Knowing-in-Practice, Its Traces and Ingredients
A new Open Access book chapter by Isto, Olle and Lisa "Knowing-in-Practice, Its Traces and Ingredients" has just appeared in an edited volume "The Posthumanist Epistemology of Practice Theory" (Cozza & Gherardi).
The chapter inquires into how two specific types of epistemic artefacts—traces and ingredients—work together and against each other in conveying understanding of past knowledge-making activities. The discussion draws from an analysis of Swedish and French archaeological investigation reports and from how they, as traces and ingredients, contribute to knowing-in-practice in multiple parallel ways as a part of archaeological practice—literally in practice. Traces and ingredients have different epistemic opportunities and limitations to act as records of the past and goads to action even if many traces can act as ingredients and vice versa albeit with certain limitations that are useful to be aware of. Being aware of how an epistemic artefact works in an epistemic sense—for example as a trace or an ingredient—can help to use them accordingly to what they are capable of, to avoid uses that go against their potential, and to develop better ones.
Citation: Huvila, Isto, Olle Sköld, and Lisa Andersson. 2023. ”Knowing-in-practice, its traces and ingredients”. In The Posthumanist Epistemology of Practice Theory: Re-imagining Method in Organization Studies and Beyond, redigerad av Michela Cozza och Silvia Gherardi, 37–69. Cham: Palgrave MacMillan.
Full text of the chapter can be read at SpringerLink.