Pathways to practice: praxiography and international politics
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Pathways to practice : praxiography and international politics. / Bueger, Christian.
In: European Political Science Review, Vol. 6, No. 03, 01.08.2014, p. 383-406.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Pathways to practice
T2 - praxiography and international politics
AU - Bueger, Christian
PY - 2014/8/1
Y1 - 2014/8/1
N2 - Political scientists have started to focus on 'practice' as the smallest unit of analysis. Following a broader turn in the social sciences, the practice focus provides multiple advantages, including better conceptualizations of short-term social change, getting closer to the everyday activities of those speaking, writing and doing politics, appropriate conceptualization of agency-structure dynamics, or forms of analysis resonating with other communities than scholarly ones. This contribution asks what the methodological implications of the practice turn are. It is argued that the practice focus does not only imply a certain 'theory' but also a certain methodology. I advance the term praxiography to speak about the forms of analysis produced by practice researchers. I discuss key guidelines of praxiographic research on two levels: first, general research strategies that provide empirical access points, second, guidelines for data collection in the frame of participant observation, expert interviews, and document analysis. I conclude in arguing that although praxiography is context driven, and hence requires to be tailored to the research problem, it is vital to reflect on the methodological repertoire of praxiographic research
AB - Political scientists have started to focus on 'practice' as the smallest unit of analysis. Following a broader turn in the social sciences, the practice focus provides multiple advantages, including better conceptualizations of short-term social change, getting closer to the everyday activities of those speaking, writing and doing politics, appropriate conceptualization of agency-structure dynamics, or forms of analysis resonating with other communities than scholarly ones. This contribution asks what the methodological implications of the practice turn are. It is argued that the practice focus does not only imply a certain 'theory' but also a certain methodology. I advance the term praxiography to speak about the forms of analysis produced by practice researchers. I discuss key guidelines of praxiographic research on two levels: first, general research strategies that provide empirical access points, second, guidelines for data collection in the frame of participant observation, expert interviews, and document analysis. I conclude in arguing that although praxiography is context driven, and hence requires to be tailored to the research problem, it is vital to reflect on the methodological repertoire of praxiographic research
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Methodology
KW - practice theory
KW - research strategy
KW - sites
KW - participant observation
U2 - 10.1017/S1755773913000167
DO - 10.1017/S1755773913000167
M3 - Journal article
VL - 6
SP - 383
EP - 406
JO - European Political Science Review
JF - European Political Science Review
SN - 1755-7739
IS - 03
ER -
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