People can talk about their practices - A Special TCRU/NOVELLA Seminar (fully booked)
Date:
23/10/2012
Organised by:
Institute of Education
Presenter:
Dr. Russell Hitchings
Level:
Entry (no or almost no prior knowledge)
Contact:
Please contact Rowena Lamb on 020 7612 6921 / novella@ioe.ac.uk.
Location:
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Venue:
Institute of Education, University of London, 20 Bedford Way, London
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Description:
Dr. Russell Hitchings from the Department of Geography, University College London will present 'People can talk about their practices'. Following on from Elizabeth Shove's seminar on 16 October 2012, this talk considers the value of using interviews to research routine practices. Interviewing could easily be framed as inappropriate for this task, either because such practices are too difficult for respondents to talk about as a result of having sedimented down into unthinking forms of embodied disposition or because this method is out of step with a current enthusiasm for research styles that do not focus unduly on the representational. The discussion will start with how some key proponents of social practice theory have characterised the possibility of talking with people about these matters before turning to Dr Hitchings' own experience with two interview projects that attempted to do so inside city offices and older person households. He concludes that people can often talk in quite revealing ways about actions they may usually take as a matter of course and offers suggestions about how to encourage them.
Cost:
This event is free to attend.
Region:
Greater London
Keywords:
Narrative Methods
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