A Cossu
Biographic Data
| ID | 15129 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Cossu |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Cossu |
| SIGNATURE | COSSU A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Trento |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8324-4024 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
How to Become Intimate with a Book You Did Not Write: Backstage Collaboration in Creating Sociological Understanding
Performing Social Distancing: Culture, Scripts, and Meaningful Order in the Italian Lockdown
Culture
In the field but not of the field: Clifford Geertz, Robert Bellah, and the practices of interdisciplinarity
The intellectual trajectories of social scientists Robert N. Bellah and Clifford Geertz are compared as a case study in the production of successful interdisciplinary work. Geertz and Bellah started from a similar position, in terms of scholarly habits, network centrality, and symbolic capital. However, while Geertz became an interdisciplinary star and left his mark in disciplines as diverse as history, sociology, and cultural studies, Bellah's i…
Clifford Geertz, intellectual autonomy, and interpretive social science
From lines to networks: Calendars, narrative, and temporality
The focus of the article is the analysis of a particular site of collective memory (one state’s system of national holidays condensed in a calendar) from a perspective that highlights its relational and narrative characteristics. By adopting the idea of “commemorative networks,” the article will regard commemorated events as nodes in a network, connected by ties that highlight the causal relationship between any two events as perceived by the com…
Commemoration and processes of appropriation: The Italian Communist Party and the Italian Resistance (1943–48)
Scholarship on collective memory often conceives struggles over the past as directly dependent on the structure of interests in the present. However, temporal constraints affect the way the past is selected and represented. In this article I focus on the appropriation of the memory of the Resistance by the Italian Communist Party in the years between 1943 and 1948. I highlight, following a growing literature on the path dependence of memory, that…
In the field but not of the field: Clifford Geertz, Robert Bellah, and the practices of interdisciplinarity
The intellectual trajectories of social scientists Robert N. Bellah and Clifford Geertz are compared as a case study in the production of successful interdisciplinary work. Geertz and Bellah started from a similar position, in terms of scholarly habits, network centrality, and symbolic capital. However, while Geertz became an interdisciplinary star and left his mark in disciplines as diverse as history, sociology, and cultural studies, Bellah's i…
Clifford Geertz, intellectual autonomy, and interpretive social science
How to Become Intimate with a Book You Did Not Write: Backstage Collaboration in Creating Sociological Understanding
Commemoration and processes of appropriation: The Italian Communist Party and the Italian Resistance (1943–48)
Scholarship on collective memory often conceives struggles over the past as directly dependent on the structure of interests in the present. However, temporal constraints affect the way the past is selected and represented. In this article I focus on the appropriation of the memory of the Resistance by the Italian Communist Party in the years between 1943 and 1948. I highlight, following a growing literature on the path dependence of memory, that…
Performing Social Distancing: Culture, Scripts, and Meaningful Order in the Italian Lockdown
Commemoration and processes of appropriation: The Italian Communist Party and the Italian Resistance (1943–48)
Scholarship on collective memory often conceives struggles over the past as directly dependent on the structure of interests in the present. However, temporal constraints affect the way the past is selected and represented. In this article I focus on the appropriation of the memory of the Resistance by the Italian Communist Party in the years between 1943 and 1948. I highlight, following a growing literature on the path dependence of memory, that…
From lines to networks: Calendars, narrative, and temporality
The focus of the article is the analysis of a particular site of collective memory (one state’s system of national holidays condensed in a calendar) from a perspective that highlights its relational and narrative characteristics. By adopting the idea of “commemorative networks,” the article will regard commemorated events as nodes in a network, connected by ties that highlight the causal relationship between any two events as perceived by the com…
Clifford Geertz, intellectual autonomy, and interpretive social science
Culture
In the field but not of the field: Clifford Geertz, Robert Bellah, and the practices of interdisciplinarity
The intellectual trajectories of social scientists Robert N. Bellah and Clifford Geertz are compared as a case study in the production of successful interdisciplinary work. Geertz and Bellah started from a similar position, in terms of scholarly habits, network centrality, and symbolic capital. However, while Geertz became an interdisciplinary star and left his mark in disciplines as diverse as history, sociology, and cultural studies, Bellah's i…
Performing Social Distancing: Culture, Scripts, and Meaningful Order in the Italian Lockdown
How to Become Intimate with a Book You Did Not Write: Backstage Collaboration in Creating Sociological Understanding
Epistemology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · History (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (3 works) · Focus (optics (3 works) · History (3 works)