ScaleClimbing as Ideological Projects | 213 |
Acknowledgments | 233 |
Contributors | 251 |
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