Hi Steve
Can you give us a brief report on the book - e.g. the information on the
back cover or the contents list or something like that? I would find it
useful.
Thanks
John Quay
Steve Bowles wrote:
> Hello everybody ( I write to two lists at the same time as you see).
>
> I wonder if there are enough people to be interested in discussing
> on-line the book " Contested Natures" that has recently been published
> by sage and written by Phil Macnaghten and John Urry (1998).
>
> If there are enough people interested we might try and organise a
> reasonable debate and helpful dialogue.
>
> For example we might take one chapter at a time and discuss it on-line
> as it comes. By the way there are 8 chapters.
>
> I am not here trying to make a package but I do suggest that we might
> cretae some kind of communication built around one book. A book, that in
> my mind, helps provide a most serious and adventurous set of potentials
> for our work in general.
>
> My own preference is for this discussion ( if it happens) to be open and
> public.
>
> The reason for suggesting that this book be discussed chapter by chapter
> is a reason attached to a structure of communication.
>
> Of course this can be done through a small group as well in more private
> terms. That is OK but, I think, a shame.
>
> best wishes
> steve bowles
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