{"id":205,"date":"2008-08-22T22:05:28","date_gmt":"2008-08-23T03:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=205"},"modified":"2011-11-05T23:40:30","modified_gmt":"2011-11-06T04:40:30","slug":"practices-and-regimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2008\/08\/22\/practices-and-regimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Practices and Regimes"},"content":{"rendered":"

A very simple paradigm<\/strong> for our objects of investigation in general, namely, the transformation and\/or stabilization of regimes and practices.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Conditions of possibility and impossibility of regimes and practices demands setting out 4 ontological dimensions of social reality<\/span>:\u00a0 SOCIAL, POLITICAL, IDEOLOGICAL and ETHICAL dimensions. 104
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103 The simple paradigm: the transformation and\/or stabilization of regimes and practices<\/p>\n

A dislocatory experience, major economic depression, closing factories, spiralling inflation, rise in crime and social disorder etc. Social actors can interpret and respond in a variety of ways: passive resignation, despair and alienation, mounting anger leading to new grievances which can be articulated as claims and demands with latter may even lead to construction of new identities and subjectivities “Indeed there may emerge a radical political subjectivity and ideology that seeks to transform social relations along fundamentally different lines.\u00a0 Equally, of course, these developments may provoke renewed efforts by power holders and political elites to meet or deflect claims and demands, thus channelling and reshaping the grievances into the existing institutions and structures of power” (104).<\/p>\n

A <\/span>dislocatory experience such as a an economic depression may thus reveal the contingency of taken-for-granted social practices, highlighting the fact that the existing system represents only one way of organizing social relations amongst others.<\/span><\/p>\n

[T]he way the dislocation is constructed and enacted does not follow from the simple fact of dislocation.<\/strong><\/span> It may be gentrified (or absorbed) by an existing social practice or regime, or it may provoke a political practice (112).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[D]islocation can be understood as a moment when the subject’s mode of being is experienced as disrupted.\u00a0 In this sense, then, we could say that dislocations are those occasions when a subject is called upon to confront the contingency of social relations more directly than at other times (110).<\/p>\n

Social Practices:<\/span><\/h3>\n

ongoing, routinized forms of human and societal reproduction, repetitive activities that do not typically entail a strong notion of self-conscious reflexivity — what we might term a series of sedimented practices — which have been inscribed on our bodies and ingrained in our human dispositions – making breakfast, taking children to school, drving to work<\/p>\n

Every social practice is also articulatory,<\/em> that is all social practices comprise temporal and iterative activities, each iteration is slightly different each time requiring minor modifications and adjustments …<\/p>\n

Dislocation can provoke political practices<\/strong><\/p>\n

Political Practices:<\/span><\/h3>\n

struggles that seek to challenge and transform the existing norms, institutions and practices — perhaps even the regime itself in the name of an ideal or principle.\u00a0 Political practices bring about a transformative effect on existing social practices, or entire regime of practices, “resulting in the institution and sedimentation of a new regime and the social practices that comprise it” (105).<\/p>\n

Regimes:<\/span><\/strong> have a structuring function in the sense that they order a system of social practices<\/em>, thus helping us to characterize the latter.\u00a0 A regime is always a regime of<\/em> practices. The Thatcher regime, for example, comprises a heterogeneous set of practices linked to welfare, business, the passage of legislation<\/p>\n

Regime<\/strong>
\n(Order, system, discursive formation)<\/p>\n

structuration \u00a0 hegemony<\/p>\n

Social practices\u00a0 <—————————-> <\/strong>Political practices<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A very simple paradigm for our objects of investigation in general, namely, the transformation and\/or stabilization of regimes and practices. Conditions of possibility and impossibility of regimes and practices demands setting out 4 ontological dimensions of social reality:\u00a0 SOCIAL, POLITICAL, IDEOLOGICAL and ETHICAL dimensions. 104 103 The simple paradigm: the transformation and\/or stabilization of regimes … Continue reading “Practices and Regimes”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,40,16,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dislocation","category-lack","category-ontology","category-practices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}