Research note
Travelling-and-settling framing via Shove et al. — section plan
Plan for a section that uses Shove, Pantzar & Watson (2012) to frame the thesis as an account of how the Brīvbode practice travelled from Berlin to Riga and settled into a different element-ecology.
Key Shove anchor blocks beyond the three-elements basics #KZQQMM #UH63ZX #9C7GWP #L87E64 #68LTKB
#PU3SNX (p.53): elements travel, practices don’t — the foundational distinction.
#F6625X (p.146): “practices do not literally travel, but elements certainly do.”
#6LRSZK (p.146): “uneven landscapes of possibility” — elements cannot travel everywhere.
#LD9ACL (p.71): appropriation of meanings/competences depends on “local capacities to embed, ‘reverse’ and interpret,” themselves born of past practices.
#Z7DKTH (p.70): the three element types travel in characteristically different ways.
#4NM6GU driving in France/UK/Germany/USA/India/Pitjantjatjara lands as the canonical “same name, different element-mix” example.
#JWKSM8 (p.147): co-constitution of space and practice (Westernization / air-conditioning in Tokyo).
Empirical anchors in the thesis:
#KBM3E4 + #P6NDHX the concept travelled with Alise from a Berlin swapshop; her quote about the library-like, čomisks neighbour atmosphere.
German element-ecology that did NOT travel: #ZXG5MF (Sozialkaufhaus), #E6SHVY (give-box / fair-teiler system).
Latvian local element-ecology the practice has to settle into: #DSXYXS (humpalas), #STCFFR (libraries of things, freeshelves), #A2XFZ2 (what sets Brīvbode apart locally), #YLZZZQ (Lastādija DIY quarter).
Local meanings that compete with the imported ones: #SLSEJR (Valentīna’s stigma), #73JJ3Y (Soviet mentality), #DSSBTQ (hiding the origin of gifts), #AN9UGJ (post-Soviet scarcity orientation).
Where this hooks into existing argument: #6Q7RKZ (moral economy as meaning-negotiation), #QV6T8W and #7PZ3FF (consumption work as substituting for absent German infrastructure).
Existing research questions to be sharpened, not replaced: #7SNHEW #B7YP98
Best placement: closing move of §2.1 Theories of Practice #DM342A with a signpost paragraph at the start of §3.2 The site #5K5G36 or §4 #YW8WDH picking up the travel/settle thread.
Caveat to flag in the writing: tighten the phrasing in #KBM3E4 — strictly, what travelled was a bundle of meanings and competences carried by Alise; the practice is re-enacted in Riga every week, not literally transported. This is more accurate AND a stronger argument.