The Routledge Companion to Actor-Network Theory (Hardcover)

Lists of figures List of contributors Acknowledgements Actor-network theory as companion: An inquiry into intellectual practices Section 1 - ANT as an intellectual practice Why and how should we distinguish between modes of doing ANT? Daniel Lopez Gomez How to make concepts with ANT? Adrian Mackenzie Is ANT a critique of capital? Fabian Muniesa How to use ANT in inventive ways so that its critique will not run out of steam? Michael Guggenheim Is ANT’s radical empiricism ethnographic? Brit Ross Winthereik Can ANT compare with anthropology? Atsuro Morita How to write after performativity? Jose Ossandon 　 Section 2 - Engaging dialogues with key intellectual companions What can ANT still learn from semiotics? Alvise Mattozzi What can ANT learn from the anthropology of writing? Jerome Pontille What else besides publics could ANT learn from pragmatism? Noortje Marres What is the relevance of Stengers to ANT? Martin Savransky Would we have been better off if ANT had indeed flagged its Deleuzian roots by being called actant-rhizome ontology? Casper Bruun Jensen Why does ANT need Haraway for thinking about (gendered) bodies? Ericka Johnson How does thinking with dementing bodies and A.N. Whitehead reassemble central propositions of ANT? Michael Schillmeier 　 Section 3 - Illicit trading zones of ANT ? critical provocations What so often goes wrong when people become interested in the non-human? Nigel Clark How to stage a convergence between ANT and Southern Sociologies? Marcelo C. Rosa Is ANT capable of tracing spaces of affect? Derek McCormack What possibilities would a queer actor-network theory generate? Kane Race How can ANT learn from contemporary art? Francis Halsall How to care for our accounts? Sonja Jerak Zuiderent What might ANT learn about difference from Chinese medicine? Wen-Yuan Lin 　 Section 4 - Translating ANT　beyond science and technology But what about race? Amade M’charek & Irene Oorschot What might we learn from ANT for studying health care issues in the majority world, and what might ANT learn in turn? Uli Beisel What is the value of ANT research into economic valuation devices? Liliana Doganova How does ANT help us rethink the city? Alexa Farber Can ANT cope with subjectivity? Arthuro Arruda Leal Ferreira Why do maintenance and repair matter? David Denis Section 5 - The sites and scales of ANT Are parliaments still today privileged sites for studying politics and liberal democracy and at what price? Endre Danyi Is ANT equally good in dealing with local, national, and global natures? Kristin Asdal What happens to ANT, and its emphasis on the socio-material grounding of the social, in digital sociology? Carolin Gerlitz　& Ester Weltervrede How do ANT and architectural notions of sites speak to each other? Albena Yaneva and Brett Mommersteeg Does the South Korean city of Kyongju make a specific difference to how ANT can think the category of place? Robert Oppenheim What is ontologically challenging about Paraguayan soybeans when they enter the courtroom? Kregg Heatherington 　 Section 6 - The uses of ANT for public-professional engagement Can ANT be a form of activism? Tomas S. Criado and Israel Rodriguez-Giralt Has ANT been helpful for public anthropology after the 3.11 disaster in Japan? Shuhei Kimura & Kohei Inose How can we to move beyond the dialogism of ‘the parliament of things’ and the ‘hybrid forum’ when rethinking participatory experiments with ANT? Claire Waterton and Emma Cardwell How well does ANT equip designers for socio-material speculations? Alex Wilkie How to run a hospital with ANT? Yuri Carvajal Banados Index