How to Conduct a Practice-based Study. Problems and Methods: Third Edition - Silvia Gherardi

Responding to the recent de-anthropocentric ‘re-turn’ of practice-based studies, Gherardi considers the search for non-rationalist and non-cognitivist approaches to the process of working and organizing. With fully updated chapters throughout, this third edition further elaborates on a posthumanist theory of practice, providing a guiding compass for understanding how humans and more-than-humans interact within working practices. Chapters highlight the sociomateriality of practicing and the role of vibrant materiality, emphasising the researchers’ bodily capacity of affecting and being affected while conducting fieldwork as insiders of the practices they study.

This is a vital resource for any scholars of practice theories, especially those interested in posthumanist practice theory, as well as management and organizational studies. Postgraduate students and early-career researchers seeking insight into the development of practice-based studies will also find this book indispensable.