The Routledge Companion to Actor-Network Theory

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dc.contributor.authorBlok, Anders
dc.contributor.authorFarias, Ignacio
dc.contributor.authorRoberts, Celia
dc.contributor.editorBlok, Anders
dc.contributor.editorFarias, Ignacios
dc.contributor.editorRoberts, Celia
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-19T02:01:21Z
dc.date.available2020-06-19T02:01:21Z
dc.date.issued2019-06-25
dc.date.updated2020-06-07T08:17:39Z
dc.description.abstractThis 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.en_AU
dc.format.extent422 pagesen_AU
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.isbn978-1-138-08427-8en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/205351
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_AU
dc.rights© 2020 selection and editorial matter, Anders Blok, Ignacio Farías and Celia Roberts; individual chapters, the contributorsen_AU
dc.titleThe Routledge Companion to Actor-Network Theoryen_AU
dc.typeBooken_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.placeofpublicationOxon and New York
local.contributor.affiliationBlok, Anders, University of Copenhagenen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationFarias, Ignacio, Humboldt University Berlinen_AU
local.contributor.affiliationRoberts, Celia, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANUen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailu1069549@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.contributor.authoruidRoberts, Celia, u1069549en_AU
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.description.refereedYes
local.identifier.absfor160806 - Social Theoryen_AU
local.identifier.absfor160808 - Sociology and Social Studies of Science and Technologyen_AU
local.identifier.absseo970116 - Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Societyen_AU
local.identifier.absseo970110 - Expanding Knowledge in Technologyen_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationa383154xPUB12465en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.4324/9781315111667en_AU
local.identifier.uidSubmittedBya383154en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttps://www.routledge.com/en_AU
local.type.statusMetadata onlyen_AU

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