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Author(s): Jan-Hendrik Passoth, Birgit Peuker, Michael Schillmeier (eds.)
ISBN(s): 9780415603423, 0415603420
Edition: 1
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Year: 2012
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ISBN 10: 0415603420

ISBN 13: 9780415603423

Author: Jan-Hendrik Passoth, Birgit Peuker, Michael Schillmeier

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 agency tries to understand social-technical, political and environmental networks as different forms of agency that produce discrete and identifiable entities asks how different types of (often conflicting) agency and agents are distinguished in practice, how they are maintained and how they interfere with each other. By studying the substantial impact of the role of non-humans in connection with human relations, the book aims to advance the discourse on agency and investigates into the different possible modes of human and nonhuman interplay. This book is essential reading for students and scholars of sociology, science and technology studies, social anthropology, animal studies, environmental studies and social theory.

Table of contents:

1. Introduction

Part I: Events, suggestions, accounts

2. Suggestion and satisfaction. On the actual occasion of agency

3. Science, cosmopolitics and the question of agency. Kant’s critique and Stengers’ event

4. Questioning the human/non-human distinction

5. Agency and “worlds” of accounts. Erasing the trace or rephrasing the action?

Part II: Contribution, distribution, failures

6. Distributed agency and advanced technology. Or: how to analyze constellations of collective inter-agency

7. Distributed sleeping and breathing. On the agency of means in medical work

8. Agencies’ democracy. “Contribution” as a paradigm to (re)thinking the common in a world of conflict

9. Reality failures

Part III: Interaction, Partnership, Organization

10. “What’s the story?” Organizing as a mode of existence

11. Researching water quality with non-humans. An ANT account

12. Horses – significant others, people’s companions, and subtle actors

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