I Darmon
Biographic Data
| ID | 43100 |
|---|---|
| NAME | I Darmon |
| GIVEN NAMES | I |
| FAMILY NAME | Darmon |
| SIGNATURE | DARMON I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8498-0514 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Forgotten Flavours and the Flavours of the Forgotten
This paper proposes a preliminary inquiry into Scottish ecological flavourscapes, and the various ways in which they mobilise forgotten foods and flavours towards ecological and food security ends: as national biocultural heritage, as wild ‘larder’, and as un- or under-tapped pools of genes and nutrients. The paper explores some of the continuities, contrasts and tensions between different conceptions of the ‘forgotten’, the visions of ecology, s…
Covid-19
Esta sección abre un espacio para la reflexión en torno a diversos puntos de las crisis globales y locales que nos afectan en el contexto de esta pandemia. A continuación, presentamos un grupo de textos breves abordando diferentes escenarios sociales durante y después del impacto global del Covid-19
Of Sound and Flavour – Revisiting the Notion of Material for the Cultural Sociological Analysis of Art Domains
This article proposes a possible path for a materialist cultural sociology of art, focusing on the dynamics of art(s) domains and harnessing Adorno’s dialectical notion of material anew. I seek to establish links between dynamics of the arts domains and the fostering of specific modes of engagement with them – and, potentially, stances in other domains of life. I argue that a return to Adorno’s notion of (musical) material allows for such connect…
Habits and orders of everyday life
This paper examines processes of habit reshuffling and change in different contexts of household formation, looking specifically at habits regarding eating and commensality. It is based on a study of 14 couples, each with one English and one French partner, half of whom live in France, half in England. We examine the interplay between partners, their determination to eat together as a couple, and the various 'orders' associated with their commens…
Theatrical dialogue in teaching the classics
This article addresses some fundamental affinities between theatre and teaching and is based on emerging work in a long-term experiment which we began in the conference 'Weber/Simmel Antagonisms: Staged Dialogues', held at the University of Edinburgh on December 2015. Aimed at exploring the possibilities of the theatrical and dialogical forms for teaching the classics of social and cultural theory, it is a risky experiment whose initial results a…
Senses and Sensibilities
This article examines changes in tastes and practice in the context of establishing and maintaining a new cross-national couple relationship. Interviews provided accounts of the experience of change among fourteen Anglo-French couples. We describe two processes of change which, because accentuated in cross-national couples, reveal mechanisms lying behind the transformation and stabilisation of tastes and diets. Explanation of the evolution of tas…
Weber on Music
Max Weber's music writings (including his unfinished 'Music Study') have always mesmerized readers but their importance for analysing music as a cultural domain has only started to be acknowledged. This paper focuses on Weber's approach to the inner 'developmental momentum' of the music domain through his study of the particular tension that pervaded Western harmonic music. By showing how composers, performers, instrument manufacturers, art recip…
Introduction
Comparison is at the heart of social sciences, and the study of ‘other’ culinary cultures is as old as the study of food practices – as a privileged and enduring object of anthropology. More recently, the cross-national comparison of food habits has received a new impulse from other quarters, as the association of eating habits with public health issues has come under scrutiny. Whereas the former had fostered studies of eating practices and their…
Under pressure - learning from the culinary and alimentary practices of Anglo-French couples for cross-national comparison
In this paper we explore the merits of interviews with bi-national couples about their eating habits for casting light on cross-national comparison between foodways. In the context of an exploratory study looking at eating habits and change in France and Britain (England), we found that the experiences of cross-cultural couples and cross-national relocation were fruitful vehicles for the comparison of practices. Generally speaking, partners seeki…
Beneath and Beyond the Fragments
Our purpose in this article is to explore the reasons for the continued attractiveness of Simmel's thought today and to probe the contemporary affinities to his philosophical stance towards the world. Simmel anchored the 'philosophical attitude' in the philosopher's particularly developed disposition for Erlebnis, i.e. the unified pre-conceptual experience of each moment of reality and life, as well as in a particular mode of objectivating this e…
Conduct of conduct’ or the shaping of ‘adequate dispositions’? Labour market and career guidance in four European countries
In this paper, we provide an analysis of the deployment of labour market and career guidance as an instrument of liberal governmental rationality, and hence as a key tool for shaping attitudes suitable for the labour market. We characterize such processes and their effects on both those in receipt of guidance and those delivering it, on the basis of a three-year study in France, Slovenia, Spain and the UK. This leads us to put forward the problem…
No 'new spirit'? Max Weber's account of the dynamic of contemporary capitalism through 'pure adaptation' and the shaping of adequate subjects
This article takes issue with Luc Boltanski and ve Chiapello's already classic thesis according to which contemporary capitalism rests on a 'new spirit', bringing to bear a reading of Weber's own account of the dynamic and spirit of the contemporary capitalism of his age, and of the way in which it mobilises workers and entrepreneurs. More specifically the article highlights Weber's idea that advanced capitalism, far from relying on any 'new spir…
New modes of business organization and precarious employment
While much of the international debate on the future of work focuses on the links between new forms of employment and social protection, and especially on transitions between jobs, this paper addresses a still under-researched issue: the interconnections between employment regulations and business strategies in the production of precarious employment. It seeks to make a contribution to a new strand of research which has emerged in France, Britain…
Formés et formateurs face à la « double contrainte » des programmes de formation à l'employabilité des chômeurs de longue durée
Isabelle Darmon, Didier Demazière, Carlos Frade und Isabelle Haas, Auszubildende und Ausbilder angesichts des „doppelten Zwanges" der Ausbildungsprogramme zur Vermittlungsfähigkeit Langzeitarbeitsloser. Der vorliegende Beitrag ist eine Feldstudie, die in drei europäischen Ländern (Belgien, Frankreich und Vereinigtes Königreich) zum Thema Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit durchgeführt wurde. Darin wird gezeigt, was durch den Wandel der Bildungseinrichtunge…
New modes of business organization and precarious employment
While much of the international debate on the future of work focuses on the links between new forms of employment and social protection, and especially on transitions between jobs, this paper addresses a still under-researched issue: the interconnections between employment regulations and business strategies in the production of precarious employment. It seeks to make a contribution to a new strand of research which has emerged in France, Britain…
Conduct of conduct’ or the shaping of ‘adequate dispositions’? Labour market and career guidance in four European countries
In this paper, we provide an analysis of the deployment of labour market and career guidance as an instrument of liberal governmental rationality, and hence as a key tool for shaping attitudes suitable for the labour market. We characterize such processes and their effects on both those in receipt of guidance and those delivering it, on the basis of a three-year study in France, Slovenia, Spain and the UK. This leads us to put forward the problem…
Habits and orders of everyday life
This paper examines processes of habit reshuffling and change in different contexts of household formation, looking specifically at habits regarding eating and commensality. It is based on a study of 14 couples, each with one English and one French partner, half of whom live in France, half in England. We examine the interplay between partners, their determination to eat together as a couple, and the various 'orders' associated with their commens…
Senses and Sensibilities
This article examines changes in tastes and practice in the context of establishing and maintaining a new cross-national couple relationship. Interviews provided accounts of the experience of change among fourteen Anglo-French couples. We describe two processes of change which, because accentuated in cross-national couples, reveal mechanisms lying behind the transformation and stabilisation of tastes and diets. Explanation of the evolution of tas…
Weber on Music
Max Weber's music writings (including his unfinished 'Music Study') have always mesmerized readers but their importance for analysing music as a cultural domain has only started to be acknowledged. This paper focuses on Weber's approach to the inner 'developmental momentum' of the music domain through his study of the particular tension that pervaded Western harmonic music. By showing how composers, performers, instrument manufacturers, art recip…
Beneath and Beyond the Fragments
Our purpose in this article is to explore the reasons for the continued attractiveness of Simmel's thought today and to probe the contemporary affinities to his philosophical stance towards the world. Simmel anchored the 'philosophical attitude' in the philosopher's particularly developed disposition for Erlebnis, i.e. the unified pre-conceptual experience of each moment of reality and life, as well as in a particular mode of objectivating this e…
Formés et formateurs face à la « double contrainte » des programmes de formation à l'employabilité des chômeurs de longue durée
Isabelle Darmon, Didier Demazière, Carlos Frade und Isabelle Haas, Auszubildende und Ausbilder angesichts des „doppelten Zwanges" der Ausbildungsprogramme zur Vermittlungsfähigkeit Langzeitarbeitsloser. Der vorliegende Beitrag ist eine Feldstudie, die in drei europäischen Ländern (Belgien, Frankreich und Vereinigtes Königreich) zum Thema Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit durchgeführt wurde. Darin wird gezeigt, was durch den Wandel der Bildungseinrichtunge…
Introduction
Comparison is at the heart of social sciences, and the study of ‘other’ culinary cultures is as old as the study of food practices – as a privileged and enduring object of anthropology. More recently, the cross-national comparison of food habits has received a new impulse from other quarters, as the association of eating habits with public health issues has come under scrutiny. Whereas the former had fostered studies of eating practices and their…
Under pressure - learning from the culinary and alimentary practices of Anglo-French couples for cross-national comparison
In this paper we explore the merits of interviews with bi-national couples about their eating habits for casting light on cross-national comparison between foodways. In the context of an exploratory study looking at eating habits and change in France and Britain (England), we found that the experiences of cross-cultural couples and cross-national relocation were fruitful vehicles for the comparison of practices. Generally speaking, partners seeki…
No 'new spirit'? Max Weber's account of the dynamic of contemporary capitalism through 'pure adaptation' and the shaping of adequate subjects
This article takes issue with Luc Boltanski and ve Chiapello's already classic thesis according to which contemporary capitalism rests on a 'new spirit', bringing to bear a reading of Weber's own account of the dynamic and spirit of the contemporary capitalism of his age, and of the way in which it mobilises workers and entrepreneurs. More specifically the article highlights Weber's idea that advanced capitalism, far from relying on any 'new spir…
Formés et formateurs face à la « double contrainte » des programmes de formation à l'employabilité des chômeurs de longue durée
Isabelle Darmon, Didier Demazière, Carlos Frade und Isabelle Haas, Auszubildende und Ausbilder angesichts des „doppelten Zwanges" der Ausbildungsprogramme zur Vermittlungsfähigkeit Langzeitarbeitsloser. Der vorliegende Beitrag ist eine Feldstudie, die in drei europäischen Ländern (Belgien, Frankreich und Vereinigtes Königreich) zum Thema Langzeitarbeitslosigkeit durchgeführt wurde. Darin wird gezeigt, was durch den Wandel der Bildungseinrichtunge…
New modes of business organization and precarious employment
While much of the international debate on the future of work focuses on the links between new forms of employment and social protection, and especially on transitions between jobs, this paper addresses a still under-researched issue: the interconnections between employment regulations and business strategies in the production of precarious employment. It seeks to make a contribution to a new strand of research which has emerged in France, Britain…
Conduct of conduct’ or the shaping of ‘adequate dispositions’? Labour market and career guidance in four European countries
In this paper, we provide an analysis of the deployment of labour market and career guidance as an instrument of liberal governmental rationality, and hence as a key tool for shaping attitudes suitable for the labour market. We characterize such processes and their effects on both those in receipt of guidance and those delivering it, on the basis of a three-year study in France, Slovenia, Spain and the UK. This leads us to put forward the problem…
No 'new spirit'? Max Weber's account of the dynamic of contemporary capitalism through 'pure adaptation' and the shaping of adequate subjects
This article takes issue with Luc Boltanski and ve Chiapello's already classic thesis according to which contemporary capitalism rests on a 'new spirit', bringing to bear a reading of Weber's own account of the dynamic and spirit of the contemporary capitalism of his age, and of the way in which it mobilises workers and entrepreneurs. More specifically the article highlights Weber's idea that advanced capitalism, far from relying on any 'new spir…
Beneath and Beyond the Fragments
Our purpose in this article is to explore the reasons for the continued attractiveness of Simmel's thought today and to probe the contemporary affinities to his philosophical stance towards the world. Simmel anchored the 'philosophical attitude' in the philosopher's particularly developed disposition for Erlebnis, i.e. the unified pre-conceptual experience of each moment of reality and life, as well as in a particular mode of objectivating this e…
Introduction
Comparison is at the heart of social sciences, and the study of ‘other’ culinary cultures is as old as the study of food practices – as a privileged and enduring object of anthropology. More recently, the cross-national comparison of food habits has received a new impulse from other quarters, as the association of eating habits with public health issues has come under scrutiny. Whereas the former had fostered studies of eating practices and their…
Under pressure - learning from the culinary and alimentary practices of Anglo-French couples for cross-national comparison
In this paper we explore the merits of interviews with bi-national couples about their eating habits for casting light on cross-national comparison between foodways. In the context of an exploratory study looking at eating habits and change in France and Britain (England), we found that the experiences of cross-cultural couples and cross-national relocation were fruitful vehicles for the comparison of practices. Generally speaking, partners seeki…
Weber on Music
Max Weber's music writings (including his unfinished 'Music Study') have always mesmerized readers but their importance for analysing music as a cultural domain has only started to be acknowledged. This paper focuses on Weber's approach to the inner 'developmental momentum' of the music domain through his study of the particular tension that pervaded Western harmonic music. By showing how composers, performers, instrument manufacturers, art recip…
Senses and Sensibilities
This article examines changes in tastes and practice in the context of establishing and maintaining a new cross-national couple relationship. Interviews provided accounts of the experience of change among fourteen Anglo-French couples. We describe two processes of change which, because accentuated in cross-national couples, reveal mechanisms lying behind the transformation and stabilisation of tastes and diets. Explanation of the evolution of tas…
Theatrical dialogue in teaching the classics
This article addresses some fundamental affinities between theatre and teaching and is based on emerging work in a long-term experiment which we began in the conference 'Weber/Simmel Antagonisms: Staged Dialogues', held at the University of Edinburgh on December 2015. Aimed at exploring the possibilities of the theatrical and dialogical forms for teaching the classics of social and cultural theory, it is a risky experiment whose initial results a…
Habits and orders of everyday life
This paper examines processes of habit reshuffling and change in different contexts of household formation, looking specifically at habits regarding eating and commensality. It is based on a study of 14 couples, each with one English and one French partner, half of whom live in France, half in England. We examine the interplay between partners, their determination to eat together as a couple, and the various 'orders' associated with their commens…
Covid-19
Esta sección abre un espacio para la reflexión en torno a diversos puntos de las crisis globales y locales que nos afectan en el contexto de esta pandemia. A continuación, presentamos un grupo de textos breves abordando diferentes escenarios sociales durante y después del impacto global del Covid-19
Of Sound and Flavour – Revisiting the Notion of Material for the Cultural Sociological Analysis of Art Domains
This article proposes a possible path for a materialist cultural sociology of art, focusing on the dynamics of art(s) domains and harnessing Adorno’s dialectical notion of material anew. I seek to establish links between dynamics of the arts domains and the fostering of specific modes of engagement with them – and, potentially, stances in other domains of life. I argue that a return to Adorno’s notion of (musical) material allows for such connect…
Forgotten Flavours and the Flavours of the Forgotten
This paper proposes a preliminary inquiry into Scottish ecological flavourscapes, and the various ways in which they mobilise forgotten foods and flavours towards ecological and food security ends: as national biocultural heritage, as wild ‘larder’, and as un- or under-tapped pools of genes and nutrients. The paper explores some of the continuities, contrasts and tensions between different conceptions of the ‘forgotten’, the visions of ecology, s…
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