Reflecting on Practices, New Directions for Spatial Theories

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Reflecting on Practices, New Directions for Spatial Theories

Year

2024

Publisher

Agenda Publishing

Language

English

Pages

ISBN

978-1-78821-575-6

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17-Nov-2025

Keywords

Population Studies ; Public Policy & Administration ; sustainability-discipline ; Environmental Studies ; Sociology ; Urban Studies ; Philosophy

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Resulting from years of active debates among the contributors, and constructive dialogues with reviewers and the publisher, this book presents a bundle of essays advancing practice theory through doing it empirically, reflecting on it theoretically and engaging with it more poetically. Our dialogue was prompted, in particular, by our search for what practice theory could mean for our critical and often activist engagement with geography and planning. All chapters thus yield a message for practice theory, albeit with much diversity and intensity. Here, we present our problematization and synthesis.

In the past few decades, practice theory has garnered increased academic...