Practice Reloaded: A Statement, an Acknowledgment and a Comment

Attila Bruni

doi:10.6092/issn.1971-8853/10219

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Attila Bruni Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4561-0780
Attila Bruni is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology and Social Research of the Trento University, where he teaches Sociology of Organizations and Sociology of Technological Phenomena. He has been President of the Italian Society for Science and Technology Studies (www.stsitalia.org) between 2010 and 2013, and member of the Council of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (www.easst.org) between 2010 and 2018. He is actually the coordinator of the Research Unit on Communication, Organizational Learning and Aesthetics (www.unitn.it/rucola) of the Department of Sociology and Social Research of the Trento University.

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https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1971-8853/10219

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practice theory, science and technology studies, organization studies, power

Abstract

This article is a comment to the Symposium on the Contamination of Practices. It starts by presenting a concise picture of the adoption of the idea of practice in Science & Technology Studies and Organization Studies and then it offers some remarks on several of the articles included in the Symposium.

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