Practicing History: New Directions in Historical Writing after the Linguistic Turn

BOOK COVER......Page 1
HALF-TITLE......Page 2
TITLE......Page 5
COPYRIGHT......Page 6
CONTENTS......Page 7
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 9
SERIES EDITOR’S PREFACE......Page 13
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 16
INTRODUCTION......Page 17
Background......Page 18
History and semiotics......Page 21
The cultural turn......Page 23
The revisionist critique......Page 25
Discourse......Page 26
Self, subjectivity, and agency......Page 27
Experience and practice......Page 33
Practicing history/theorizing practice......Page 38
NOTES......Page 41
Part I DISCOURSE AND THE PROBLEM OF SOCIAL HISTORY......Page 48
1 IS ALL THE WORLD A TEXT? FROM SOCIAL HISTORY TO THE HISTORY OF SOCIETY TWO DECADES LATER......Page 49
In the beginning......Page 50
The current landscape......Page 52
All the world’s a text......Page 55
Turning to history......Page 61
Conclusion......Page 66
NOTES......Page 68
REFERENCES......Page 72
2 THE DETERMINIST FIX......Page 78
NOTES......Page 89
3 THE CONCEPT(S) OF CULTURE......Page 92
What do we mean by culture?......Page 95
Culture as a category of social life......Page 96
Culture as system and practice......Page 100
The autonomy of culture......Page 101
Cultures as distinct worlds of meaning......Page 104
How coherence is possible......Page 107
NOTES......Page 109
Part II SELF AND AGENCY......Page 112
The Discursive Condition......Page 113
Anthematic subjectivity in the Discursive Condition......Page 116
Political practice in the discursive condition......Page 119
NOTES......Page 123
5 INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCE AND CULTURAL ORDER......Page 125
Utilitarian individualism and cultural determinism......Page 126
Intention and convention......Page 128
Dialectics of structure and action......Page 130
NOTE......Page 134
6 THE CONSTITUTION OF SOCIETY: OUTLINE OF THE THEORY OF STRUCTURATION......Page 135
The agent, agency......Page 139
Agency and power......Page 141
Structure, structuration......Page 143
The duality of structure......Page 149
Forms of institution......Page 150
A reiteration of basic concepts15......Page 153
NOTES......Page 156
7 A THEORY OF STRUCTURE......Page 157
The duality of structure: a critique and reformulation of Giddens’s theory......Page 159
What is structure?......Page 160
Structures as rules......Page 161
Structures as resources......Page 163
Structures as schemas and resources......Page 164
The duality of schemas and resources......Page 166
Duality and stasis......Page 167
Why structural change is possible......Page 168
Agency......Page 172
Varieties of structures......Page 173
NOTES......Page 176
REFERENCES......Page 177
8 HOW TO BE AN INTENTIONALIST......Page 179
Outside the text......Page 180
Beliefs as intentional states......Page 183
Some answers......Page 185
NOTES......Page 187
Part III EXPERIENCE AND PRACTICE......Page 189
9 OUTLINE OF THE THEORY OF PRACTICE......Page 190
Structures, habitus and practices......Page 193
The dialectic of objectification and embodiment......Page 200
NOTES......Page 207
10 THE EVIDENCE OF EXPERIENCE......Page 211
Becoming visible......Page 212
The authority of experience......Page 216
Historicizing “experience”......Page 222
Conclusion......Page 224
NOTES......Page 226
11 THE PRACTICE OF EVERYDAY LIFE......Page 229
Use, or consumption......Page 230
Strategies and tactics......Page 233
The rhetorics of practice, ancient ruses......Page 236
NOTES......Page 238
12 LANGUAGE AND THE SHIFT FROM SIGNS TO PRACTICES IN CULTURAL INQUIRY......Page 240
The formalizing premise......Page 241
The essentializing premise......Page 243
The turn in method......Page 245
The incomplete premises of the model of culture as a sign system......Page 247
The counter-proposals of culture in practice......Page 251
NOTES......Page 253
13 TOWARD A THEORY OF SOCIAL PRACTICES......Page 257
Practice theory as cultural theory......Page 259
Four versions of cultural theory: mentalism, textualism, intersubjectivism, practice theory......Page 261
Body......Page 264
Mind......Page 265
Things......Page 266
Knowledge......Page 267
Discourse/Language......Page 268
The agent/Individual......Page 269
The effects of practice theory......Page 270
NOTES......Page 272
REFERENCES......Page 274
General readings......Page 276
Discourse/Social and cultural history......Page 277
Experience and practice......Page 279
INDEX......Page 281