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Actor-network theory and material semiotics
John Law
- pp 141-158
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In this article, the authors describe the development of actor-network theory and feminist material semiotics by exploring case studies within Science and Technology Studies (STS), and note that STS develops its theoretical approaches through empirical case studies, and unless this is understood it is difficult to understand the significance of 'actor network theory' or any other STS theory or approach.Abstract:
This chapter describes the development of actor-network theory and feminist material semiotics by exploring case studies within STS (science and technology studies). It notes that STS (and so material semiotics) develops its theoretical approaches through empirical case studies, and notes that unless this is understood it is difficult to understand the significance of 'actor network theory' or any other STS theory or approach.read more
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Bruno Latour, The pasteurization of France , trans. Alan Sheridan and John Law, Cambridge, Mass., and London, Harvard University Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. 273, £23.95. - Georges Canguilhem, Ideology and rationality in the history of the life sciences , trans. Arthur Goldhammer, Cambridge, Mass., and London, The MIT Press, 1988, 8vo, pp. xi, 160, £17.95.
TL;DR: The Pasteurization of France can be viewed as a battle, with its field and its myriad contestants, in which opposing sides attempted to mould and coerce various forces of resistance.
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Why Study Problematizations? Making Politics Visible
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce the theoretical concept of problematization as it is developed in Foucauldian-inspired poststructural analysis, and show how such a study politicizes taken-for-granted "truths" and how this analytic approach opens up novel ways of approaching the study of public policy, politics and comparative politics.
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On assemblages and geography
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore what assemblage thinking offers social-spatial theory by asking what questions or problems assemblages responds to or opens up, using a set of questions and answers.
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Assemblages and Actor-networks: Rethinking Socio-material Power, Politics and Space
TL;DR: This article reviewed the current scholarship in human geography which clusters around the four themes of deterritorialization/reterritorialisation; power; materials, objects and technologies; and topological space.
Actor-Network Theory: sensitive terms and enduring tensions
TL;DR: In this presentation of "Actor Network Theory" the terms "actor", "network", "theory", as well as the terms "'order" and "coordination", will be explored.
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
TL;DR: Foucault shows the development of the Western system of prisons, police organizations, administrative and legal hierarchies for social control and the growth of disciplinary society as a whole as discussed by the authors.