Live Methods

Experimentation, attentiveness, collaboration, multi–media platforms, public sociology, the game of social life and research, idiotic methods, scavenging, mapping and topologies frame the live methods offered in this collection. The book is global in scope and inter–woven by theoretical and methodological considerations. These chapters emerge from the Methods Lab at Goldsmiths University, which is committed to developing inventive ways of ′doing sociology′. This new initiative aims at constructing a laboratory for the practice of sociological imagination and the aim is to make social research responsive to social life – to bring it alive.

Series editor’s introduction (Chris Shilling) A manifesto for live methods: provocations and capacities (Les Back and Nirmal Puwar) ART Live sociology: social research and its futures (Les Back) Curating sociology (Nirmal Puwar and Sanjay Sharma) Seeing it whole: staging totality in social theory and art (Alberto Toscano) STORYING Once upon a problem (Mariam Motamedi Fraser) Learning to be affected: social suffering and total pain at life’s borders (Yasmin Gunaratnam) DIGITAL Being stuck in (live) time: the sticky sociological imagination (Emma Uprichard) The redistribution of methods: on intervention in digital social research, broadly conceived (Noorjte Marres) DESIGNS De–signing the object of sociology: toward an ‘idiotic’ methodology (Mike Michael) Going live: towards an amphibious sociology (Celia Lury) Notes on contributors Index

Les Back is Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. Nirmal Puwar is Senior Lecturer is Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.