Abstract
This chapter (Sects. 5.1–5.5) addresses the way practices unfold at various scales, sometimes in vast webs, constellations or ecologies of interconnected practices. These sections intend to convey the notion that, while practices may appear to unfold in entirely local sites, they nevertheless connect with other practices to form larger and larger webs that have ramifications for history and nature.
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Notes
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My wife Roslin Brennan Kemmis died in July 2015, having been a part of PEP from its beginning.
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Haug (1907) used the term to describe female sexualisation —how girls and young women were shaped by their participation in family and community life to understand themselves as sexual beings. The group of young women Haug worked with in this study reported their experiences of such moments in their lives as ‘the first kiss’ or ‘the first bra’, and were surprised to discover how such experiences, that had seemed intimate and unique to their own experience, were in fact common. Haug argues that autobiographical methods make their subjects the heroes and victims in their own lives; the approach of ‘memory work ’ shows how individuals’ experiences are often part of a social world, and social circumstances, that can affect people in broadly similar ways.
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For an intriguing argument that the different kinds and roles of individual termites in a termite mound fit together to carry out the functions––like eating, defence, sexual reproduction—of other animals, see the wonderfully engaging The Soul of the White Ant by Eugène Marais (1937/2009).
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Finkelberg (2017, pp. 154–155) cites Plato, Aristotle and Plutarch as sources for this quotation from Heraclitus (b. Ephesus 541 BC, d. 484 BC).
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My thanks to Ted Schatzki for this soubriquet for Lexington, and for saving me from the egregious error of naming Lexington as the home of the Kentucky Derby (it is in fact run in Louisville, Kentucky).
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