Practice Theory Reading Group  
  next meeting: BBQ by duck pond 1st June 2011, 7.30pm with reading provided by Niklas Woermann
 
     
 

Past readings:

Reckwitz, A. (2002) "Towards a Theory of Social Practices: A Development of Culturalist Theorizing", European Journal of Social Theory, 5(2):243-63.

Jalas, M. (2006) Making time: Reciprocal object relations and the self-legitimising time of wooden boating, in Shove, Trentmann and Wilk, eds. Time, Consumption and Everyday Life: New Agendas and Directions. Berg.

Mol, A. (draft) Care and its values: good food in the nursing home Latour, B. (2004) Why has critique run out of steam? From matters of fact to matters of concern. Critical Inquiry, 30: 225-248

Shove, E. and Pantzar, M. (2005) "Consumers, Producers and Practices: Understanding the invention and reinvention of Nordic walking", Journal of Consumer Culture, 5:43-64.

Strauss, S. (2005) Positioning Yoga. Berg excerpts

Danyi, E. Parliament politics: an archaeology of a new democracy.

Mol, A. and Mesman, J. (1996) "Neonatal food and the politics of theory: some questions of method", Social Studies of Science, 26: 419-444

Keat, R. (2000) Cultural Goods and the Limits of the Market, MacMillan Press Ltd: Basingstoke & London. (Chapter 1)

MacIntyre, A. (1981) After Virtue, Duckworth: London. (Chapter 14)

Sayer, A. (2005) The Moral Significance of Class, Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. (Chapter 5)

Sudnow, D. (1993) Ways of the Hand: The Organization of Improvised Conduct, The MIT Press: Cambridge, Mass., London, England.

Gwynne, R. N. (2009). Creating palate geographies: Chilean wine and UK consumption spaces, Consuming space: placing consumption in perspective: King's College London.

Lefebvre, H. (2004) RhythmAnalysis, [Chapter 1] Continuum

Warde, A. (2005). Consumption and theories of practice. Journal of Consumer Culture, 5(2), 131-153.

Cheng, S.-L., Olsen, W., Southerton, D., & Warde, A. (2007). "The changing practice of eating: evidence from UK time diaries, 1975 and 2000." British Journal of Sociology, 58(1), 39-61.

Stengers, I. Ecology of Practices and Technology of Belonging, http://www.imbroglio.be/site/spip.php?article43

Research proposal for the project Alison Browne is working on.

Elizabeth’s book proposal ‘The Dynamics of Social Practice’, and draft chapter ‘Recruitment, Defection and Reproduction’.

Ingold, T. (2004) "Culture on the Ground: The World Perceived Through The Feet", Journal of Material Culture, v.9, pp315-340.

Ropke, I. (2009). "Theories of practice: new inspiration for ecological economic studies of consumption". Ecological Economics, 68, 2490-2497.

Lenneke Kuijer’s draft article ?Towards a practices-oriented design approach for sustainability: comparing different interpretations of practices-oriented design

Goodwin, C. (2000) "Action and embodiment within situated human interaction". Journal of Pragmatics, 32, 1489-1522.

Goffman, E. (1956). Presentation of self in everyday life. Carden City, NY: Doubleday Anchor Books. (Introduction)

Everyone brought articles written in 1959 in order to consider the context of Goffman’s work further (we mis-remembered the year it was published)

Merton, R. K. (1936) "The unanticipated consequences of purposive social action". American Sociological Review, 1(6), 984-904

Monopoly (with themed readings)

Laura Bang Lindegaard, draft paper: Conceptualisations of Everyday Domestic Heating and Transportation Practices

Hajer, Maarten A. (2005). "Coalitions, practices, and meaning in environmental politics: from acid rain to BSE" in Howarth and Torfing (eds.) Discourse theory in European politics: identity, policy and governance. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

Harrison, Paul (2009). "In the absence of practice". Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 27(6), 987-1009.

Feldman, M. (2000) "Organizational routines as a source of continuous change". Organization Science, 11(6), 611-629.