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Martin Müller - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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assemblage thinking and Actor Network Theory conjunctions disjunctions cross fertilisations
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 2016Co-Authors: Martin Müller, Carolin SchurrAbstract:This paper shows that assemblage thinking and Actor-Network Theory (ANT) have much more to gain from each other than debate has so far conceded. Exploring the conjunctions and disjunctions between the two approaches, it proposes three cross-fertilisations that have implications for understanding three key processes in our socio-material world: stabilisation, change and affect. First, the conceptual vocabulary of ANT can enrich assemblage thinking with an explicitly spatial account of the ways in which assemblages are drawn together, reach across space and are stabilised. Second, each approach is better attuned to conceptualising a particular kind of change in socio-material relations: ANT describes change without rupture, or fluidity, whereas assemblage thinking describes change with rupture, or events. Third and last, assemblage thinking could fashion ANT with a greater sensitivity for the productive role of affect in bringing socio-material relations into being through the production of desire/wish (desir). We demonstrate the implications of these cross-fertilisations for empirical work through a case study of the global market for assisted reproduction.
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assemblage thinking and Actor Network Theory conjunctions disjunctions cross fertilisations
2015Co-Authors: Martin Müller, Carolin SchurrAbstract:This paper shows that assemblage thinking and Actor-Network Theory (ANT) have much more to gain from each other than debate has so far conceded. Exploring the conjunctions and disjunctions between the two approaches, it proposes three cross-fertilisations that have implications for understanding three key processes in our socio-material world: stabilisation, change and affect. First, the conceptual vocabulary of ANT can enrich assemblage thinking with an explicitly spatial account of the ways in which assemblages are drawn together, reach across space and are stabilised. Second, each approach is better attuned to conceptualising a particular kind of change in socio-material relations: ANT describes change without rupture, or fluidity, whereas assemblage thinking describes change with rupture, or events. Third and last, assemblage thinking could fashion ANT with a greater sensitivity for the productive role of affect in bringing socio-material relations into being through the production of desire/wishes (desir). We demonstrate the implications of these cross-fertilisations for empirical work through a case study of the global market for assisted reproduction.
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A half-hearted romance? A diagnosis and agenda for the relationship between economic geography and Actor-Network Theory (ANT)
Progress in Human Geography, 2015Co-Authors: Martin MüllerAbstract:This paper examines the relationship of Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and economic geography, arguing that there has been a rather restrictive, sometimes ambiguous reading of ANT literature. It reviews three major lines of reception in economic geography around the themes of topological space, translation and performativity. Subsequently, the paper problematizes conflicting interpretations of ‘Network’ and ‘power’ as central ANT terms. In an attempt to open up new avenues of engagement with ANT, it finally sketches an agenda around three themes that are of relevance both for economic geography and for human geography more broadly: hybridity, desire and fluidity.
Carolin Schurr - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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assemblage thinking and Actor Network Theory conjunctions disjunctions cross fertilisations
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 2016Co-Authors: Martin Müller, Carolin SchurrAbstract:This paper shows that assemblage thinking and Actor-Network Theory (ANT) have much more to gain from each other than debate has so far conceded. Exploring the conjunctions and disjunctions between the two approaches, it proposes three cross-fertilisations that have implications for understanding three key processes in our socio-material world: stabilisation, change and affect. First, the conceptual vocabulary of ANT can enrich assemblage thinking with an explicitly spatial account of the ways in which assemblages are drawn together, reach across space and are stabilised. Second, each approach is better attuned to conceptualising a particular kind of change in socio-material relations: ANT describes change without rupture, or fluidity, whereas assemblage thinking describes change with rupture, or events. Third and last, assemblage thinking could fashion ANT with a greater sensitivity for the productive role of affect in bringing socio-material relations into being through the production of desire/wish (desir). We demonstrate the implications of these cross-fertilisations for empirical work through a case study of the global market for assisted reproduction.
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assemblage thinking and Actor Network Theory conjunctions disjunctions cross fertilisations
2015Co-Authors: Martin Müller, Carolin SchurrAbstract:This paper shows that assemblage thinking and Actor-Network Theory (ANT) have much more to gain from each other than debate has so far conceded. Exploring the conjunctions and disjunctions between the two approaches, it proposes three cross-fertilisations that have implications for understanding three key processes in our socio-material world: stabilisation, change and affect. First, the conceptual vocabulary of ANT can enrich assemblage thinking with an explicitly spatial account of the ways in which assemblages are drawn together, reach across space and are stabilised. Second, each approach is better attuned to conceptualising a particular kind of change in socio-material relations: ANT describes change without rupture, or fluidity, whereas assemblage thinking describes change with rupture, or events. Third and last, assemblage thinking could fashion ANT with a greater sensitivity for the productive role of affect in bringing socio-material relations into being through the production of desire/wishes (desir). We demonstrate the implications of these cross-fertilisations for empirical work through a case study of the global market for assisted reproduction.
John K Bryson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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understanding strategic planning and the formulation and implementation of strategic plans as a way of knowing the contributions of Actor Network Theory
International Public Management Journal, 2009Co-Authors: John M Bryson, Barbara C Crosby, John K BrysonAbstract:ABSTRACT This article has two purposes: first, to take seriously the notion of strategic planning as a way of knowing, and second, to argue that Actor-Network Theory provides a particularly apposit...
Alan Lowe - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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to reveal is to critique Actor Network Theory and critical information systems research
Journal of Information Technology, 2002Co-Authors: Bill Doolin, Alan LoweAbstract:This paper examines some of the issues for critical researchers of information systems (IS) arising from the post-modern turn (Lyotard, 1984; Seidman, 1994). The emphasis of the paper is to explore the increased interest and significance of research styles that have been developed within this genre and their application to IS research. The paper will approach this issue by giving particular attention to an examination of the relevance of research informed from an Actor-Network Theory perspective. We see Actor-Network Theory as an important addition to a broader critical research project (Alvesson and Deetz, 2000).
Chris Harty - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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implementing innovation in construction contexts relative boundedness and Actor Network Theory
Construction Management and Economics, 2008Co-Authors: Chris HartyAbstract:Theoretical understanding of the implementation and use of innovations within construction contexts is discussed and developed. It is argued that both the rhetoric of the ‘improvement agenda’ within construction and theories of innovation fail to account for the complex contexts and disparate perspectives which characterize construction work. To address this, the concept of relative boundedness is offered. Relatively unbounded innovation is characterized by a lack of a coherent central driving force or mediator with the ability to reconcile potential conflicts and overcome resistance to implementation. This is a situation not exclusive to, but certainly indicative of, much construction project work. Drawing on empirical material from the implementation of new design and coordination technologies on a large construction project, the concept is developed, concentrating on the negotiations and translations implementation mobilized. An Actor‐Network Theory (ANT) approach is adopted, which emphasizes the roles...
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implementing innovation in construction contexts relative boundedness and Actor Network Theory
Construction Management and Economics, 2008Co-Authors: Chris HartyAbstract:Theoretical understanding of the implementation and use of innovations within construction contexts is discussed and developed. It is argued that both the rhetoric of the 'improvement agenda' within construction and theories of innovation fail to account for the complex contexts and disparate perspectives which characterize construction work. To address this, the concept of relative boundedness is offered. Relatively unbounded innovation is characterized by a lack of a coherent central driving force or mediator with the ability to reconcile potential conflicts and overcome resistance to implementation. This is a situation not exclusive to, but certainly indicative of, much construction project work. Drawing on empirical material from the implementation of new design and coordination technologies on a large construction project, the concept is developed, concentrating on the negotiations and translations implementation mobilized. An Actor-Network Theory (ANT) approach is adopted, which emphasizes the roles that both human Actors and non-human agents play in the performance and outcomes of these interactions. Three aspects of how relative boundedness is constituted and affected are described; through the robustness of existing practices and expectations, through the delegation of interests on to technological artefacts and through the mobilization of Actors and artefacts to constrain and limit the scope of negotiations over new technology implementation.
