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Elton, G. R.

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“…Elton is a left-wing English comedian and author, probably best known for his work on the Blackadder TV series, who had nonetheless published some 14 novels before Time and Time Again. These were mainly but not exclusively comic, and a number of them, especially Stark (1989), Gridlock (1991) andThis Other Eden (1993), had combined environmentalist thematics with SF tropes. Time and Time Again is less comic and less environmentalist than any of those earlier novels.…”

Section: Time-travelling and Fatalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Science Fiction and Climate Change

Milner

2020

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Section: Time-travelling and Fatalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Science Fiction and Climate Change

Milner

2020

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“…Questions of how to represent the past , and implications for morality, have long weighted on the minds of historians (Brown 2005; Elton 1997; Jenkins 1997; Lang 1997). The following paragraphs seek to unpack a well-rehearsed debate whose relevance has also been noted by proponents of the historic turn in management and organization studies (Booth et al 2007).…”

Section: The Politics Of Representation: Realism and Relativismmentioning

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“…Although vast differences can be observed between positivist (Popper 1960), empiricist (Elton 1997) and Marxist (Carr 2001; Hobsbawm 1997) history and historiographies, they are united by their realist ontological positioning. All such histories are underpinned with the view that reality in the present and the past exists aside from, or independent of, actors’ mental appreciation of it (Jenkins 1995).…”

Section: The Politics Of Representation: Realism and Relativismmentioning

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Theorizing the past: Realism, relativism, relationalism and the reassembly of Weber

Durepos

Mills

Weatherbee

2012

Management & Organizational History

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This paper attempts to address the recent call for an historic turn in management and organization studies: that of how to do history and represent the past of the field. To this end, we begin by stressing the need to theorize the past. We develop and describe a concept that we term relationalism, which draws on the sociology of knowledge (SoK) as well as select facets of an approach that has been developed through an engagement with the SoK, that of actor-network theory. The paper offers a theoretical discussion of relationalism as a way of theorizing the past and the past-as-history as an alternative to realism and relativism. We seek an empirical demonstration of relationalism through exploring the wide dispersion and numerous linguistic translations of the work of a scholar who was instrumental in the development of the SoK, that of Max Weber. Relationalism calls for interrogating the politics of representing the past, tracing actors symmetrically and surfacing the past-as-history in its multiplicity. Telling the past relationally calls for an exploration of the tensions between different modes of knowing. To this end, we offer it as a moral alternative.

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“…Next to literary criticism, the practice of history remains strongly resistant to ‘theory’, particularly postmodern forms of theory. (Evans 1997 is the classic rebuttal, though in fairness Evans distances himself from empiricism meaning 1, as expressed, for example, by Elton 1991.) Again, while most historical theorists have long moved beyond the famous empiricist position articulated by Ranke, the practising historian still works in an additive way and has little everyday concern for matters of ‘theory’.…”

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On the nature of empiricism in archaeology

Johnson¹

2011

Royal Anthropological Inst

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‘Empiricism’ can mean many things; I discuss it here as the belief that the data speak for themselves, without the need for intervening theory. Empiricism in this sense would be considered by most to be simply naïve, but I argue that it remains one of the most widespread implicit theoretical positions in archaeology as a whole. This article examines the intellectual origins and cultural context of empiricism, and asks why it endures. I discuss two case studies: the archaeology of castles; and the origins of the medieval village. I argue that empiricism should be understood rather than simply dismissed, and propose some therapeutic practices for archaeological interpretation. Résumé « Empirisme » peut revêtir de nombreux sens. L'auteur l'envisage ici comme la conviction que les données parlent d'elles‐mêmes, sans qu'il faille faire intervenir la théorie. Dans ce sens, l'empirisme passerait aux yeux de la plupart des gens pour de la naïveté, mais l'auteur avance qu'il reste l'une des positions théoriques implicites les plus répandues dans l'archéologie, au sens large. Le présent article examine les origines intellectuelles et le contexte culturel de l'empirisme et s'interroge sur sa longévité. Il expose deux études de case : l'archéologie des châteaux‐forts et les origines du village médiéval. L'auteur propose de comprendre l'empirisme au lieu de simplement le rejeter et avance quelques idées de pratiques thérapeutiques pour l'interprétation archéologique.

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Theorizing the past: Realism, relativism, relationalism and the reassembly of Weber

On the nature of empiricism in archaeology

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