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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.
Invoking the notion of 'cosmopolitics' from Bruno Latour and
Isabelle Stengers, this volume shows how and why cities constitute
privileged sites for studying the search for and composition of
common worlds of cohabitation. A cosmopolitical approach to the
city focuses on the multiple assemblages of human and nonhuman
actors that constitute urban common worlds, and on the conflicts
and compromises that arise among different ways of assembling the
city. It brings into view how urban worlds are always in the
process of being subtly transformed, destabilized, decentred,
questioned, criticized, or even destroyed. As such, it opens up
novel questions as to the gradual and contested composition of
urban life, thereby forcing us to pay more explicit attention to
the politics of urban assemblages. Focusing on changing sanitation
infrastructures and practices, emerging forms of urban activism,
processes of economic restructuring, transformations of the built
environment, changing politics of expert-based urban planning, as
well as novel practices for navigating the urban everyday, the
contributions gathered in this volume explore different conceptual
and empirical configurations of urban cosmopolitics: agencements,
assemblies, atmospheres. Taken together, the volume thus aims at
introducing and specifying a novel research program for rethinking
urban studies and politics, in ways that remain sensitive to the
multiple agencies, materialities, concerns and publics that
constitute any urban situation.
Consider the vast array of things around you, from the building you
are in, the lights illuminating the interior, the computational
devices mediating your life, the music in the background, even the
crockery, furniture and glassware you are in the presence of.
Common to all these objects is that their concrete, visual and
technological forms were invariably conceived, modelled, finished
and tested in sites characterised as studios. Remarkably, the
studio remains a peculiar lacuna in our understanding of how
cultural artefacts are brought into being and how 'creativity'
operates as a located practice. Studio Studies is an agenda setting
volume that presents a set of empirical case studies that explore
and examine the studio as a key setting for aesthetic and material
production. As such, Studio Studies responds to three contemporary
concerns in social and cultural thought: first, how to account for
the situated nature of creative and cultural production; second,
the challenge of reimagining creativity as a socio-materially
distributed practice rather than the cognitive privilege of the
individual; and finally, to unravel the parallels, contrasts and
interconnections between studios and other sites of
cultural-aesthetic and technoscientific production, notably
laboratories. By enquiring into the operations, topologies and
displacements that shape and format studios, this volume aims to
demarcate a novel and important object of analysis for empirical
social and cultural research as well to develop new conceptual
repertoires to unpack the multiple ways studio processes shape our
everyday lives.
This book takes it as a given that the city is made of multiple
partially localized assemblages built of heterogeneous networks,
spaces, and practices. The past century of urban studies has
focused on various aspects-space, culture, politics, economy-but
these too often address each domain and the city itself as a
bounded and cohesive entity. The multiple and overlapping
enactments that constitute urban life require a commensurate method
of analysis that encompasses the human and non-human aspects of
cities-from nature to socio-technical networks, to hybrid
collectivities, physical artefacts and historical legacies, and the
virtual or imagined city.
This book proposes-and its various chapters offer
demonstrations-importing into urban studies a body of theories,
concepts, and perspectives developed in the field of science and
technology studies (STS) and, more specifically, Actor-Network
Theory (ANT). The essays examine artefacts, technical systems,
architectures, place and eventful spaces, the persistence of
history, imaginary and virtual elements of city life, and the
politics and ethical challenges of a mode of analysis that
incorporates multiple actors as hybrid chains of causation. The
chapters are attentive to the multiple scales of both the object of
analysis and the analysis itself. The aim is more ambitious than
the mere transfer of a fashionable template. The authors embrace
ANT critically, as much as a metaphor as a method of analysis,
deploying it to think with, to ask new questions, to find the
language to achieve more compelling descriptions of city life and
of urban transformations. By greatly extending the chain or network
of causation, proliferating heterogeneous agents, non-human as well
as human, without limit as to their enrolment in urban assemblages,
Actor-Network Theory offers a way of addressing the particular
complexity and openness characteristic of cities.
By enabling an escape from the reification of the city so common
in social theory, ANT's notion of hybrid assemblages offers richer
framing of the reality of the city-of urban experience-that is
responsive to contingency and complexity. Therefore Urban
Assemblages is a pertinent book for students, practitioners and
scholars as it aims to shift the parameters of urban studies and
contribute a meaningful argument for the urban arena which will
dominate the coming decades in government policies.
Invoking the notion of 'cosmopolitics' from Bruno Latour and
Isabelle Stengers, this volume shows how and why cities constitute
privileged sites for studying the search for and composition of
common worlds of cohabitation. A cosmopolitical approach to the
city focuses on the multiple assemblages of human and nonhuman
actors that constitute urban common worlds, and on the conflicts
and compromises that arise among different ways of assembling the
city. It brings into view how urban worlds are always in the
process of being subtly transformed, destabilized, decentred,
questioned, criticized, or even destroyed. As such, it opens up
novel questions as to the gradual and contested composition of
urban life, thereby forcing us to pay more explicit attention to
the politics of urban assemblages. Focusing on changing sanitation
infrastructures and practices, emerging forms of urban activism,
processes of economic restructuring, transformations of the built
environment, changing politics of expert-based urban planning, as
well as novel practices for navigating the urban everyday, the
contributions gathered in this volume explore different conceptual
and empirical configurations of urban cosmopolitics: agencements,
assemblies, atmospheres. Taken together, the volume thus aims at
introducing and specifying a novel research program for rethinking
urban studies and politics, in ways that remain sensitive to the
multiple agencies, materialities, concerns and publics that
constitute any urban situation.
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.
Consider the vast array of things around you, from the building you
are in, the lights illuminating the interior, the computational
devices mediating your life, the music in the background, even the
crockery, furniture and glassware you are in the presence of.
Common to all these objects is that their concrete, visual and
technological forms were invariably conceived, modelled, finished
and tested in sites characterised as studios. Remarkably, the
studio remains a peculiar lacuna in our understanding of how
cultural artefacts are brought into being and how 'creativity'
operates as a located practice. Studio Studies is an agenda setting
volume that presents a set of empirical case studies that explore
and examine the studio as a key setting for aesthetic and material
production. As such, Studio Studies responds to three contemporary
concerns in social and cultural thought: first, how to account for
the situated nature of creative and cultural production; second,
the challenge of reimagining creativity as a socio-materially
distributed practice rather than the cognitive privilege of the
individual; and finally, to unravel the parallels, contrasts and
interconnections between studios and other sites of
cultural-aesthetic and technoscientific production, notably
laboratories. By enquiring into the operations, topologies and
displacements that shape and format studios, this volume aims to
demarcate a novel and important object of analysis for empirical
social and cultural research as well to develop new conceptual
repertoires to unpack the multiple ways studio processes shape our
everyday lives.
This book takes it as a given that the city is made of multiple
partially localized assemblages built of heterogeneous networks,
spaces, and practices. The past century of urban studies has
focused on various aspects-space, culture, politics, economy-but
these too often address each domain and the city itself as a
bounded and cohesive entity. The multiple and overlapping
enactments that constitute urban life require a commensurate method
of analysis that encompasses the human and non-human aspects of
cities-from nature to socio-technical networks, to hybrid
collectivities, physical artefacts and historical legacies, and the
virtual or imagined city. This book proposes-and its various
chapters offer demonstrations-importing into urban studies a body
of theories, concepts, and perspectives developed in the field of
science and technology studies (STS) and, more specifically,
Actor-Network Theory (ANT). The essays examine artefacts, technical
systems, architectures, place and eventful spaces, the persistence
of history, imaginary and virtual elements of city life, and the
politics and ethical challenges of a mode of analysis that
incorporates multiple actors as hybrid chains of causation. The
chapters are attentive to the multiple scales of both the object of
analysis and the analysis itself. The aim is more ambitious than
the mere transfer of a fashionable template. The authors embrace
ANT critically, as much as a metaphor as a method of analysis,
deploying it to think with, to ask new questions, to find the
language to achieve more compelling descriptions of city life and
of urban transformations. By greatly extending the chain or network
of causation, proliferating heterogeneous agents, non-human as well
as human, without limit as to their enrolment in urban assemblages,
Actor-Network Theory offers a way of addressing the particular
complexity and openness characteristic of cities. By enabling an
escape from the reification of the city so common in social theory,
ANT's notion of hybrid assemblages offers richer framing of the
reality of the city-of urban experience-that is responsive to
contingency and complexity. Therefore Urban Assemblages is a
pertinent book for students, practitioners and scholars as it aims
to shift the parameters of urban studies and contribute a
meaningful argument for the urban arena which will dominate the
coming decades in government policies.
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