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Kommentar
The practice turn has become established in political science and International Relations (IR) research as one of the most innovative research programs in the field. Practice-oriented scholars explore different fields of world politics, such as diplomacy, counter-terrorism, peacebuilding, right-wing populism, climate activism, and global finance, to analyze how governing practices (re)produce order and change. From such a point of view, governing is understood as a material activity (e.g. negotiating, cooperating, protesting) performed by a variety of political actors in and through practice in everyday life. This research perspective emphasizes many dimensions that remain rather underexplored in IR such as the significance of practical knowledge (a sense for the ‘rules of the game’), the role of routines and rituals, the importance of objects (e.g. indicators), visuality (e.g. social media), technology (e.g. algorithms), and the embodiment of practices. Governing practices in everyday life lie at the center of analysis: surveillance techniques, bureaucratic procedures around migration and asylum politics, new forms of protest in climate activism, joint working procedures in diplomatic negotiations and so on. In the first part of the seminar, the conceptual background of the practice turn are introduced, and the implications of focusing on governing practices in research are examined. In the second part, students obtain an overview of various policy fields and the governing practices that are particularly relevant. Students therefore familiarize themselves with the conceptual vocabulary of the most promising approaches in practice research (e.g. Bourdieu’s social theory, actor-network and assemblage theory, narrative analysis, community of practice approach etc.) and learn how governing practices can be studied through various methods (e.g. praxiography, participant observation, field work, interviews, visual analysis etc.). The major aim of the seminar is to encourage students to work with practice approaches as an innovative research perspective in IR and governance research, and to develop their own ideas for studying governing practices in concrete empirical cases.

Comment
The practice turn has become established in political science and International Relations (IR) research as one of the most innovative research programs in the field. Practice-oriented scholars explore different fields of world politics, such as diplomacy, counter-terrorism, peacebuilding, right-wing populism, climate activism, and global finance, to analyze how governing practices (re)produce order and change. From such a point of view, governing is understood as a material activity (e.g. negotiating, cooperating, protesting) performed by a variety of political actors in and through practice in everyday life. This research perspective emphasizes many dimensions that remain rather underexplored in IR such as the significance of practical knowledge (a sense for the ‘rules of the game’), the role of routines and rituals, the importance of objects (e.g. indicators), visuality (e.g. social media), technology (e.g. algorithms), and the embodiment of practices. Governing practices in everyday life lie at the center of analysis: surveillance techniques, bureaucratic procedures around migration and asylum politics, new forms of protest in climate activism, joint working procedures in diplomatic negotiations and so on. In the first part of the seminar, the conceptual background of the practice turn are introduced, and the implications of focusing on governing practices in research are examined. In the second part, students obtain an overview of various policy fields and the governing practices that are particularly relevant. Students therefore familiarize themselves with the conceptual vocabulary of the most promising approaches in practice research (e.g. Bourdieu’s social theory, actor-network and assemblage theory, narrative analysis, community of practice approach etc.) and learn how governing practices can be studied through various methods (e.g. praxiography, participant observation, field work, interviews, visual analysis etc.). The major aim of the seminar is to encourage students to work with practice approaches as an innovative research perspective in IR and governance research, and to develop their own ideas for studying governing practices in concrete empirical cases.

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