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\"Stefan Stefan Beck was a founding member of the Lab. His work as a Professor of European Ethnology was primarily concerned with relational thinking in anthropology, practice theory and questions of knowledge, expertise and technology. He conducted fieldwork over the last 20 years in Cyprus. He had been a professor at the Institute for European Ethnology at Humboldt-Universit\u00e4t zu Berlin since 2003, and had previously been a research fellow there since 1998.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Sadly, Stefan Beck died on the 26th<\/sup> of March 2015.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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2017<\/h3>

J\u00f6rg Niew\u00f6hner, Stefan Beck<\/p>

Embodying Practices: The Human Body as Matter (of Concern) in Social Thought<\/a> Book Section<\/span> <\/p>

In: <\/span>Michael Jonas, Beate Littig, Angela Wroblewski (Ed.): Practice Theories and Their Methodologies, <\/span>pp. 63\u201377, <\/span>Springer, <\/span>2017<\/span>.<\/p>

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\r\nabstract = {Recent developments in molecular biology and the neurosciences on body\u2013environment interaction and interdependence have led the natural sciences to prominently challenge the social sciences to refurbish some of the central elements of their theoretical apparatus and enter into joined empirical research. In the neurosciences, and departing from older perspectives, perception, cognition and knowledge are increasingly seen as integral elements of action, dynamically situating\/embedding \u2018cognitive agents\u2019 in their socio-cultural-natural environments. Likewise, recent research in epigenetics suggests that bodily practices, shaped by their social and material environments within which they are performed, imprint a body that becomes highly susceptible to both past \u2018experiences\u2019 of and to present changes in its social and material environment. In this chapter, we critically review the research (practices) that prompted this challenge and discuss how it affects, but does not consider, social theories of interaction, habituation and inheritance. In a second step, we develop a social and practice theory on the basis of a co-laborative research agenda of \u2018embodied practice\u2019 that stresses the somatic context, performativity, historicity and dynamic situativity of embedded bodies. Finally, we discuss the theoretical and methodological implications of such an endeavour.},
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Recent developments in molecular biology and the neurosciences on body\u2013environment interaction and interdependence have led the natural sciences to prominently challenge the social sciences to refurbish some of the central elements of their theoretical apparatus and enter into joined empirical research. In the neurosciences, and departing from older perspectives, perception, cognition and knowledge are increasingly seen as integral elements of action, dynamically situating\/embedding \u2018cognitive agents\u2019 in their socio-cultural-natural environments. Likewise, recent research in epigenetics suggests that bodily practices, shaped by their social and material environments within which they are performed, imprint a body that becomes highly susceptible to both past \u2018experiences\u2019 of and to present changes in its social and material environment. In this chapter, we critically review the research (practices) that prompted this challenge and discuss how it affects, but does not consider, social theories of interaction, habituation and inheritance. In a second step, we develop a social and practice theory on the basis of a co-laborative research agenda of \u2018embodied practice\u2019 that stresses the somatic context, performativity, historicity and dynamic situativity of embedded bodies. Finally, we discuss the theoretical and methodological implications of such an endeavour.<\/div>
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