More-than-Human Sociology: A New Sociological Imagination

Pyyhtinen, Olli

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“…Moving beyond these entrenched biology-culture, structure-agency impasses involves exploring the entanglement of biopsychosocial forces that shape the gendered phenomenon of depression and recovery as it is researched, managed and experienced. In this way we springboard from the growing momentum supporting different ways of thinking 'with' biosocial ontologies to deepen our sociological engagement with vital, more-than-human questions about health, wellbeing and social justice (Fitzgerald, Rose, & Singh, 2015;Fox & Alldred, 2016;Pickersgill, 2013;Puig de la Bellacasa, 2017;Pyyhtinen, 2016).…”

Section: Reconfiguring the Bio-psycho-social Modelmentioning

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Feminism and a Vital Politics of Depression and Recovery

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O’Brien

Pavlidis

2019

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Feminism and a Vital Politics of Depression and Recovery

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Pavlidis

2019

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“…The article owes a certain amount to my recent book More‐than‐Human Sociology (Pyyhtinen ), but the material has been revised and restructured.…”

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Matters of Scale: Sociology in and for a Complex World

Pyyhtinen

2017

Canadian Review of Sociology

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The article proposes that if sociology is to make sense of a world that is ever more complex and complicated, it is important to reconsider the scale(s) of our relations and actions. Instead of assuming a nested vertical hierarchy of the micro to macro binary, scale should be treated not only as multiple, but also as something produced and sustained in practice. Coming to grips with the complex world, we are living in also necessitates attending to the conduits and connections between various sites, fields, and terrains to which our lives are entangled. The article concludes with a note on the marginalization of sociology from public discussions, and it argues that it is possibly by attending to ambiguity and to the unfinished making of our contemporary world that sociology might have the most to give to discussions about the economy, about the future of humanity, and how to organize society. Cet article suggère que si la sociologie doit nous éclairer sur le sens d'un monde de plus en plus complexe, il est important de revoir l'échelle de nos relations et actions. Au lieu d'assumer une hiérarchie verticale de la dualité micro-macro, cette étendue doit être traitée non seulement comme multiple, mais aussi comme une chose produite et soutenue par la pratique. Pour faire face à la complexité du monde dans lequel nous vivons, il faut aussi de s'occuper des conduits et connections entre des sites divers, des champs, et des terrains dans lesquels nos vies se déroulent. Cet article conclut avec une note sur la marginalisation de la sociologie dans les discussions publiques ; et il défend l'idée que c'est possiblement en appréhendant l'ambiguïté et la construction incomplète de notre monde contemporain que la sociologie peut être la plus fructueuse en termes de discussions portant sur l'économie, le futur de l'humanité, et l'organisation de la société.

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“…A moralized politics of good and evil, of singular agents who must be made to pay for their sins… becomes unethical to the degree that it legitimates vengeance… An understanding of agency as distributive and confederate thus reinvokes the need to detach ethics from moralism and to produce guides to action appropriate to a world of vital, crosscutting forces. (2010: 38) Quite contrary to any absolution of individual moral culpability or the intellectual neglect of aetiology, such a counterintuitive approach realises a properly more-than-human and sociologically imaginative conception of agency and responsibility (Pyyhtinen, 2016;Wright Mills, 1959). Heeding the insights of the nonhuman turn thus enables us to grasp behaviour and motivation as constituted through a machinic entanglement of power, materiality, bodies and affect.…”

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Persuasion architectures: Consumer spaces, affective engineering and (criminal) harm

Kindynis

2019

Theoretical Criminology

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The item will be removed from the repository while any claim is being investigated. For more information, please contact the GRO team: gro@gold.ac.uk the article considers how such strategies are deployed in three types of consumer environments: shopping malls and retail spaces; casinos and other gambling environments; and the so-called night time economy. In each of these settings, it is shown how design strategies are enrolled in order to elicit physiological and psychological traits conducive to consumption. Also considered is the extent to which such design strategies are capable of modulating the potential for criminogenic and harmful dispositions and behaviours. Third, the article engages such developments theoretically. It is suggested that the increasing prevalence of what I call "persuasion architectures" necessitates that we rethink the distinctions and interrelationships between human subjectivity and agency and the built environment. The implications of this conceptual reorientation are explored -first, for our understandings of agency, intentionality, moral responsibility and political accountability; and second, for criminological thinking around embodied difference, power and exclusion.

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More-than-Human Sociology: A New Sociological Imagination

Cited by 40 publications

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Feminism and a Vital Politics of Depression and Recovery

Feminism and a Vital Politics of Depression and Recovery

Matters of Scale: Sociology in and for a Complex World

Persuasion architectures: Consumer spaces, affective engineering and (criminal) harm

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