Sentence examples for materials practices and from inspiring English sources

Entangled Itineraries: Materials, Practices, and Knowledges across Eurasia.

"Smoke and Silk: The Movement of Material Complexes across Eurasia," in Entangled Itineraries of Materials, Practices, and Knowing, University of Pittsburgh Press, Forthcoming.

One of his trademarks is the reinterpretation of materials, practices and objects: Crocodile skins are tanned with salt rather than traditional bark for a softer result; straps are attached using a technique used in body piercing and ornamented with tattoo illustrations; bag handles are bejeweled and encrusted with lapis lazuli or amethyst to look like bracelets.

technology transfer and adoption of permeable, pervious, or porous paving materials, practices, and systems that are designed to minimize environmental impacts, stormwater runoff, and flooding and to treat or remove pollutants by allowing stormwater to infiltrate through the pavement in a manner similar to predevelopment hydrologic conditions.

It is then discussed and, drawing from work on assemblage theory, analyzed against three broad themes: mobile networks, socio-material practices and contested emergence.

"Detours" deliberately perverts the guidebook to produce alternative narratives, tours, itineraries, mappings and images of the islands as well as concrete examples of how we can move from metaphors of decolonization to material practices and everyday acts of resistance.

Histories of scales such as the BDS can deepen our understanding of why this world-view first emerged and became so influential, showing how its existence depends on various material practices and tools.

We argue that an important gap characterizes this state of the art: current approaches do not consider material practice and materiality to be an inherent part of later life as constituted in contemporary societies.

In other words, the fact would become obvious that they have a history, that they are born of specific relationships, of the links which exist between mental activities and material activities; between slavery (a material practice) and skin colour (a mental practice), between domestic exploitation (a material practice) and sex (a mental practice).

The power of 'Common Sense' (rather than what he called 'good sense') comes from its relationship to day-to-day material practices, rituals and activities, as well as dominant ideas".

There are a large number of failure mechanisms as a result of the variety of insulation materials, design practices and operating environments.