The Nexus of Practices

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<EM>The Nexus of Practices: connections, constellations, practitioners</EM> brings leading theorists of practice together to provide a fresh set of theoretical impulses for the surge of practice-focused studies currently sweeping across the social disciplines. The book addresses key issues facing practice theory, expands practice theory¿s conceptual repertoire, and explores new empirical terrain. With each intellectual move, it generates further opportunities for social research. <P>More specifically, the book¿s chapters offer new approaches to analysing connections within the nexus of practices, to exploring the dynamics and implications of the constellations that practices form, and to understanding people as practitioners that carry on practices. Topics examined include social change, language, power, affect, reflection, large social phenomena, and connectivity over time and space. Contributors thereby counter claims that practice theory cannot handle large phenomena and that it ign