What’s the Theory in International Practice Theory?
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What’s the Theory in International Practice Theory? / Adler-Nissen, Rebecca.
2015.Research output: Other contribution › Net publication - Internet publication › Communication
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TY - ICOMM
T1 - What’s the Theory in International Practice Theory?
AU - Adler-Nissen, Rebecca
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Is there a theory in practice theory? Responding to Bueger and Gadinger’s excellent article, I agree that practice theory is indeed a theory – or a rather a bundle of theories – that can help explain world politics. Bueger and Gadinger distinguish between critical theory and pragmatism as practice theory’s intellectual roots, but as I will argue below, this distinction has drawbacks. I therefore propose a different categorization – between what I call the ‘ordering’ (how practices stabilize the world) and the ‘disordering’ (how practices destabilize the world) perspectives on practices. This distinction is crucial to determining where we look for practices in international relations and how we study them. I will also argue that symbolic interactionism should be included in the practice theory landscape, as it can help us understand the making and unmaking of international orders.
AB - Is there a theory in practice theory? Responding to Bueger and Gadinger’s excellent article, I agree that practice theory is indeed a theory – or a rather a bundle of theories – that can help explain world politics. Bueger and Gadinger distinguish between critical theory and pragmatism as practice theory’s intellectual roots, but as I will argue below, this distinction has drawbacks. I therefore propose a different categorization – between what I call the ‘ordering’ (how practices stabilize the world) and the ‘disordering’ (how practices destabilize the world) perspectives on practices. This distinction is crucial to determining where we look for practices in international relations and how we study them. I will also argue that symbolic interactionism should be included in the practice theory landscape, as it can help us understand the making and unmaking of international orders.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Practice Theory
KW - Praksis
KW - International Relations Theory
KW - IP-teori
KW - Practice turn
KW - symbolic interactionism
KW - Methodology
KW - Practice Theory
KW - Practice turn
KW - International Relations Theory
KW - Methodology
KW - symbolic interactionism
KW - Power
KW - everyday
KW - everyday life
M3 - Net publication - Internet publication
ER -
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