Research Catalog

Title

Actor network theory and after / edited by John Law and John Hassard.

Publication

Oxford, UK ; Malden, MA, USA : Blackwell/The Sociological Review, 1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Law, John, 1946-
• Hassard, John, 1953-

Description

256 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"Actor-Network Theory is one of the most influential approaches to social theory to have emerged in recent years. Combining post-structuralist insights with robustly empirical studies of subjectivities, technologies, organisations, power, and social ordering, it has challenged and helped to set intellectual agendas not only in sociology and technoscience studies, but also in anthropology, economics, feminism, geography, philosophy and organisation studies."--BOOK JACKET. "But what are its strengths and its weaknesses? And what are its prospects? This major reference volume explores ANT's achievements, and looks to a future in which many of its lessons are being assimilated by other disciplines."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Sociological review monographs

Uniform Title

Sociological review monograph

Subjects

• Actor-network theory
• Social networks
• Act (Philosophy)
• Action theory
• Sociology > Philosophy
• Social sciences > Philosophy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

After ANT: complexity, naming and topology / John Law -- On recalling ANT / Bruno Latour -- Perpetuum mobile: substance, force and the sociology of translation / Steven D. Brown and Rose Capdevila -- From Blindness to blindness: museums, heterogeneity and the subject / Kevin Hetherington -- Ontological politics. A word and some questions / Annemarie Mol -- Who Pays? Can we pay them back? / Nick Lee and Paul Stenner -- Materiality: juggling sameness and difference / Anni Dugdale -- Staying true to the laughter in Nigerian classrooms / Helen Verran -- What is intellectual property after? / Marilyn Strathern -- Actor-network theory -- the market test / Michel Callon -- Good passages, bad passages / Ingunn Moser and John Law -- A sociology of attachment: music amateurs, drug users / Emilie Gomart and Antoine Hennion.

ISBN

0631211942 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 41017407
• SCSB-12687185

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library