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Urban revitalization is a long process, and its success depends on
social innovations. Just as with technological developments, it is
almost impossible to predict which social innovations will be
effective. Only in retrospect can we say, something special has
happened here - and it's been going on for a long time."The
Challenge of Social Innovation in Urban Revitalization" looks at
bottom up initiatives, where residents and local organizations took
charge and took risks to improve their living conditions and to
build a new future. The book presents case studies of a series of
initiatives which have borne fruit over a long period of time: the
revitalized industrial areas of Montreal, those of Mondragon in the
Basque country, the Eldonian projects in Liverpool, the search for
urban scenarios in Jerusalem, as well as cases in Nicaragua, Peru,
France, the Netherlands and EU-wide projects.
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Talk at Work is a major collection of studies of language and interaction in a wide variety of institutional and workplace settings, including doctor-patient consultations, legal hearings, mass media, job interviews, visits by health visitors, psychiatric interviews, and calls to emergency services. A theoretical overview of the distinctive contribution made by conversation analysis to our understanding of talk in institutional contexts is followed by reports of the contributors' original empirical research.
Few conversational topics can be as significant as our troubles in
life, whether everyday and commonplace, or more exceptional and
disturbing. In groundbreaking research conducted with John Lee at
the University of Manchester UK, Gail Jefferson turned the
microscope on how people talk about their troubles, not in any
professional or therapeutic setting, but in their ordinary
conversations with family and friends. Through recordings of
interactions in which people talk about problems they're having
with their children, concerns about their health, financial
problems, marital and relationship difficulties (their own or other
people's), examination failures, dramatic events such as burglaries
or a house fire and other such troubles, Jefferson explores the
interactional dynamics and complexities of introducing such topics,
of how speakers sustain and elaborate their descriptions and
accounts of their troubles, how participants align and affiliate
with one another, and finally manage to move away from such topics.
The studies Jefferson published out of that remarkable period of
research have been collected together in this volume. They are as
insightful and informative about how we talk about our troubles, as
they are innovative in the development and application of
Conversation Analysis. Gail Jefferson (1938-2008) was one of the
co-founders of Conversation Analysis (CA); through her early
collaboration with Harvey Sacks and in her subsequent research, she
laid the foundations for what has become an immensely important
interdisciplinary paradigm. She co-authored, with Harvey Sacks and
Emanuel Schegloff, two of the most highly cited articles ever
published in Language, on turn-taking and repair. These papers were
foundational, as was the transcription system that she developed
and that is used by conversation analysts world-wide. Her research
papers were a distinctive and original voice in the emerging
micro-analysis of interaction in everyday life.
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