In this introduction to Live Methods Revisited, we reflect upon the conjuncture in which Live Methods was originally published as a way of contextualising and appraising its legacy. In doing so we focus on an aspect of Live Methods which has had less attention – the politics of methods. Live Methods offered a reassertion of the promise and potential for sociological practice through reimagining methods, in the face of a proclaimed crisis of empirical sociology. Resultantly, it made an important intervention into how sociological research methods are practised, understood and written about. Following the 10-year anniversary of its publication, the reflections on the legacy of Live Methods have taken on greater meaning, in a different kind of crisis, that of Higher Education. The dire impacts of marketisation have borne directly upon the institution in which Live Methods was created, marking this special section in The Sociological Review as offering a critical reflection and an act of preservation of the distinct contribution of Goldsmiths Sociology. We reflect upon the role of Live Methods in the current political conjuncture and how it may, in renewed ways, offer different kinds of interventions to help navigate and creatively resist this contemporary crisis.

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重新审视 Live Methods 简介：Live Methods 的根源和结合

在这篇 Live Methods Revisited 的介绍中，我们反思了 Live Methods 最初作为一种情境化和评估其遗产的方式而出版的结合点。在此过程中，我们专注于 Live Methods 中较少受到关注的一个方面 – 方法的政治。面对公认的实证社会学危机，Live Methods 通过重新构想方法重新确立了社会学实践的前景和潜力。因此，它对社会学研究方法的实践、理解和写作方式进行了重要的干预。在其出版 10 周年之后，对 Live Methods 遗产的反思在另一种危机中具有更大的意义，即高等教育。市场化的可怕影响直接影响到创建 Live Methods 的机构，标志着《社会学评论》的这一特殊部分提供了对金史密斯社会学独特贡献的批判性反思和保留行为。我们反思了 Live Methods 在当前政治形势中的作用，以及它如何以新的方式提供不同类型的干预措施，以帮助驾驭和创造性地抵御这场当代危机。