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      The Routledge Companion to Actor-Network Theory
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      The Routledge Companion to Actor-Network Theory

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      The Routledge Companion to Actor-Network Theory book

      Edited ByAnders Blok, Ignacio Farías, Celia Roberts
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2019
      eBook Published 1 July 2019
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315111667
      Pages 458
      eBook ISBN 9781315111667
      Subjects Geography, Reference & Information Science, Social Sciences, Urban Studies
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      Blok, A., Farías, I., & Roberts, C. (Eds.). (2019). The Routledge Companion to Actor-Network Theory (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315111667

      ABSTRACT

      This companion explores ANT as an intellectual practice, tracking its movements and engagements with a wide range of other academic and activist projects. Showcasing the work of a diverse set of ‘second generation’ ANT scholars from around the world, it highlights the exciting depth and breadth of contemporary ANT and its future possibilities.

      The companion has 38 chapters, each answering a key question about ANT and its capacities. Early chapters explore ANT as an intellectual practice and highlight ANT’s dialogues with other fields and key theorists. Others open critical, provocative discussions of its limitations. Later sections explore how ANT has been developed in a range of social scientific fields and how it has been used to explore a wide range of scales and sites. Chapters in the final section discuss ANT’s involvement in ‘real world’ endeavours such as disability and environmental activism, and even running a Chilean hospital. Each chapter contains an overview of relevant work and introduces original examples and ideas from the authors’ recent research. The chapters orient readers in rich, complex fields and can be read in any order or combination. Throughout the volume, authors mobilise ANT to explore and account for a range of exciting case studies: from wheelchair activism to parliamentary decision-making; from racial profiling to energy consumption monitoring; from queer sex to Korean cities. A comprehensive introduction by the editors explores the significance of ANT more broadly and provides an overview of the volume.

      The Routledge Companion to Actor-Network Theory will be an inspiring and lively companion to academics and advanced undergraduates and postgraduates from across many disciplines across the social sciences, including Sociology, Geography, Politics and Urban Studies, Environmental Studies and STS, and anyone wishing to engage with ANT, to understand what it has already been used to do and to imagine what it might do in the future.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      part Section 1|72 pages

      Some elements of the ANT paradigm(s)

      chapter 1|10 pages

      What if ANT wouldn’t pursue agnosticism but care?

      ByDaniel López-Gómez

      chapter 2|10 pages

      How to make ANT concepts more real?

      ByAdrian Mackenzie

      chapter 3|10 pages

      Is ANT’s radical empiricism ethnographic?

      ByBrit Ross Winthereik

      chapter 4|12 pages

      Can ANT compare with anthropology?

      ByAtsuro Morita

      chapter 5|10 pages

      How to write after performativity?

      ByJosé Ossandón

      chapter 6|8 pages

      Is ANT a critique of capital?

      ByFabian Muniesa

      chapter 7|9 pages

      How to use ANT in inventive ways so that its critique will not run out of steam?

      ByMichael Guggenheim

      part Section 2|82 pages

      Engaging dialogues with key intellectual companions

      chapter 8|14 pages

      Is actant-rhizome ontology a more appropriate term for ANT?

      ByCasper Bruun Jensen

      chapter 9|14 pages

      What can ANT still learn from semiotics?

      ByAlvise Mattozzi

      chapter 10|11 pages

      What did we forget about ANT’s roots in anthropology of writing?

      ByD. Pontille Jérôme

      chapter 11|9 pages

      As ANT is getting undone, can Pragmatism help us re-do it?

      ByNoortje Marres

      chapter 12|12 pages

      Why does ANT need Haraway for thinking about (gendered) bodies?

      ByEricka Johnson

      chapter 13|10 pages

      How does thinking with dementing bodies and A. N. Whitehead reassemble central propositions of ANT?

      ByMichael Schillmeier

      chapter 14|11 pages

      What is the relevance of Isabelle Stengers’ philosophy to ANT?

      ByMartin Savransky

      part Section 3|78 pages

      Trading zones of ANT

      chapter 15|13 pages

      What can go wrong when people become interested in the non-human?

      ByNigel Clark

      chapter 16|13 pages

      What possibilities would a queer ANT generate?

      ByKane Race

      chapter 17|9 pages

      Is ANT capable of tracing spaces of affect?

      ByDerek P. McCormack

      chapter 18|10 pages

      How to care for our accounts?

      BySonja Jerak-Zuiderent

      chapter 19|10 pages

      Is ANT an artistic practice? 1

      ByFrancis Halsall

      chapter 20|10 pages

      How to stage a convergence between ANT and Southern sociologies?

      ByMarcelo C. Rosa

      chapter 21|12 pages

      What might ANT learn from Chinese medicine about difference?

      ByWen-Yuan Lin

      part Section 4|62 pages

      Translating ANT beyond science and technology

      chapter 22|11 pages

      What about race?

      ByAmade M’charek, Irene van Oorschot

      chapter 23|10 pages

      What might we learn from ANT for studying healthcare issues in the majority world, and what might ANT learn in turn?

      ByUli Beisel

      chapter 24|8 pages

      What is the value of ANT research into economic valuation devices?

      ByLiliana Doganova

      chapter 25|9 pages

      How does ANT help us to rethink the city and its promises?

      ByAlexa Färber

      chapter 26|10 pages

      How to study the construction of subjectivity with ANT?

      ByArthur Arruda Leal Ferreira

      chapter 27|11 pages

      Why do maintenance and repair matter?

      ByDavid J. Denis

      part Section 5|63 pages

      The sites and scales of ANT

      chapter 28|8 pages

      Are parliaments still privileged sites for studying politics and liberal democracy?

      ByEndre Dányi

      chapter 29|12 pages

      How does an ANT approach help us rethink the notion of site?

      ByAlbena Yaneva, Brett Mommersteeg

      chapter 30|10 pages

      How does the South Korean city of Kyŏngju help ANT think place and scale?

      ByRobert Oppenheim

      chapter 31|9 pages

      How can ANT trace slow-moving environmental harms as they become eventful political disruptions?

      ByKregg Hetherington

      chapter 32|8 pages

      Is ANT equally good in dealing with local, national and global natures?

      ByKristin Asdal

      chapter 33|12 pages

      What happens to ANT, and its emphasis on the socio-material grounding of the social, in digital sociology?

      ByCarolin Gerlitz, Esther Weltevrede

      part Section 6|54 pages

      The uses of ANT for public–professional engagement

      chapter 34|9 pages

      Can ANT be a form of activism?

      ByTomás Sánchez Criado, Israel Rodríguez-Giralt

      chapter 35|9 pages

      How has ANT been helpful for public anthropologists after the 3.11 disaster in Japan?

      ByKohei Inose, Shuhei Kimura

      chapter 36|11 pages

      How to move beyond the dialogism of the ‘Parliament of Things’ and the ‘Hybrid Forum’ when rethinking participatory experiments with ANT?

      ByEmma Cardwell, Waterton Claire

      chapter 37|11 pages

      How well does ANT equip designers for socio-material speculations?

      ByAlex Wilkie

      chapter 38|11 pages

      How to run a hospital with ANT?

      ByYuri Carvajal Bañados
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