1st Edition

Praxeological Political Analysis

Edited By Michael Jonas, Beate Littig Copyright 2017
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

With the interest in practice theory and praxeology on the rise, praxeology can be considered an emerging new methodological as well as theoretical paradigm which successfully overcomes epistemological dichotomies of conventional approaches. The articles in this volume serve as starting points for rendering contemporary practice theory approaches useful for the analysis of political events and... Read more
Introduction  Chapter 1. A Praxeological Political Analysis – An Introduction (Michael Jonas and Beate Littig)  Part I: Developments and Issues in Practice Theory  Chapter 2. Multiplicity in Social Theory and Practice Ontology (Theodore Schatzki)  Chapter 3. From the Philosophy of Practice to the Sociology of Practice (Craig Browne)  Chapter 4. How the Senses organise the Social (Andreas Reckwitz)  Chapter 5. Critique in Praxis. Arguments for a Subjectivation Theoretical Expansion on Practice Theory (Thomas Alkemeyer, Nikolaus Buschmann and Matthias Michaeler)  Part II: Praxeological Analysis of Political Relations and Processes  Chapter 6. International Practice Theories (Christian Bueger and Frank Gadinger)  Chapter 7. Totality and Practices: The Dangers of Empiricism and the Promise of a ‘Logic of Reconstruction’ in Practise-based Research (Kai Koddenbrock)  Chapter 8. Transition or Transformation? A Plea for the Praxeological Approach of Radical Socio-Ecological Change (Michael Jonas)  Chapter 9. Challenges to changing Unreflected Practices – A Discussion of the Limits of Policies to initiate Change from a Praxeological Perspective (Angela Wroblewski)  Chapter 10. The Visual Diffusion of Political Practices (Tanja Pritzlaff-Scheele)  Chapter 11. Making Differences. Racism and Anti-Racism in White Feminist Activism (Stefanie Mayer)  Part III: Conclusion  Chapter 12. Benefits and Potentials of a Praxeological Political Analysis (Michael Jonas and Beate Littig)

Biography

Dr Michael Jonas is a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria.



Dr Beate Littig is a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Austria.