Monthly Archives: June 2016

Invitation to session with De Swaan, ISA Vienna

Dear Colleagues,   During this ISA Forum of Sociology we are very pleased to invite you to an   Encounter with Abram des Swaan on his sociological monograph:   “The Killing Compartments. The Mentality of Mass Murder” (Yale, 2015).   … Continue reading

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History of urbanisation

Ryan Powell recommends this “impressive visualisation of the history of urbanisation” as of interest to figurationists: http://metrocosm.com/map-history-cities.html

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Figurations Newsletter is going digital

Future issues of the Figurations newsletter will no longer be printed in hard copy and posted to subscribers. The Board of the Norbert Elias Foundation was reluctant to abandon printing, but in the end financial considerations won out: the cost will … Continue reading

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