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1 online resource (229 pages) |
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Routledge Advances in Sociology |
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Routledge advances in sociology.
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Front Cover; Agency without Actors?; Copyright Page; Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Jan-HendrikPassoth, Birgit Peuker and Michael Schillmeier; Part I: Events, suggestions, accounts; 2. Suggestion and satisfaction. On the actual occasion ofagency: Paul Stronge and Mike Michael; 3. Science, cosmopolitics and the question of agency. Kant's critique and Stengers' event: Michael Schillmeier; 4. Questioning the human/non-human distinction: Florence Rudolf; 5. Agency and "worlds" of accounts. Erasing the trace or rephrasing the action?: Rolland Munro |
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Part II: Contribution, distribution, failures6. Distributed agency and advanced technology. Or: how to analyze constellations of collective inter-agency: Werner Rammert; 7. Distributed sleeping and breathing. On the agency of means in medical work: Cornelius Schubert; 8. Agencies' democracy: "Contribution" as a paradigm to (re)thinking the common in a world of conflict: Jacques Roux; 9. Reality failures: John Law; Part III: Interaction, partnership, organization; 10. "What's the story?": Organizing as a mode of existence: Bruno Latour |
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11. Researching water quality with non-humans. An ANT account: Christelle Gramaglia and Delaine Sampaio da Silva12. Horses -- significant others, people's companions, and subtle actors: Marion Mangelsdorf; Index |
| Summary |
The question of agency is a key issue in social theory and research. The discourse of human agency as an effect of social relations is deeply intertwined with the history of sociological thought. However, in most recent discussions the role of non-humans gains a substantial impact concerning agency. Agency without Actors? New Approaches to Collective Action asks: Are nonhumans active, do they have agency? And if so: how and in which different ways? Consequently, Agency without Actors? New Approaches to Collective Action outlines a wide range of novel accounts that link human and non-human agen |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Peuker, Birgit
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Schillmeier, Michael
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| ISBN |
9780203834695 |
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0203834690 |
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