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The 'social' as metaphor and the case of cooperatives : a critique of economic individualism
- Title
- The 'social' as metaphor and the case of cooperatives : a critique of economic individualism / Marie L. Pellegrin-Rescia and Yair Levi.
- Author
- Pellegrin-Rescia, Marie L.
- Publication
- Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2005], ©2005.
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- Additional Authors
- Levi, Yair.
- Description
- xvii, 235 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [216]-230) and index.
- Contents
- The thinking-talking human being and his categories of thought -- The speaking-acting subject and the symbolic register -- The speaking-acting individual and the imaginary of the social field -- Interdependence and places of wandering : a history of places and bonds -- Symbolic delimitation versus imaginary bonds -- Anthropological debt versus imaginary work places -- Readiness to lose versus imaginary places of production -- Conclusion -- Images, myths and stereotypes -- Origins and constituent elements -- Tensions and inconsistencies -- Interpreting the socio-economic duality -- Paradoxes of cooperatives -- The case studies -- What have we learned from cooperatives? -- Summary and conclusions -- Thinking 'nestedness' as a system of constituent rules -- Thinking the political with the categories of the symbolic : the example of South Africa -- Thinking the virtual more real than reality : the Città Aperta of Sicily -- Conclusions.
- ISBN
- 1840144890 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2005011783
- OCLC
- OCM60349140
- SCSB-8871434
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries