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Information technology --- Plants --- Science --- Technological innovations --- Economic aspects --- Therapeutic use --- Technogical innovations

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Diffusion of innovations. --- Hunting and gathering societies. --- Prehistoric peoples. --- Social change.

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All forms of popular protest include a specific category of 'popular intellectuals', who reflect on social reality, speak in the name of popular classes and who articulate ideas that inspire collective action. This volume focuses on these individuals from an original angle: it looks at the experiences of popular intellectuals in non-western societies, who operate within social-movement networks that link local, regional, and international arenas, and connect to a global flow of ideas. Eight case studies on different societies in twentieth-century Asia, Africa, and Latin America highlight specific activist intellectuals and their role in collective action. They cover a wide terrain, including framing contests among Muslim activists and cultural brokerage in an ecological movement. The collection provides fresh insights into the cultural dynamics of social contention and widens the geographic scope of current debates on this theme.

Labor supply --- Information society --- Working class --- Technological innovations --- Information technology --- Effect of technological innovations on --- History --- Economic aspects --- Intellectuals --- Protest movements --- Social movements --- Political activity --- Protest movements. --- Social movements. --- Political activity. --- Movements, Social --- Social history --- Social psychology --- Intelligentsia --- Persons --- Social classes --- Specialists --- Arts and Humanities --- Labor supply - Effect of technological innovations on - History --- Information society - Economic aspects - History --- Working class - Effect of technological innovations on --- Technological innovations - Economic aspects - History --- Information technology - History --- Working class - History --- Intellectuals - Political activity --- Intellectuals - Developing countries

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Computer. Automation --- informatica --- computer science --- museology --- museumkunde --- Museology --- Museums --- Virtual museums --- Digital media --- Data processing --- Technological innovations --- Curatorship --- Philosophy --- Museums - Data processing --- Museums - Technological innovations --- Museums - Curatorship --- Museums - Philosophy

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"An Archaeology of the Immaterial examines a highly significant but poorly understood aspect of material culture studies: the active rejection of the material world. This is evident in a number of cultural projects, including anti-consumerism and asceticism, as well as other attempts to transcend material circumstances. Exploring the cultural work which can be done when the material is rejected, and the social effects of these 'dematerialisations', this book looks at the way people 'disengage' from the world as a specific kind of physical engagement which has profound implications for our understanding of personhood and materiality. Using case studies which range widely in time over Western societies and the technologies of materialising the immaterial, from icons to the scanning tunnelling microscope, Buchli addresses the significance of immateriality for our own economics, cultural perceptions, and emerging forms of social inclusion and exclusion. An Archaeology of the Immaterial is thus an important and innovative contribution to material cultural studies, demonstrating that the making of the immaterial as well as the material are both profoundly powerful operations which work to exert social control and delineate the borders of the imaginable and the enfranchised"--Provided by publisher.

Immaterialism (Philosophy). --- Material culture --- Asceticism. --- Transcendence (Philosophy). --- Technological innovations --- Civilization, Western. --- Social archaeology --- Study and teaching. --- Philosophy. --- History.