{"product_id":"the-nexus-of-practices-9781138675155","title":"The Nexus of Practices","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Nexus of Practices: connections, constellations, practitioners\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003eMore 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 ign\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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.\" \u003cem\u003eProfessor Emeritus Stephen Kemmis, Charles Sturt University, Australia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction, (\u003ci\u003eAllison Hui, Theodore Schatzki and Elizabeth Shove)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. Learning in and Across Practices: Enablement as Subjectivation, (\u003ci\u003eThomas Alkemeyer and Nikolaus Buschmann)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. Qualities of Connective Tissue in Hospital Life: How Complexes of Practices Change, (\u003ci\u003eStanley Blue and Nicola Spurling)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Sociomateriality in Posthuman Practice Theory, (\u003ci\u003eSilvia Gherardi)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. Variation and the Intersection of Practices, (\u003ci\u003eAllison Hui)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5.\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eEpigenetics, Theories of Social Practice and Lifestyle Disease, (\u003ci\u003eCecily Maller)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. Technologies Within and Beyond Practices, (\u003ci\u003eJanine Morley)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. Is Small the Only Beautiful? Making Sense of ‘Large Phenomena’ From a Practice-Based Perspective, (\u003ci\u003eDavide Nicolini)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. Practices and their Affects, (\u003ci\u003eAndreas Reckwitz)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9. Sayings, Texts and Discursive Formations, (\u003ci\u003eTheodore Schatzki)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10. Reflexive Knowledge in Practices, (\u003ci\u003eRobert Schmidt)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11. Matters of Practice, (\u003ci\u003eElizabeth Shove)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12. Placing Power in Practice Theory, (\u003ci\u003eMatt Watson)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e13. How Should We Understand ‘General Understandings’?, (\u003cem\u003eDaniel Welch and Alan Warde)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReferences\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019515822423,"sku":"9781138675155","price":43.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138675155.jpg?v=1750780498","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-nexus-of-practices-9781138675155","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}