ABSTRACT

During the last few decades, temporalities, processual changes and material aspects of everyday life have become objects of interest in many social sciences. This chapter suggests that continuities exist between domestication views of the 1990s and practice-based approaches of more recent origin. Specifically, the succession from cultural studies to practice approaches is manifested in greater attention to objects and technologies as material forces and related competencies. In addition, practice-based views sensitize scholarly thinking about reproductive aspects of everyday life. Visible and non-visible practices require constant and active reproduction.