Practice and Materiality

Posted by Nancy Van House on August 04th 2011 to

About practice theory:

Schatzki, T. R. (2011) A primer on practices.

 Added 10/27 — both are in Dropbox

  • Theodore R Schatzki (2001) Introduction. Theodore R Schatzki, Karen Knorr Cetina, Eike von Savigny (2001) . The practice turn in contemporary theory p. 1-14  In dropbox as Schatzki 2 — I know, another Schatzki, but maybe more accessible
  • Sherry B Ortner (1989) High religion: a cultural and political history of Sherpa Buddhism. Princeton University Press.  Excerpt on Practice Theory. In Dropbox as Ortner.

 

 

Materiality:

 

Update 10/17:

Better than Miller: Shove, E., Watson, M., Hand, M., & Ingram, J. (2007). The design of everyday life. New York, NY: Berg. Chapter 1: The design of everyday life.

Read Shove instead, if you haven’t already read Miller.  Miller, Daniel.  (2005) Materiality: an Introduction.  In  MILLER, D. (2005) Materiality, Durham, N.C., Duke University Press.  In dropbox; sorry for the markup, but that’s my copy.


Recommended:

Postill, J. (2010) ‘Introduction: Theorising Media and Practice’. In: B. Bräuchler and J. Postill (eds) Theorising Media and Practice. Oxford and New York: Berghahn.   A little tangential but useful – reviews practice theory in the context of media practices.

 

 

 

 

 

Also Useful – FYI

Star, S. L., Bowker, G. C., & Neumann, L. J. (2003). Transparency beyond the individual level of scale: Convergence between information artifacts and communities of practice Digital library use: Social practice in design and evaluation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Harvey, F. (2000). The social construction of geographical information systems. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 14(8), 711-713.  If someone is interested in GIS and geo-location, there are more recent explorations.

Bowker, G. C. (2000). Mapping biodiversity. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 14(8), 739-754.

Berg, M. (1997). Of forms, containers, and the electronic medical record: some tools for a sociology of the formal. Science, Technology, and Human Values, 22(4), 403-433.

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