It is widely recognised that biological, microbial and social processes interact. Behind this headline there is much less agreement about how the social world should be conceptualised and understood. One response is that practices – not social structures, and not individual behaviours – constitute the ‘site’ of the social. In recent years,
practice theorists have generated a distinctive and powerful repertoire of ideas about materiality, inequality and global change. The result is an inspiring and generative body of social theory that provides the basis for interdisciplinary alliances and for new ways of thinking about the social dynamics of microbiomes.

Cecily Maller (RMIT), Simon Cohn (LSHTM) and Elizabeth Shove (Lancaster) are organising a series of seminars in which invited participants and contributors discuss papers that deal with related issues.

27th March 2024, 9am. Catherine Will, (2016) On difference and doubt as tools for critical engagement with public health. Critical Public Health, 27 (3). pp. 293-302.
24th April 2024, 9am. Steve Hinchliffe (2022) Postcolonial Global Health, Post-Colony Microbes and Antimicrobial Resistance,Theory, culture & society 2022 Vol. 39 Issue 3 Pages 145-168
29th May 2024, 9am. Beth Greenhough et al.(2018) Unsettling antibiosis: how might interdisciplinary researchers generate a feeling for the microbiome and to what effect?Palgrave communications  Vol. 4 Issue 1 Pages 149.
26 June 2024, 9am. Jamie Lorimer, (2016) Gut Buddies: Multispecies Studies and the Microbiome, Environmental Humanities Vol. 8 Issue 1 Pages 57-76
24th July 2024, 9am. Cecily Maller and Maurizio Meloni (2024) Revitalizing Air: More-than-Human Relations in Urban Health Beyond the Modern-Premodern Binary, GeoHumanities.
25th September 2024, 9am. Elizabeth Shove, Stan Blue and Mike Kelly, (2024), Categorising and cohabiting: practices as the site of biosocial becoming, Social Theory & Health