Résumé :
In a series of papers I have sought to present empirical evidence from the travellingcircus to exemplify MacIntyre’s ‘goods-virtues-practices-institutions’ framework (Beadle 2003, Beadle and Könyöt 2006, Beadle 2009), a project to which MacIntyrehas recently given support (MacIntyre 2008a, 6). The parallels between the travellingcircus, fishing communities and other forms of work-based community commendedby MacIntyre include their requirements of apprenticeship, their maintenance of shared standards of excellence (along with the practical rationality these involve),their immanent integration between the domains of work and non-work and their recognition of tradition. My work has sought to illustrate the relationships betweenthese features of their shared lives and the development of the virtues of their inhabitants. Part of the animation for this project has been to illustrate the starkcontrast between the lives of travelling circus people and the compartmentalisedliving of the contemporary order.[extract]

Localisation : Études, rapports et articles de périodiques