Drawing on a global, longitudinal case study of the vinyl record manufacturing practice following a global decline in sales, we examine the work undertaken to preserve it over time. Our process model of practice preservation highlights that a declining practice may persist across generations if it is made more accessible and resilient by reducing its dependence on specific types of meanings, materials, and competences that risk being lost. Our analysis suggests that these outcomes depend on the work of two types of custodians—legacy professionals and new enthusiasts—in terms of “diversifying” the practice to accommodate multiple configurations of meanings, materials, and competences, thus constituting new practice variants, as well as supporting the continued enactment of variants over time by engaging in processes we label “propping up,” “recovering,” “replenishing,” and “releasing.” In addition to developing a rich understanding of preservation, our findings contribute to a nuanced perspective on practice evolution by conceptualizing a practice as comprising multiple, potentially fluid variants. Moreover, by highlighting inclusive custodianship processes, which differ from gatekeeping and guarding so far emphasized, and by unpacking the role of materials to complement the traditional emphasis on symbolic elements, our findings enrich the nascent custodianship literature.

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代代相传的保管权：保留黑胶唱片制造实践

根据全球销量下降后黑胶唱片制造实践的全球纵向案例研究，我们研究了为保护黑胶唱片而采取的工作。我们的实践保存过程模型强调，如果通过减少对特定类型的意义、材料和可能丧失的能力的依赖，使其变得更容易获得和更有弹性，那么一种日渐衰落的实践可能会持续几代人。我们的分析表明，这些结果取决于两类保管人——传统专业人士和新爱好者——在实践“多样化”方面的工作，以适应意义、材料和能力的多种配置，从而构成新的实践变体随着时间的推移，通过参与我们标记为“支撑”、“恢复”、“补充”和“释放”的过程来支持变体的持续制定。除了加深对保存的理解之外，我们的研究结果还通过将实践概念化为包含多种可能流动的变体，为实践演变提供了细致入微的视角。此外，通过强调与迄今为止强调的看门和守卫不同的包容性托管过程，并通过解开材料的作用来补充传统上对象征元素的强调，我们的发现丰富了新生的托管文献。