The Nexus of Practices

Connections, constellations, practitioners

Allison Hui, Theodore Schatzki (University of Kentucky, USA), Elizabeth Shove

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Routledge
06 December 2016

Social theory; Economics & Business

The Nexus of Practices: connections, constellations, practitioners brings leading theorists of practice together to provide a fresh set of theoretical impulses for the surge of practice-focused studies currently sweeping across the social disciplines. The book addresses key issues facing practice theory, expands practice theory’s conceptual repertoire, and explores new empirical terrain. With each intellectual move, it generates further opportunities for social research.

More specifically, the book’s chapters offer new approaches to analysing connections within the nexus of practices, to exploring the dynamics and implications of the constellations that practices form, and to understanding people as practitioners that carry on practices. Topics examined include social change, language, power, affect, reflection, large social phenomena, and connectivity over time and space. Contributors thereby counter claims that practice theory cannot handle large phenomena and that it ignores people. The contributions also develop practice theoretical ideas in dialogue with other forms of social theory and in ways illustrated and informed by empirical cases and examples.

The Nexus of Practices will quickly become an important point of reference for future practice-focused research in the social sciences.

Edited by: Allison Hui, Theodore Schatzki (University of Kentucky, USA), Elizabeth Shove
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9781138675155
ISBN 10: 1138675156
Pages: 236
Publication Date: 06 December 2016
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Hui, Allison ; Schatzki, Theodore; Shove, Elizabeth

Reviews for The Nexus of Practices: Connections, constellations, practitioners

This dazzling volume demonstrates the power of rich diversity among practice theories and theorists. It has started a conversation that will engender a new generation of practice-based studies and reshape the field, as researchers respond to the book's empirical and theoretical challenges. Essential reading. Professor Emeritus Stephen Kemmis, Charles Sturt University, Australia