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Cleaning Amsterdam: Praxiography as Method
Cleaning Amsterdam is about the good in everyday practices: about what counts as good here and there; about how situations come to be evaluated as good or not good; about the ways in which variants of the good are incorporated in ways of doing things; about attempts to encourage good behaviour; and about controlling versus caring ways of realising the good. The book does not discuss these issues in general, but through examples. Those examples focus on a specific kind of good, namely cleanliness; in a particular setting, the public spaces of the city of Amsterdam (with an occasional detour).
- Author
- Mandy de Wilde & Annemarie Mol
- Date
- 01 December 2026
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Throughout the book, a series of asides examine practicalities to do with researching the good, under the heading ‘method’. In Cleaning Amsterdam method is not caught in rules, the authors refrain from telling readers how to proceed when doing research. Instead, they offer astute reflections and challenge readers to always think for themselves.