The search for dialogue as a hindrance to understanding: practices as inter-paradigmatic research program
(2014) In International Theory 6(1). p.1-27- Abstract
- In a recent article Emanuel Adler and Vincent Pouliot argued that attention to 'practices' could help IR scholars overcome ontological gaps and provide a new basis, on which the discipline could be established. Four such dichotomies are particularly salient: between the material and the meaningful, the rational and the practical, between agencies and structures, and between the forces of stability and of change. By failing to provide a theoretical basis for a synthesis, however, this project will fail. What a 'practice' is, and how ontological gaps should be understood, cannot be determined outside of the context of a theory. The article reviews theoretical attempts to deal with the dichotomies Adler and Pouliot identified and investigates... (More)
- In a recent article Emanuel Adler and Vincent Pouliot argued that attention to 'practices' could help IR scholars overcome ontological gaps and provide a new basis, on which the discipline could be established. Four such dichotomies are particularly salient: between the material and the meaningful, the rational and the practical, between agencies and structures, and between the forces of stability and of change. By failing to provide a theoretical basis for a synthesis, however, this project will fail. What a 'practice' is, and how ontological gaps should be understood, cannot be determined outside of the context of a theory. The article reviews theoretical attempts to deal with the dichotomies Adler and Pouliot identified and investigates the role of practices in the study of international relations. (Less)
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- Ringmar, Erik LU
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- 2014
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- Contribution to journal
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- published
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- keywords
- practices, practice theory, tacit knowledge, Pierre Bourdieu, ontology, paradigm
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- International Theory
- volume
- 6
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 1 - 27
- publisher
- Cambridge University Press
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- wos:000339505100001
- scopus:84902199585
- ISSN
- 1752-9719
- DOI
- 10.1017/S1752971913000316
- language
- English
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- yes
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- 49a3b280-0d6d-405f-983b-f46256bc83ab (old id 4591730)
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