Reflecting on Practices

Friederike Landau-Donnelly is Assistant Professor for Cultural Geography at Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen. She is the author of Agonistic Articulations in the 'Creative' City: On New Actors and Activism in Berlin’s Urban Cultural Politics (2019) and (Un)Grounding: Post-Foundational Geographies (2021). Hanna Carlsson is Assistant Professor in Public Administration at Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen. Arnoud Lagendijk is Professor of Economic Geography at Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen.

The radically diverse contributions to this collection provide so much to think with. From essayistic reflection through dedicated analysis of generally dynamic and contested empirical topics, to theoretical exposition, the volume overall confronts tensions and gaps in current work with practice theories and makes contributions to current frontiers of theoretical development in the field.

• 1 Introduction, Hanna Carlsson, Arnoud Lagendijk and Friederike Landau-DonnellyPart I Struggling empirically towards transformation2 Sports and space invaders: practice theoretical tools to understand change towards inclusion, Hanna Carlsson3 Practices and power in processes of transformative change: the example of “Recognition and Rewards” at Dutch universities, Arnoud Lagendijk and Mark Wiering4 Transnational developmental practices of diasporas in postwar Sri Lanka, Mohamed Munas and Lothar SmithPart II Essays on practicing contested everyday life5 Practicing post-foundationalism: encountering conflict and contingency in pandemic everyday life, Friederike Landau-Donnelly and Lucas Pohl6 Emergent and stranded practices: infrastructuring parental spaces as anti-deportation protests, Joris Schapendonk7 Practicing Covid quarantine, Olivier Thomas KramschPart III Theorising new phenomena and practices8 Counter-actualizing privacy: from metric panopticons through boundary interpretations to “veillance practices”, Freek de Haan9 Praxeological field research: analysing the co-production of social phenomena and individual agency, Klaus Geiselhart, Simon Runkel, Susann Schäfer and Benedikt Schmid10 A practice for the “perpetual pursuit of unknowable novelty”, Peter Ache11 The practice of practice theories: a critically reflexive contribution to the debate, Huib Ernste12 Concluding thoughts, Friederike Landau-Donnelly, Hanna Carlsson and Arnoud Lagendijk