Author Archives: Simone Gristwood

Understanding buildings and their uses – John Connaughton

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Histories And Politics Of Infrastructure – Anna Carlsson-Hyslop

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Dynamics Of Household Energy Consumption – Frank Trentmann

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Infrastructure And Careers – Nicola Spurling

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Practices and large social phenomena. Ted Schatzki

In brief, Ted's argument was this:  there is a tendency to equate a focus on social practices with a focus on the small scale, and with fine grained ethnographic research.   In contrast Ted argued that there is no reason why theories of practice should not provide compelling and persuasive accounts of ‘large’ scale social phenomena – including markets, forms of governance, and big…

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