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TY - CHAP
T1 - Seeing Wood for the Trees
T2 - Placing Biological Processes Within Practices of Heating and Harvesting
AU - Rinkinen, Jenny Maria
PY - 2018/7/20
Y1 - 2018/7/20
N2 - This chapter aims to move towards a ‘biological’ understanding of materiality within theories of practice. Recognising that the biological and social are part of an intertwined process of becoming, the chapter argues for a turn from the “objectness” of things to the material flows and formative processes wherein they come into being. In reflecting upon such a turn, Rinkinen draws from the examples of wood management and small-scale wood-based space heating practices, to emphasise wood as a living organism and distinctive material element of practice. Recognising that practices not only demand resources, but interact with them in a constitutive manner, helps comprehend how practices are anchored in the material world.
AB - This chapter aims to move towards a ‘biological’ understanding of materiality within theories of practice. Recognising that the biological and social are part of an intertwined process of becoming, the chapter argues for a turn from the “objectness” of things to the material flows and formative processes wherein they come into being. In reflecting upon such a turn, Rinkinen draws from the examples of wood management and small-scale wood-based space heating practices, to emphasise wood as a living organism and distinctive material element of practice. Recognising that practices not only demand resources, but interact with them in a constitutive manner, helps comprehend how practices are anchored in the material world.
KW - materiality
KW - biological process
KW - wood
KW - social practice
KW - demand
KW - energy
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-92189-1_3
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-92189-1_3
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9783319921884
SP - 47
EP - 62
BT - Social Practices and Dynamic Non-Humans
A2 - Maller, Cecily
A2 - Strengers, Yolande
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
ER -