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Creative Agency / Creative Ecologies
2018Harris reviews how their recent research has led to the establishment of Creative Agency, an interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral research lab at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. Creative Agency is what Barad has described as the kind of creative intra-action (“the mutual constitution of entangled agencies,” [Meeting the universe halfway ...
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Ecologizing democratic theory: Agency, representation, animacy
Contemporary Political Theory, 2021Agency and representation are viewed as preconditions for democratic action. The dominant understanding of agency and representation is defined in terms of certain capacities and abilities that are considered to constitute the basis of personhood. The article will put into question this understanding and the assumptions that underpin it and argue that ...
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Trees and Ecological Agency in Scandinavia
Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and CultureTrees are increasingly emerging as lively beings in forest management in Scandinavia. Based on anthropological fieldwork and archival research in the three Scandinavian countries, I examine human encounters with trees and their ‘will to grow’ with a view to discuss the ethical dilemmas involved in the recognition of the ecological agency of trees ...
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Toward an Ecological Approach to Agency
2019In this chapter, I offer a sketch of some key aspects that should be taken into account for proposing a theory of agency based on the main contributions of the ecological approach. In this sense, the conclusions of this chapter are far from offering a full-blown approach to agency from an ecological standpoint; I simply aim to provide some ideas and ...
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Self and Agency in Context: Ecologies of Abundance and Scarcity
International Perspectives in Psychology, 2012This work considers sociocultural foundations of self and agency in material affordances associated with affluence and poverty. We first review work that links independent self-construal and disjoint agency to material abundance. We then report an experiment among students at North American ( n = 52) and West African ( n = 60) universities, in which ...
Glenn Adams +2 more
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Collective Agency and Ecological Relationships
This presentation is divided into two parts. In the first, the author introduces Collective Agency Theory and the Layered Model of Agency (Mendoza-Collazos, 2025) as a tool for studying the normativity of agents and promoting systemic structural changes through the arts and design.openaire +1 more source
How is agency possible? Towards an ecological understanding of agency-as-achievement
2006Working paper ...
BIESTA, Gert, Tedder, M.
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An Ecological Approach to Teacher Agency in English Curriculum Design at Korean Secondary Schools
Curriculum and Teaching, 2023Josephine Moate +2 more
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