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Appel à article du Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies | Août 2015Over the last decades practice based approaches to the study of organizations, working life and work place learning has become increasingly popular among researchers. Characteristic of these approaches is an emphasis on the productive and reproductive features of activity as constitutive elements in bringing about, stabilizing and changing social order. In this perspective activity is not simply conceived as the sum of individual (inter)actions but also as an encompassing, potent and responsive order that morphs and shapes conduct. Thus these approaches see social practices – i.e. bundles of human activity –as the central unit of analysis. This ‘turn to practices’ has led many work life researchers to discard traditional social science dichotomies of structure/agency, macro/micro, physical/mental, outer/inner, rational actors/cultural dopes. Instead, the practice based approaches focuses on action intelligibility – how people respond to the actual conditions they encounter, and how they on a step by step basis tries to make sense of their experiences and give meaning to their worlds.The ‘practice turn’ is – of course – not an entirely new phenomenon. Rather it describes a synthesizing theoretical and methodological approach to the study of human activity and social transformation. It draws heavily on insights and ideas from such diverse traditions as Wittgensteinian, Heideggerian and Deweyian philosophy, Marxist social theory, activity theory, ethnomethodology, feminism, situated learning, poststructuralist discourse theory, science and technology studies and many more. However, recently authors like Davide Nicolini (2013), Silvia Gherardi (2012) and others have made efforts to synthesize elements from these traditions in order to suggest practice-based conceptual and methodological frameworks for the study of working life. (...)Lire la suite : http://www.nordicwl.com/Date limite de soumission des propositions : 1er janvier 2015