Happy mournings, agile theories

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Published 10-11-2015
Gabriel Gatti

Abstract

Through the review of the limits and possible uses of a peripheral category of Alfonso Pérez-Agote's work, that of mourning, the text makes an "applied praise" of a way of "doing theory through researching" (hot theory, middle-range theory). The applied praise can, by coherence, only be so if itself stretches the Pérez-Agote's uses of the category, if it takes it beyond. It means that, besides proposing the des-individualization or socialization of the mourning category, the article offers a modest hypothesis: that mourning can occupy complete collective lives in space and time and that those collective lives are social, but not social as any other.

How to Cite

Gatti, G. (2015). Happy mournings, agile theories. Papeles De Identidad, 2015(3), papel 135. https://doi.org/10.1387/pceic.15185
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Keywords

mourning, sociological theory, sociological imagination, teaching

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