Triangles and Tribulations
Translations, Betrayals, and the Making of Cultural-Historical Activity Theory
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- Paperback
316 pages
- Release Date
15 July 2025
Summary
How do social science frameworks get taken up and spread? In Triangles and Tribulations, Clay Spinuzzi uses the sociology of translation to reread the history of one such framework, cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT).
CHAT originated in the 1920s and 1930s work of Soviet psychologists in the Vygotsky Circle, with its key insight—mediation—depicted in a simple triangular diagram drawn by Lev Vygotsky. From there, CHAT was developed and popularized by international scho…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262552172 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262552175 |
| Author: | Clay Spinuzzi |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 316 |
| Release Date: | 15 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
| Series: | Acting with Technology |
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About The Author
Clay Spinuzzi
Clay Spinuzzi is a Professor of Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Texas at Austin. His books include Tracing Genres through Organizations (MIT Press), Network, and All Edge.
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