Past, Present and Future 147converge largely with the particular development projects of banks. Consequently,
in case of further expansion they have to take account of the parameters applying
to capital markets and of the requirements of the funding organizations. This will
not apply to other meat producers who have based the construction of their farm
on their own savings and/or family capital, or if it does apply it will be less signifi-
cant.
Analytically, integration and distantiation thus become important key con-
cepts. In more general terms, the network of relationships connecting different
projects becomes decisive in the further construction of practices. What is impor-
tant to note here, however, is that the nature of these networks can vary consider-
ably.
In a way current practices constitute the result of former processes of unfold-
ing. In turn, these practices (the particular and fine-tuned systems of resources,
capabilities and networks) direct and order the further processes of unfolding,
which will undoubtedly leave their mark on subsequent possibilities and impossi-
bilities. That which has been constructed in a certain practice structures the fur-
ther development of that practice. Hence, regularities emerge: patterns of coherence
and continuity. In turn, they refer indeed to something that orders, to something
that structures. In other words, there is absolutely no need to deny that ‘actors’
choices can be constrained’ (Harriss, 1997, p11).^16
Essentially, that which structures is not external to, but inherent and implicit
in, the practices themselves – that is, in the practices that the actors involved realize
themselves, in mutual interaction with others and with other things. In essence
Figure 8.3 Ongoing process of unfolding