Practicing Culture

edited by Craig Calhoun and Richard Sennett. Chapters by NYLON members. (2007) Published by Routledge as part of the Taking Culture Seriously series.

• Introduction [pdf: 7 pages, 580kb]
  by Craig Calhoun and Richard Sennett
• Chapter 1 | "We have never been German": The economy of digging in
  Russian Kaliningrad
  by Olga Sezneva
• Chapter 2 | Practicing poetry: A career without a job
  by Ailsa Craig
• Chapter 3 | Hot glass: The calorific imagination of practice in glassblowing
  by Erin O'Connor
• Chapter 4 | State power as field work: Culture and practice in the French
  survey of historic landmarks
  by Alexandra Kowalski
• Chapter 5 | New and improved nations: Branding national identity
  by Melissa Aronczyk
• Chapter 6 | Facts in the city: How London accountants simplify decisions
  by Matthew Gill
• Chapter 7 | Managing doubt: Professional wrestling jargon and the making of
  "smart fans"
  by Marion Wrenn
• Chapter 8 | Beauty at the gallery: Sentimental education and operatic community in
  contemporary Buenos Aires
  by Claudio Benzecry
• Chapter 9 | The erotic life of hair clippers: A social history
  by Alton Phillips
• Chapter 10 | Practicing authorship: The case of Brecht's plays
  by Monika Krause