Outlines

Aims & Scope

Outlines. Critical Practice Studies combines critique of science, professional practice, and socio-cultural issues in an attempt to intervene in public discourses and establish counter-discourses in various social fields. Outlines . Critical Practice Studies seeks to publish research and scholarly works in the midst of their emergence, as work in progress. An orientation towards the unfinalized and the novel is an inseparable component of critical research. Thus, we aim to provide a publishing space for works at different stages that privilege inventiveness and audacity without a rigidly pre-established formal configuration. We explicitly welcome works by authors at different stages in their careers. Outlines. Critical Practice Studies should be viewed as sketches full of living promises. They point towards figures not yet clearly seen and come to life in the richness of concrete social practice, making a difference in the field, in contemporary movements, in and public opinion. It is by reaching out into social practice that theory may become self-critical—creative, innovative, imaginative. Outlines. Critical Practice Studies  wishes to engage forms of social research in which theory and practice presuppose and move each other in reflected processes of development.  Outlines. Critical Practice Studies  seeks new relations between theory and practice in which the one is merely modeled in the image of the other. This implies a recognition of the reflexive knowledgeability of or in practices. It also requires a reflection on the socio-historical context and impact of science and knowledge.  Outlines. Critical Practice Studies  gives room for open, critical debates between different positions on the role of research and the self-understanding of institutions of research and higher education in our contemporary social formations. Perhaps most importantly, it seeks to build dialogue among and bridge critical approaches, including feminist, anti-racist, indigenous, decolonizing, queer epistemologies, and their intersections – expanding the epistemological range of publications. We explicitly welcome papers that challenge the status quo in myriad ways, including by publishing diverse, minoritized and marginalized voices. Outlines. Critical Practice Studies seeks to provide a forum for theoretically and empirically informed debates about the relationships between individual subjects, social structures, and historically developed cultural forms in and of practice. The journal is interdisciplinary with a background and focus at the intersections of social and human sciences and philosophy which are established around the idea of practice (in its various forms: Praxis, activity, praxology, process theory etc.). This makes sense because practice, as both material and discursive, both form and process, both subjective and objective, both collective and individual, relays in a distinct way otherwise quite diverse disciplines, traditions, and positions. Finally, it must be stressed that the editorial program of  Outlines. Critical Practice Studies  will remain dynamic and changing just as the societal issues subject to reflection and discourse in the columns of the journal. Thus, the editorial program presented here will persistently be debated and will change accordingly.

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