Sustainable Consumption Institute

The Nexus of Practices: connections, constellations, practitioners 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.

Abstract                                                                                                                  

Schatzki’s (2002) concept of “general understandings”, a category within his schema of practice components, has received marginal critical attention. The concept promises to deal with diffuse cultural conceptions which transcend the boundaries between integrative practices. Schatzki’s use of the concept is explored, along with its relation to “teleoaffective structures”, “teleoaffective regimes”, “practical understandings” and “practical intelligibility” (Schatzki, 2002). We suggest the role general understandings may play in cultural analysis and identify general features through examples: they may emerge from discourse or praxis and have both tacit and discursive elements; and they circulate between integrative practices through typical processes and mechanisms.

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