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Writing Nature

Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies, 2016
This special issue of the Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies is interested in how nature, in different versions and forms, is invited into our studies, analyses, and stories. How is it that we “write nature”? How is it that we provide space
Kristin Asdal, Gro Birgit Ween
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Actor-relational planning in deprived areas : challenges and opportunities in luchtbal Antwerpen, Belgium [PDF]

, 2015
In this article we report and discuss our experience with actor relational approaches in the regeneration of a post war housing estate in Luchtbal, Antwerp, Belgium.
Boelens, Luuk, Coppens, Tom
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Globalising assessment: an ethnography of literacy assessment, camels and fast food in the Mongolian Gobi [PDF]

, 2014
What happens when standardised literacy assessments travel globally? The paper presents an ethnographic account of adult literacy assessment events in rural Mongolia.
Bernstein B, Blommaert J, Bourdieu P., Bryan Maddox, Callon M, Fenwick T., Goodwin C., Goodwin C., Hambleton R, Hamilton M, Humphrey C., Kell C, Kirsch I., Latour B, OECD, Rizvi F., Sneath D, Waltz S. B.   +17 more
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Embedding the “Black Box”: A reformulated social capital theory for the exploration of socio-physical linkages

Cogent Social Sciences, 2015
This article contends that many critics of social capital have failed to note a gradual but significant evolution taking place at the fringes of the theory.
Laurie Parsons
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Up the ANTe: Understanding Entrepreneurial Leadership Learning through Actor-network Theory [PDF]

, 2017
This paper explores the role of educators in supporting the development of entrepreneurial leadership learning though creating peer learning networks of owner-managers of small businesses. Using actor-network theory as a lens we think through the process
Akrich M, Alvesson M, Bosworth DL, Bryman A, Callon M, Easterby-Smith M, Fox S, Geertz C, Glaser BG, Henley A, King N, Latour B, Latour B, Latour B, Latour B., Law J, Law J, McBride N, McCall MW, Merriam SB, Smith S   +20 more
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Actor-network Theory and cartography of controversies in Information Science

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The present study aims to discuss the interactions between the Actor-network Theory and the Cartography of Controversies method in Information Science research.
Ramon Fernandes LOURENÇO, Maria Inês TOMAÉL   +1 more
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Poststructuralism against poststructuralism: Actor-network theory, organizations and economic markets [PDF]

, 2011
This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below. Copyright @ 2012 The Author.In recent years, actor-network theory (ANT) has become an increasingly influential theoretical framework through which to ...
Roberts, JM
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Actor-network theory-based applications in sustainability: A systematic literature review

Cleaner Production Letters
Sustainability is a multifaceted endeavor that underscores the interdependence between society and nature. Its complexity arises from a delicate balance among four sustainability dimensions: economic, environmental, social, and durational. Achieving this
Kadia Georges Aka
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A ciência como rede de atores: ressonâncias filosóficas Science as a network of actors: philosophical resonance

História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, 2004
O objetivo deste artigo é analisar as conseqüências filosóficas da teoria ator-rede para os estudos acerca das ciências. Esta teoria tem renovado o debate em torno das ciências, por enfatizar a investigação da ciência em ação, isto é, tal como ela é ...
Marcia Moraes
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Georg Brandes as an Actor Narrating a Story about Poland

Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Philologica, 2023
The aim of the article is to investigate Brandes’s impact on the Poles’ self-image and to explain how he became an actor in an internal Polish network of relationships. Three aspects have been analysed with regard to this aim: the reception of Brandes in
Sylwia Izabela Schab
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