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The Object of Conservation: an ethnography of heritage practice (2022)
Book
Jones, S., & Yarrow, T. (2022). The Object of Conservation: an ethnography of heritage practice. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315622385

The Object of Conservation examines how historic buildings, monuments and artefacts are cared for as valued embodiments of the past. It tells the fascinating story of the working lives of those involved in conservation through an ethnographic account... Read More about The Object of Conservation: an ethnography of heritage practice.

Detachment: essays on the limits of relational thinking (2015)
Book
Yarrow, T., Candea, M., Trundle, C., & Cook, J. (Eds.). (2015). Detachment: essays on the limits of relational thinking. Manchester University Press

This interdisciplinary volume questions one of the most fundamental tenets of social theory by focusing on detachment, an important but neglected aspect of social life. Going against the grain of recent theoretical celebrations of ‘engagement’, this... Read More about Detachment: essays on the limits of relational thinking.