Unraveling Ties: From Social Cohesion to New Practices of Connectedness Book

Preface

Yehuda Elkana

Unraveling Ties:  Disciplinary Legacies and Changing Cartographies

Elísio S. Macamo, Ivan Krastev, Shalini Randeria

Part I:  Notions

Bindung - Exploring the Issues

Franz-Xaver Kaufmann

Cohesion, Attachment, Commitment

Eberhard Ortland

Part II:  Confessions - Friendship, Blat, Networks

The Politics of Friendship:  Classic and Contemporary Concerns

Oleg Kharkhordin

A Moral Economy of Anti-Corruption Sentiments in Eastern Europe

Ivan Krastev

Ties that Might Heal:  Testimonials, Solidarity, and Antiretrovirals in West Africa

Vinh-Kim Nguyen

Biographical Knots

Elísio Macamo

Lonely Ever More:  Kinship, Consumption and the Formation of  Social Ties

Elizabeth C. Dunn

Part III:  Memories

From Ties that Bind to Ties that Relieve.  Eigensinn and Bindung Among Industrial Workers in 20th Century Germany

Alf Lüdtke

Entangled Memories.  Bindung and Identity

Heike Schmidt

Comment:  The Cohesive Force of Forgetting - When Can We Forget and On What Terms?

Jennifer Balint

Part IV:  Inventions - Citizenship/Work

Bindung and Unemployment in Late Nineteenth-Century Germany

Bénédicte Zimmerman

The Discrete Charm of Dual Citizenship:  Citizenship Ties, Trust and the >>Pink Card<<

Ayse S.Çaglar

Why Do Megamergers Fail?  The Ties that Bind or the Sometimes Unwanted Cohesive Force of Corporate Identity

Cord Jakobeit

Part V:  Visions

Value Pluralism and Moral Universalism

Hans Joas

Entangled Histories of Uneven Modernities:  Civil Society, Caste Solidarities and Legal Pluralism in Post-Colonial India

Shalini Randeria

Bindung: A Processual Approach

Sally Humphreys

Intuitions

The Inevitable Weakening of Social Bonds (Bindung)

Alain Touraine

Post-script

Re-connecting Ties

Helga Nowotny

Editors

Contributors