“Knowing in practice” in Posthumanist Practice Theory : A Cartography
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Posthumanist Practice Theory has emerged in management and organisation studies in recent years. This approach entails decentring the human subject, promoting the ongoing deconstruction of humanism. It also encompasses a critical reconsideration of
knowledge to overcome anthropocentric, essentialist, and speciesist positions to offer new reflections on the crisis of the
Anthropocene. The contribution provides a cartography of the concept of “knowing in practice” in posthumanist practice theory
across the theoretical traditions that contributed to its development. By tracing the contribution of different theoretical traditions,
the article shows how knowing and practising are not separate activities but interact and produce each other. Knowing emerges from
practising due to becoming sensitive to the sociomaterial relationships involved in the practice, and practising is affected by knowing
in a circular mutual relation. Moreover, in posthumanist practice theory, knowing in practice is an ethical process in which subjects
constantly converse with the world and become with it.
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