Routledge Companion to Actor-Network Theory

Informationen zum Autor Anders Blok is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Copenhagen. He is the co-author (with Torben E. Jensen) of Bruno Latour: Hybrid Thoughts in a Hybrid World (Routledge 2011) and the co-editor (with Ignacio Farías) of Urban Cosmopolitics: Agencements, Assemblies, Atmospheres (Routledge 2016). Ignacio Farías is Professor of Urban Anthropology at the Humboldt University Berlin. He is the co-editor of Urban Assemblages: How Actor-Network Theory Changes Urban Studies (Routledge 2009, with Thomas Bender), Technical Democracy as a Challenge for Urban Studies (2016, with Anders Blok) and Studio Studies: Operations, Topologies & Displacements (Routledge 2015, with Alex Wilkie). Celia Roberts is a Professor in the School of Sociology, Australian National University. She is the co-author, with Adrian Mackenzie and Maggie Mort, of Living Data: Making Sense of Health Biosensors (2019) and the author of Puberty in Crisis: The Sociology of Early Sexual Development (2016). Zusammenfassung The companion explores ANT as an intellectual practice, tracking its movements and engagements with a wide range of 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Section 1 - Some elements of the ANT paradigm(s) Section 2 - Engaging dialogues with key intellectual companions Section 3 - Trading zones of ANT: problematisations and ambivalences Section 4 - Translating ANT beyond science and technology Section 5 - The sites and scales of ANT Section 6 - The uses of ANT for public-professional engagement

Product details

• Authors: Anders (University of Copenhagen Blok, Anders Farias Blok, Anders Roberts Blok
• Assisted by: Anders Blok (Editor), Anders (University of Copenhagen Blok (Editor), Blok Anders (Editor), Ignacio Farias (Editor), Ignacio (Technical University of Munich Farias (Editor), Ignacio Farías (Editor), Farias Ignacio (Editor), Celia Roberts (Editor), Celia (Lancaster University Roberts (Editor), Roberts Celia (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2018
• EAN: 9781138084728
• ISBN: 978-1-138-08472-8
• No. of pages: 422
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works; Sociology, Geography, Social Theory, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Reference, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Reference works, Urban communities, Urban communities / city life