The Play of International Practice
Christian Bueger,Frank Gadinger +1 more
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
The core claims of the practice turn in International Relations (IR) remain ambiguous as discussed by the authors, and it is worth noting that practice approaches entail a distinctive view on the drivers of social relations, arguing against individualistic-interest and norm-based actor models.Abstract:
The core claims of the practice turn in International Relations (IR) remain ambiguous. What promises does international practice theory hold for the field? How does the kind of theorizing it produces differ from existing perspectives? What kind of research agenda does it produce? This article addresses these questions. Drawing on the work of Andreas Reckwitz, we show that practice approaches entail a distinctive view on the drivers of social relations. Practice theories argue against individualistic-interest and norm-based actor models. They situate knowledge in practice rather than “mental frames” or “discourse.” Practice approaches focus on how groups perform their practical activities in world politics to renew and reproduce social order. They therefore overcome familiar dualisms—agents and structures, subjects and objects, and ideational and material—that plague IR theory. Practice theories are a heterogeneous family, but, as we argue, share a range of core commitments. Realizing the promise of the practice turn requires considering the full spectrum of its approaches. However, the field primarily draws on trajectories in international practice theory that emphasize reproduction and hierarchies. It should pay greater attention to practice approaches rooted in pragmatism and that emphasize contingency and change. We conclude with an outline of core challenges that the future agenda of international practice theory must tackle.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Contestation ‘all the way down’? The grammar of contestation in norm research
TL;DR: The authors argue that the grammar of Wiener's approach, despite its reflexive starting point, ultimately reintroduces an understanding of norms as facts and leads to a normative "politics of reality".
Journal ArticleDOI
The Advent of Practice Theories in Research on Sustainable Consumption: Past, Current and Future Directions of the Field
TL;DR: In this article, the authors conduct a bibliometric analysis of applications of practice theories in the domain of sustainability research in consumer studies, and provide new insights into the evolution and future trends of application of social practice theory to domains that are relevant for research on sustainability and consumer studies.
Journal ArticleDOI
The Chain of Security
TL;DR: In this paper, the Chain of Security is defined as the set of practices whereby commercial transactions are collected, stored, transferred, and analyzed, in order to arrive at security facts.
Book
Scientific Cosmology and International Orders
TL;DR: Allan as mentioned in this paper argues that cosmological concepts arising from Western science made possible the shift from a sixteenth-century order premised upon divine providence to the present order centred on economic growth.
Journal ArticleDOI
Rethinking agency in International Relations: performativity, performances and actor-networks
TL;DR: The authors examines the emergence of international agency as an empirical phenomenon and discusses three social-theoretical traditions: poststructuralism, performance studies, and actor-network theory, and highlights four insights that emerge from the contributions and challenge how IR has traditionally imagined agency.
References
More filters
Book
Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity
TL;DR: Identity in practice, modes of belonging, participation and non-participation, and learning communities: a guide to understanding identity in practice.
Book
Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the difficulty of being an ANT and the difficulties of tracing the social networks of a social network and how to re-trace the social network.
Book
The interpretation of cultures: Selected essays
TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of the concept of culture on the concepts of man and the evolution of mind in Bali has been discussed in the context of an interpretive theory of culture.
Journal ArticleDOI
Toward a Theory of Social Practices A Development in Culturalist Theorizing
TL;DR: The main characteristics of practice theory, a type of social theory which has been sketched by such authors as Bourdieu, Giddens, Taylor, late Foucault and others, are discussed in this paper.