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oapen-20.500.12657-864772024-01-09T02:10:07Z Reflecting on Practices Landau-Donnelly, Friederike Carlsson, Hanna Lagendijk, Arnoud practice theory; post-foundationalism; social ontology of practices; praxeology; epistemology bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RG Geography::RGC Human geography bic Book Industry Communication::R Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning::RP Regional & area planning::RPC Urban & municipal planning bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBA Social theory This collection of essays aims to better understand what researchers do when they practice research. The team of contributors – which includes human geographers, urban planners and environmental scientists – expose various epistemological, ontological and methodological challenges to pin down what practices "are". The essays showcase how practice theory can help spatial scientists generate new and future-oriented insights on debates such as mobility, relationality, and forms of critical spatial practice. In this way, the book reinforces a specifically geographic and spatial account that is needed for the development of practice theory while also shining new light on current debates within practice theory on power, politics and space. The book positions practices as the point of departure to study and conceptualize socio-spatial life. 2024-01-08T13:07:15Z 2024-01-08T13:07:15Z 2024 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/86477 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781788215756_WEB.pdf https://www.agendapub.com/page/detail/reflecting-on-practices/?k=9781788215749 Agenda Publishing Limited ef9605b1-0be1-4afb-ab26-7b893f13b7d5 f8086bb3-4491-4846-8538-b72c95d76c0d 248 Newcastle upon Tyne Radboud Universiteit Radboud University open access
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This collection of essays aims to better understand what researchers do when they practice research. The team of contributors – which includes human geographers, urban planners and environmental scientists – expose various epistemological, ontological and methodological challenges to pin down what practices "are". The essays showcase how practice theory can help spatial scientists generate new and future-oriented insights on debates such as mobility, relationality, and forms of critical spatial practice. In this way, the book reinforces a specifically geographic and spatial account that is needed for the development of practice theory while also shining new light on current debates within practice theory on power, politics and space. The book positions practices as the point of departure to study and conceptualize socio-spatial life.
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