Practice does not make perfect: Sustainable consumption, practice theory, and the question of power

Joseph Rouse is one of the most distinctive and innovative proponents of practice theory today. This article focuses in section I on two extended elaborations with systematic intent from Rouse’s corpus over the last two decades regarding the nature of practices, highlighting in particular the concept of normativity. Toward this end, this article explains why Rouse argues that we need to bring about something like a Copernican revolution in our understanding of the intrinsic normativity of practices as an essentially interactive, temporal, contestable, and open-ended process. In section II, this article then examines some commonalities and apparent divergences of Rouse’s practice theory from the existential phenomenology of the early Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty. The article draws to a close by considering two apparent divergences between Rouse’s conception of practices and existential phenomenology: (1) the degree of compatibility between the claim of existential phenomenology to reveal necessary enabling background conditions of our lived experience and Rouse’s normative conception of practices; and (2) the compatibility of “quasi-transcendental” constitution, as this is at work according to existential phenomenology, and Rouse’s argument that it is wrong to understand practices as exclusively centered on the activities of human beings.

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Selbstdifferenz in Praktiken

Phänomenologische Forschungen ◽

10.28937/1000107736 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 2017 (2) ◽

pp. 57-76 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Thomas Bedorf

Keyword(s):

Practice Theory ◽

Black Box ◽

Lived Body ◽

Material Body ◽

Theories Of Practice ◽

The Difference

The materiality of bodies is crucial for establishing theories of practice. To unfold the ‘black box’ of the performing body some theorists have implemented the difference between the lived body and the material body (Leib/Kçrper) in practice theory. This corporeal difference finds one systematic origin in phenomenology. It has come under attack for naturalising and subjectivising the lived body as a primordial category, and thus being unable to integrate to practice theory. It will be argued that critics can be refuted insofar as the corporeal difference is taken serious as a bodily experienced difference which is never to be reduced to some kind of objectivity.

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(UN)SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION AND SOME POLICIES BEHIND: LITHUANIAN CASE

Environmental Engineering and Management Journal ◽

10.30638/eemj.2018.142 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 17 (6) ◽

pp. 1439-1448

Author(s):

Renata Dagiliute

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Consumption

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A Circular Business Model for Cloud Computing Services Providers

International Journal of Community Development and Management Studies ◽

10.31355/33 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2 ◽

pp. 105-120

Author(s):

Hamed Motaghi ◽

Saeed Nosratabadi ◽

Thabit Qasem Atobishi

Keyword(s):

Cloud Computing ◽

Business Model ◽

Circular Economy ◽

Service Providers ◽

Sustainable Consumption ◽

Future Research ◽

Extensive Literature ◽

Computing Services ◽

Proposed Model ◽

Cloud Computing Service

NOTE: THIS ARTICLE WAS PUBLISHED WITH THE INFORMING SCIENCE INSTITUTE. Aim/Purpose................................................................................................................................................................................................. The main objective of the current study is to develop a business model for service providers of cloud computing which is designed based on circular economy principles and can ensure the sustainable consumption. Background Even though the demand for cloud computing technology is increasing day by day in all over the world, the current the linear economy principles are incapable to ensure society development needs. To consider the benefit of the society and the vendors at the same time, the principles of circular economy can address this issue. Methodology................................................................................................................................................................................................. An extensive literature review on consumption, sustainable consumption, circular economic, business model, and cloud computing were conducted. the proposed model of Osterwalder, Pigneur and Tucci (2005) is admitted designing the circular business model. Contribution................................................................................................................................................................................................. The proposed model of the study is the contribution of this study where provides the guidelines for the cloud computing service providers to achieve both their economic profits and the society’ needs. Findings Finding reveals that if the cloud computing service providers design their business model based on the “access” principle of circular economy, they can meet their economic profits and the society’ needs at a same time. Recommendations for Practitioners.............................................................................................................................................................. It is recommended to the startup and the existing businesses to utilize the proposed model of this study to reach a sustainable development. Recommendation for Researchers................................................................................................................................................................ It proposes a new circular business model and its linkages with community building. Impact on Society............................................................................................................................................................................................ The proposed model of the study provides guidelines to the cloud computing service providers to design a business model which is able not only to meet their economic profit, but also to meet the society’s and customers’ benefits. Future Research............................................................................................................................................................................................... Future researches can build on this research model which proposed in this study to examine the limitations of this model by using empirical researches.

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