Nexus of practice : connections, constellations and practitioners.

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
	Guide for readers
		Suffusing
		Threading through
		Largeness
		Changing connections
		Practitioners
	Unfinished business
1 Learning in and across practices: Enablement as subjectivation
	Practice theories and learning
	Learning as a precondition and form of social membership
	Practice, learning and embodied reflexivity
	Enablement as subjectivation
	Conclusion
	Notes
2 Qualities of connective tissue in hospital life: How complexes of practices change
	Introduction
	(Inter)connections in complexes of practices
	Jurisdictional qualities
	Temporal qualities
	Material-spatial qualities
	Connective tissue: a method for understanding how complexes of practice change over time
	Conclusion
	Notes
3 Sociomateriality in posthuman practice theory
	Introduction
	Exploring the concept of sociomateriality
	Sociomateriality and bodily practices
	The sociomateriality of caring in the practice of artificial nutrition and its discourses
	Katrina, viscous porosity and situational entanglements
	Conclusions
	Acknowledgements
	Notes
4 Variation and the intersection of practices
	Variation within practices
		Variation as a basic feature
		Variation as meaningfully constructed
		Variation in the constituent elements of a performance
	Variation in relation to the nexus of practices
		Variation in terms of spatio-temporal intersections
		Variation in terms of practitioners or materials at the intersection of practices
		Variation in terms of groups and categories
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
5 Epigenetics, theories of social practice and lifestyle disease
	Introduction
	Epigenetics: what is it?
	Linking epigenetics and theories of social practice: points of intersection, tension and the role of bodies
	Obesity seen through the combined lens of epigenetics and social practices
	Intervening in lifestyle diseases: a social practice-epigenetic perspective
	Conclusion
	Notes
6 Technologies within and beyond practices
	Introduction
	Materials as elements of practice and beyond
	Modulating human participation: when machines ‘take over’
	Machine relations: conceptualising dark factories and central heating
		Extending practices: systems and constellations
		Human-technology relations
		Extended processes: patterns of temporal relations and material flows
	Shifting constellations: the distinctive dynamics of automated machines?
		Elements of systems
		Elements of constellations: reconfiguring temporal–material patterns
		Persistence and stability
		Standardisation
		Rate of change
		Irreversibility and transformation
	Discussion
	Notes
7 Is small the only beautiful?: Making sense of ‘large phenomena’ from a practice-based perspective
	On ‘large-scale phenomena’ and praxeology
		Practice approaches and the ‘macro’: flat ontologies and layered reality
		Not all flat ontologies are equal: individualism, situationalism and relationalism
	Three theory method packages through which to study large-scale phenomena from a practice-based perspective
		Large-scale phenomena as a fabric of interconnected practices: from metaphor to method
			Uncovering the interconnection between practices through systematic analysis
		Studying large-scale phenomena by rhizomatically following connections between trans-situated practices
		Examining the global in the local
		Studying scalography and playing with it
	Concluding remarks
	Notes
8 Practices and their affects
	The affects as blind spot
	Practice theory of affects
	Artefacts as generator of affect
	Notes
9 Sayings, texts and discursive formations
	The basic ontologies of three discourse analyses
	Elements of a practice theory of discourse
	Sayings and texts as connecting-and-threading-infrastructure
	Large discursive phenomena
	Notes
10 Reflexive knowledge in practices
	Praxeologisation
	Changing practices in professional football
		Strategies and techniques in data generation: scouting, writing and tracking
		Contexts and practices of using match analysis data
		(How) do match analyses change the game?
	Decentring the subject
		From methodological individualism to methodological situationalism
		From social actions to situated social practices
		From subjective meaning to the public nature of meaning
		From subjectivism to a critique of theoretical/scholastic reason
	Acknowledgements
	Notes
11 Matters of practice
	Material relations in practice
		Writing about things in the background
		Writing about things in action
		Writing about things that are used up
	Material relations in combination and in sequence
	Material relations in flux
	Material relations in time and space
	Discussion and conclusion
	Notes
12 Placing power in practice theory
	Is practice theory all about power?
	Power as effect
	How is the conduct of conduct practised?
	Placing power in practice theory?
	Acknowledgements
13 How should we understand ‘general understandings’?
	Introduction
	The category of general understandings
	General understandings, practical understandings and practical intelligibility
	General understandings and culture
	General understandings in action
	Conclusion
	Notes
References
Index