ABSTRACT
Practice theory has until now stood out primarily through the sensitivity that its analyses show to the material conveyors, carriers and elements of social practices (things, artefacts, technologies, bodies). Social practices might – to put it concisely – be defined as processing activities that are conveyed, situated, materially embedded, distributed and interconnected through cultural knowledge and skilled body movements. Definitions of this sort are closely linked to praxeological critiques of mentalistic and cognitivistic approaches and have led practice theory to neglect mental elements of practices as well as the reflexive or theoretical forms of knowledge that are integrated into practices.1 Practice theorists, therefore, still need to uncover precisely how reflexive, theoretical and analytical activities are enmeshed in and contribute to both practical processes and the dynamics and transformations of practices.
