Explores the previously under-examined topic of construction activities and their effect on human histories, geographies and sociologies.

Offers a cross-disciplinary approach from a broad range of fields within the social sciences and humanities.

Develops construction management research beyond the purely practical

Autorentext
Daniel J. Sage is Senior Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour in the School of Business and Economics at Loughborough University.
Chloé Vitry is Research Associate in the School of Business and Economics at Loughborough University.

Inhalt
1 Introduction: societies under construction; Daniel Sage and Chloé Vitry.- 2 This building is never complete: studying adaptations of a library building over time; Hiral Patel and Dylan Tutt.- 3 Constructing work: politics, society, and architectural history on the Paris building site; Jacob Paskins.- 4 Liberating the semantics: embodied work(man)ship in construction; Rikard Sandberg, Christine Räisänen, Martin Löwstedt and Ani Raiden.- 5 Change and continuity: what can construction tell us about institutional theory?; Paul Chan.- 6 Building home futures: materialities of construction and meanings of home in self-help building practices; Monika Grubbauer.- 7 From relational to regressive place-making: developing an ANT theory of place with house building; Daniel Sage and Chloé Vitry.- 8 Organizing space and time through relational human-animal boundary work: exclusion, invitation and disturbance; Daniel Sage, Lise Justesen, Andrew Dainty, Kjell Tryggestad and Jan Mouritsen.