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University of Manchester
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Gottschling, Paul Thomas.
To submit is to relate: A study of architectural
competitions within networks of practice.
Degree: 2016, University of Manchester
URL: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:296624 
► This is a study of architectural competitions as they engage with the design practices of architects within the UK and Europe. Since only one firm…
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▼ This is a study of architectural competitions as
they engage with the design practices of architects within the UK
and Europe. Since only one firm or one design emerges at the end,
and the project programme exists prior to the submissions, there
tends to be a gap between programme and practice, past and future,
language and situation. It is the aim of this research to
investigate what changes in our understanding of architectural
practice when we acknowledge that architects work to linear
programmes and submit deliverables within the set of relations that
make up the competition. In conducting this research I address a
gap in the social scientific understanding of architectural
practice. While ethnographies of architectural studios have
described the way design emerges through an interplay of humans and
nonhumans, formats or structures like the competition have not yet
become analytical categories in the ethnographic literature. To
bridge what seems like a gap between the immaterial world of the
competition and the material world of the studio, I draw from
actor-
network theory to view the competition as a set of relations
that include objects and practices. Considering the technology of
the competition, I follow five different strands of research. I
identify the matters of concern that architects talk about when
they talk about competitions; examine the documents involved in
administering a competition; follow an atelier at an architectural
school where students participate regularly in competitions;
observe the Office of Metropolitan Architecture prepare a concept
design; and visit an exhibition of submissions. Here I describe the
ways in which competitions come together within the practice of
architects. This study makes three contributions. First, the study
adds to our understanding of architecture as a set of relations,
rather than a stable identity. The second contribution has to do
with language and practice, demonstrating that ‘big’ categories
like ‘building’ nevertheless act within collectives of architects,
clients, contractors and so on. A final implication is for methods.
Since certain categories exist between sites, organising the
activity of actors in different offices across what might be
hundreds of miles, ethnographic fieldwork on architecture can
become fragmented and multi-sited. The implications of the
architectural competition for an ethnographic understanding of
architectural practice, then, are to see more and ‘bigger’
collectives within the lives of architects.
Advisors/Committee Members: MINUCHIN, LEANDRO L, Yaneva, Albena, Minuchin, Leandro.
Subjects/Keywords: Architectural competitions; Actor network theory
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Gottschling, P. T. (2016). To submit is to relate: A study of architectural
competitions within networks of practice. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Manchester. Retrieved from http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:296624
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Gottschling, Paul Thomas. “To submit is to relate: A study of architectural
competitions within networks of practice.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Manchester. Accessed February 27, 2021.
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:296624.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Gottschling, Paul Thomas. “To submit is to relate: A study of architectural
competitions within networks of practice.” 2016. Web. 27 Feb 2021.
Vancouver:
Gottschling PT. To submit is to relate: A study of architectural
competitions within networks of practice. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Manchester; 2016. [cited 2021 Feb 27].
Available from: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:296624.
Council of Science Editors:
Gottschling PT. To submit is to relate: A study of architectural
competitions within networks of practice. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Manchester; 2016. Available from: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:296624
Temple University
2.
Fleming, Eric Felton.
Situating Creativity: Developing a Non-Cartesian Approach to the Creative Process.
Degree: PhD, 2013, Temple University
URL: http://digital.library.temple.edu/u?/p245801coll10,216542
► Philosophy
In this dissertation I argue that creativity should be understood as a situated and distributed process. As I develop my approach to understanding creativity…
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▼ Philosophy
In this dissertation I argue that creativity should be understood as a situated and distributed process. As I develop my approach to understanding creativity over the course of this dissertation, three core claims emerge: 1) that the creative powers of particular agents are constituted within the concrete circumstances (both social and material) in which they are situated, 2) that the creative process itself unfolds across networks of associating actors, and 3) that these networks of associating actors include nonhumans of diverse sorts as active participants in the creative process. Understanding the creative process in this way distinguishes my approach from the ways in which creativity has traditionally been understood, which I argue are marked by a deep Cartesianism. This Cartesianism manifests itself in the way that creativity is predominantly studied and conceived of as a cognitive process that occurs within the minds of individuals. Because creativity is seen to occur within the minds of individuals, and because these minds are seen to function autonomously of their context, there is a resulting lack of attention to how the creative process is shaped by and extended out into the material and social environment. Furthermore, because creativity is understood to be solely a manifestation of human agency and human intentions, the active role of nonhumans in the creative process has not been taking into account. Drawing upon literature within feminist epistemology, cognitive science, science and technology studies, disability theory, and situated action theory, I argue that to better understand creativity, we must consider the creative process as it occurs within particular social and material environments, as it is distributed across diverse networks of actors, and as it is shaped in essential ways by nonhuman actors. It is only by considering creativity in its context, out in the world and in the interactions between things, that we can get an adequate understanding of the creative process.
Temple University – Theses
Advisors/Committee Members: Solomon, Miriam;, Alperson, Philip, Margolis, Joseph, Carvalho, John;.
Subjects/Keywords: Philosophy;
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Fleming, E. F. (2013). Situating Creativity: Developing a Non-Cartesian Approach to the Creative Process. (Doctoral Dissertation). Temple University. Retrieved from http://digital.library.temple.edu/u?/p245801coll10,216542
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Fleming, Eric Felton. “Situating Creativity: Developing a Non-Cartesian Approach to the Creative Process.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, Temple University. Accessed February 27, 2021.
http://digital.library.temple.edu/u?/p245801coll10,216542.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Fleming, Eric Felton. “Situating Creativity: Developing a Non-Cartesian Approach to the Creative Process.” 2013. Web. 27 Feb 2021.
Vancouver:
Fleming EF. Situating Creativity: Developing a Non-Cartesian Approach to the Creative Process. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Temple University; 2013. [cited 2021 Feb 27].
Available from: http://digital.library.temple.edu/u?/p245801coll10,216542.
Council of Science Editors:
Fleming EF. Situating Creativity: Developing a Non-Cartesian Approach to the Creative Process. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Temple University; 2013. Available from: http://digital.library.temple.edu/u?/p245801coll10,216542
University of Alberta
3.
Parker, Lindsay R.
"When none can call our power to account":
Translating Sleepwalking in Discursive Practices.
Degree: PhD, Comparative Literature, 2012, University of Alberta
URL: https://era.library.ualberta.ca/files/2227mp866
► This interdisciplinary dissertation makes an original contribution by examining the sleepwalker in terms of medical, legal, and cultural categories in literature, film, and opera. It…
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▼ This interdisciplinary dissertation makes an original
contribution by examining the sleepwalker in terms of medical,
legal, and cultural categories in literature, film, and opera. It
addresses medical research and medico-legal contexts in relation to
diagnostic power and institutional authority over sleepwalking.
Moreover, it argues that the sleepwalker is a productive subject
and explores the cultural constructions and discursive practices of
sleepwalking in medicine, law, literature, and film. Across the
dissertation, critical attention is given to historical case
studies, Shakespeare’s Lady Macbeth in the context of ecocritical
readings, and Robert Wiene’s film, Das Kabinett des Dr. Caligari,
in regard to the current debate on the conflict between
somnambulism and hypnotic crime. In the analysis here advanced, the
dissertation’s research draws on theories from science and
technology studies, the sociology of translation, and actor network
theory.
Subjects/Keywords: discursive practice; somnambulism; actor network theory; sleepwalking
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Parker, L. R. (2012). "When none can call our power to account":
Translating Sleepwalking in Discursive Practices. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Alberta. Retrieved from https://era.library.ualberta.ca/files/2227mp866
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Parker, Lindsay R. “"When none can call our power to account":
Translating Sleepwalking in Discursive Practices.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Alberta. Accessed February 27, 2021.
https://era.library.ualberta.ca/files/2227mp866.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Parker, Lindsay R. “"When none can call our power to account":
Translating Sleepwalking in Discursive Practices.” 2012. Web. 27 Feb 2021.
Vancouver:
Parker LR. "When none can call our power to account":
Translating Sleepwalking in Discursive Practices. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Alberta; 2012. [cited 2021 Feb 27].
Available from: https://era.library.ualberta.ca/files/2227mp866.
Council of Science Editors:
Parker LR. "When none can call our power to account":
Translating Sleepwalking in Discursive Practices. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Alberta; 2012. Available from: https://era.library.ualberta.ca/files/2227mp866
University of Ottawa
4.
Andrews, Erin.
Navigating Land Rights Institutions in the Greater Accra Region of Southern Ghana: An Actor Network Theory Approach
.
Degree: 2018, University of Ottawa
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10393/37072
► Especially since the publication of Hernando De Soto’s book The Mystery of Capital in 2000, there has been a great deal of scholarship on the…
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▼ Especially since the publication of Hernando De Soto’s book The Mystery of Capital in 2000, there has been a great deal of scholarship on the relationship between property rights and economic growth. There is fairly broad consensus among policy makers and many academics that secure property rights have a wide range of benefits but significantly less agreement on what impedes secure property rights in developing countries, what types of rights work best and under what circumstances, or how to improve the situation in developing countries. Through a case study of land institutions and reform in the Greater Accra Region of Southern Ghana this thesis examines the complexities of overlapping and often contradictory land tenure regimes. Actor Network Theory is used to analyze the role of the various actors, including humans, organizations, and material actors, like documents. I argue that although the system of land rights institutions in Ghana is extremely complex, one of the main challenges is a relatively simple one: the materiality of the documents, and the related costs of producing, storing, managing, and maintaining them., Despite attempts by the state, with the support of the World Bank, to codify existing land relations, transaction costs have not been dramatically reduced. The result is a complicated environment of institutional pluralism, in which the documents involved in registration have taken on a life of their own, where users must recruit these material actors to support their land claims if they wish to have their rights protected. This process of producing and collecting documents to support their land claims can be costly for landholders, in terms of both time and money. In this way, the centrality of documents can be burdensome for landholders, but also creates interesting opportunities for landholders to mobilize land documents in unconventional ways in order to support their claims and seek protection for their rights to land. Especially since the publication of Hernando De Soto’s book The Mystery of Capital in 2000, there has been a great deal of scholarship on the relationship between property rights and economic growth. There is fairly broad consensus among policy makers and many academics that secure property rights have a wide range of benefits but significantly less agreement on what impedes secure property rights in developing countries, what types of rights work best and under what circumstances, or how to improve the situation in developing countries. Through a case study of land institutions and reform in the Greater Accra Region of Southern Ghana this thesis examines the complexities of overlapping and often contradictory land tenure regimes. Actor Network Theory is used to analyze the role of the various actors, including humans, organizations, and material actors, like documents. I argue that although the system of land rights institutions in Ghana is extremely complex, one of the main challenges is a relatively simple one: the materiality of the documents, and the related costs of…
Subjects/Keywords: Land;
Institutions;
Ghana;
Actor Network Theory
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Andrews, E. (2018). Navigating Land Rights Institutions in the Greater Accra Region of Southern Ghana: An Actor Network Theory Approach
. (Thesis). University of Ottawa. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10393/37072
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Andrews, Erin. “Navigating Land Rights Institutions in the Greater Accra Region of Southern Ghana: An Actor Network Theory Approach
.” 2018. Thesis, University of Ottawa. Accessed February 27, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10393/37072.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Andrews, Erin. “Navigating Land Rights Institutions in the Greater Accra Region of Southern Ghana: An Actor Network Theory Approach
.” 2018. Web. 27 Feb 2021.
Vancouver:
Andrews E. Navigating Land Rights Institutions in the Greater Accra Region of Southern Ghana: An Actor Network Theory Approach
. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Ottawa; 2018. [cited 2021 Feb 27].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10393/37072.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Andrews E. Navigating Land Rights Institutions in the Greater Accra Region of Southern Ghana: An Actor Network Theory Approach
. [Thesis]. University of Ottawa; 2018. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10393/37072
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
University of Manchester
5.
Crawshaw, Julie Scott.
Beyond Targets: Articulating the role of art in
regeneration.
Degree: 2013, University of Manchester
URL: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:187058
► AbstractBeyond Targets: articulating the role of art in regenerationJulie Crawshaw: Doctor of Philosophy, University of Manchester, 2012An anthropological study of urban practice, this thesis contributes…
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▼ AbstractBeyond Targets: articulating the role of
art in regenerationJulie Crawshaw: Doctor of Philosophy, University
of Manchester, 2012An anthropological study of urban practice, this
thesis contributes a nuanced understanding of the role of visual
art in regeneration. Inspired by the experiential philosophy of
Dewey (1934), we have traced the effects mobilised by art as part
of urban transformation. The literature of cultural policy and
‘culture-led regeneration’ (Vickery, 2007), discusses art as
physical artworks, in support of development; or as
socially-engaged practice, in support of social renewal. Through
tracing the movements of all the actors involved, our research goes
beyond explanation in support of policy targets. We have described
what happens in practice, on its own terms. To account for a range
of professional perspectives, the research included four empirical
studies at different proximities to practice: an exploratory study
embedded in art practice; eighteen in-depth interviews with a range
of art and regeneration professionals; sixteen in-depth interviews
with practitioners of an Urban Regeneration Company (URC) case
study; and a six-month ethnography of the same URC case. Accounting
for the agency of humans and non-humans (Latour, 2007a), our
explications took close account of the effects produced by the
associations of urban relationships, between: engineers, planners,
construction workers, and artists; as well as plans and drawings,
objects, materials, concepts, ideas and natural elements. Through
tracing actors at the ‘microscopic’ (Geertz, 1973) scale, we did
not observe art as ‘works’, but the way art works as a driver for
re-imagining the urban.In practice, we see regeneration not as
buildings or communities, but as a continuous process of re-shaping
human-physical relationships. As part of this relational
network,
art ‘mediates’ (Hennion, 1997) participation, collaboration and
reflection on the ambitions of regeneration: producing new ideas
for urban possibilities. The effects are produced through the
continuous associations between ‘inner’ (human) and ‘outer’
(physical) materials. These material associations meld to create a
neutral platform for professionals to shift from their usual remit;
to re-consider the ‘big picture’ from a new perspective.
Regeneration is an active part of the political landscape. As a
catalyst for urban imagination, rather than deliver policy
objectives, art re-shapes them. Through tracing practice this
research contributes new understandings to the study of art and
regeneration. By revealing urban networks through tracing art,
rather than explaining regeneration as physical or social, we have
made a contribution to urban studies by describing the micro
movements of regeneration as a relational practice. As a
contribution to art studies, through tracing how art works in
regeneration, we have produced nuanced descriptions of how art
‘mediates’ action and reflection in and on urban practice. As a
contribution to policy and practice, we have articulated the role
of…
Advisors/Committee Members: TIPPETT, JOANNE J, Tippett, Joanne, Yaneva, Albena.
Subjects/Keywords: Art; Regeneration; Actor-Network Theory; Anthropology
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Crawshaw, J. S. (2013). Beyond Targets: Articulating the role of art in
regeneration. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Manchester. Retrieved from http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:187058
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Crawshaw, Julie Scott. “Beyond Targets: Articulating the role of art in
regeneration.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Manchester. Accessed February 27, 2021.
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:187058.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Crawshaw, Julie Scott. “Beyond Targets: Articulating the role of art in
regeneration.” 2013. Web. 27 Feb 2021.
Vancouver:
Crawshaw JS. Beyond Targets: Articulating the role of art in
regeneration. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Manchester; 2013. [cited 2021 Feb 27].
Available from: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:187058.
Council of Science Editors:
Crawshaw JS. Beyond Targets: Articulating the role of art in
regeneration. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Manchester; 2013. Available from: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/escholar/uk-ac-man-scw:187058
University of Otago
6.
Walsh, Neil Michael.
The Social Performance of Backpacking: An ontogenesis. How are backpacking identities organised, constituted and performed?
.
Degree: 2014, University of Otago
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10523/4646
► How are Western backpacking identities organised, constituted and performed? A scenario understood as ‘backpacker-becoming’ is described as a process in which individual backpackers are activated,…
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▼ How are Western backpacking identities organised, constituted and performed? A scenario understood as ‘backpacker-becoming’ is described as a process in which individual backpackers are activated, that is, continually negotiated through performances which are discursive, corporeal, and materially embedded. Adopting performativity, (the production of effects through re-iteration) as a theoretical underpinning to my thesis; in the first, as a deconstructive tool, but later as a reconnective fabric, I explore how backpacking identity is ontologised, that is, brought into being. Backpacker’s are constituted in ideology and discourse, in the relations between themselves and other backpackers, yet also with the ‘things’ or ‘non-humans’ in the world that surrounds them. Backpacking is supported by an assembly of objects and material ‘things’. This includes guidebooks, luggage, clothing, souvenirs, equipment, belongings and various paraphernalia that contribute to the minutiae and sentience of this social world. Importantly these things ‘coalesce’ and ‘mean’ differently in various spaces and contexts. Hence, I am critically concerned with the performative effects of each composite realm within the performance of backpacking; discourse and ‘materialised’ bodies-in-spaces. Thus, an ontogenesis of backpacking is a study of the social lives of backpackers and their associated artefacts. In the thesis I trace the genesis of backpacking identity formation. Through this process I examine the way in which Western backpackers both reassert and resist hierarchical dualisms of self/other, tourist/traveller, West/East and alternative/mass. I present a research methodology and theoretical framework that identifies socio-cultural and material ontologisations within the contemporary performance of backpacking. My basic point is that the people and things of backpacking tourism do important social and cultural work that perform the identities of backpacking travellers. My research is methodologically underpinned with a hybrid (auto)ethnography that acknowledges my prior backpacking experience and utilises the empirical material gathered during a five month ethnography across various locations on Thailand. This stylised, personal and performative ethnography is used to critically engage and assess ontological praxis in the social performance of backpacking. My thesis falls under the branch of tourism research concerned with tourist ontology and the wider question what constitutes particular travellers? Furthermore, I ask just how is ontology manifest in backpacking- praxis, bodies, and place? In short, I seek to address the following concerns, how is backpacking identity performed and what are the (material and semiotic) parameters within which practices of backpacking identity performance occur?
This process permits deconstruction, as a point of departure, yet to compliment a auto-ethnographic methodology, itself a mode of critical social constructionism, I (re)constitute backpacking with a politics of connectivity. In sum, I consider…
Advisors/Committee Members: Tucker, Hazel Mary (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Performativity;
Identity;
Backpacking;
Actor-network Theory
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Walsh, N. M. (2014). The Social Performance of Backpacking: An ontogenesis. How are backpacking identities organised, constituted and performed?
. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Otago. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10523/4646
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Walsh, Neil Michael. “The Social Performance of Backpacking: An ontogenesis. How are backpacking identities organised, constituted and performed?
.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Otago. Accessed February 27, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10523/4646.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Walsh, Neil Michael. “The Social Performance of Backpacking: An ontogenesis. How are backpacking identities organised, constituted and performed?
.” 2014. Web. 27 Feb 2021.
Vancouver:
Walsh NM. The Social Performance of Backpacking: An ontogenesis. How are backpacking identities organised, constituted and performed?
. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Otago; 2014. [cited 2021 Feb 27].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10523/4646.
Council of Science Editors:
Walsh NM. The Social Performance of Backpacking: An ontogenesis. How are backpacking identities organised, constituted and performed?
. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Otago; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10523/4646
University of Guelph
7.
Van Bemmel, Alexis.
Wasting Food is Rubbish: Barriers and Opportunities for Food Waste Diversion in Guelph, ON.
Degree: MA, Department of Geography, 2016, University of Guelph
URL: https://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/xmlui/handle/10214/9963
► Food waste is a serious global issue that has significant environmental, economic, and social impacts. While increasing attention is being paid to this problem, little…
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▼ Food waste is a serious global issue that has significant environmental, economic, and social impacts. While increasing attention is being paid to this problem, little region specific research exists on food waste in Canada, and Southwestern Ontario in specific. This research investigates the flow of food waste along the food waste hierarchy in Guelph, ON in order to identify barriers, motivations, and opportunities to increase food waste diversion. 33 respondents along the food value chain participated in semi-structured interviews to provide insight for this research. An
actor-
network approach was employed to examine the socio-material aspects of food waste and the paths it takes, which revealed that many of the findings relate to the materiality of food/waste. This research contributes to a greater understanding of how we relate to both food and waste systems, and provides recommendations for food waste solutions across the value chain.
Advisors/Committee Members: Parizeau, Kate (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: food waste; materiality; actor-network theory
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Van Bemmel, A. (2016). Wasting Food is Rubbish: Barriers and Opportunities for Food Waste Diversion in Guelph, ON. (Masters Thesis). University of Guelph. Retrieved from https://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/xmlui/handle/10214/9963
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Van Bemmel, Alexis. “Wasting Food is Rubbish: Barriers and Opportunities for Food Waste Diversion in Guelph, ON.” 2016. Masters Thesis, University of Guelph. Accessed February 27, 2021.
https://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/xmlui/handle/10214/9963.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Van Bemmel, Alexis. “Wasting Food is Rubbish: Barriers and Opportunities for Food Waste Diversion in Guelph, ON.” 2016. Web. 27 Feb 2021.
Vancouver:
Van Bemmel A. Wasting Food is Rubbish: Barriers and Opportunities for Food Waste Diversion in Guelph, ON. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Guelph; 2016. [cited 2021 Feb 27].
Available from: https://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/xmlui/handle/10214/9963.
Council of Science Editors:
Van Bemmel A. Wasting Food is Rubbish: Barriers and Opportunities for Food Waste Diversion in Guelph, ON. [Masters Thesis]. University of Guelph; 2016. Available from: https://atrium.lib.uoguelph.ca/xmlui/handle/10214/9963
8.
MacMullin, Karen.
Technology use in counselling practice: An actor-network theory report.
Degree: 2019, Athabasca University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10791/298
► The purpose of this actor-network theory report on technology use in counselling practice is to present a snapshot of how telecommunications technology is being used…
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▼ The purpose of this actor-network theory report on technology use in counselling practice is to present a snapshot of how telecommunications technology is being used in counselling now and to present opportunities for counsellor responses to technology that could benefit clients, counsellors, and counselling practice. Voices of actors in the network were collected from interviews with counselling professionals, documents from organizational actors, and traces of technological actors present throughout the network. Technology use was presented as an integrated, routine, and often invisible component of contemporary counselling practice. Themes of responsibility, trust, and the unreliability of technology were prominent; these areas can be addressed intentionally and proactively to develop technology use in counseling practice.
2019-11
Advisors/Committee Members: Cook, Karen (Faculty of Health Disciplines), Luft, Toupey (University of Lethbridge), Jerry, Paul (Faculty of Health Disciplines).
Subjects/Keywords: Technology; Counselling Practice; Actor-Network Theory
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MacMullin, K. (2019). Technology use in counselling practice: An actor-network theory report. (Thesis). Athabasca University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10791/298
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
MacMullin, Karen. “Technology use in counselling practice: An actor-network theory report.” 2019. Thesis, Athabasca University. Accessed February 27, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10791/298.
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MacMullin, Karen. “Technology use in counselling practice: An actor-network theory report.” 2019. Web. 27 Feb 2021.
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MacMullin K. Technology use in counselling practice: An actor-network theory report. [Internet] [Thesis]. Athabasca University; 2019. [cited 2021 Feb 27].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10791/298.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
MacMullin K. Technology use in counselling practice: An actor-network theory report. [Thesis]. Athabasca University; 2019. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10791/298
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Columbia University
9.
Obeng, Adam.
Through a Dark Mirror: Answers, Questions, and the Creation of Machine Knowledge.
Degree: 2018, Columbia University
URL: https://doi.org/10.7916/D8MS45C2
► This dissertation addresses the question of the creation of scientific knowledge, in the con- text of an online question-and-answer forum: Stack Overflow. The project starts…
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▼ This dissertation addresses the question of the creation of scientific knowledge, in the con- text of an online question-and-answer forum: Stack Overflow. The project starts from the claim advanced in the philosophy and sociology of science that Nature is not sufficient to settle disputes; for a fact to be created by being accepted as true, it must be justified in discourse. Actor-Network Theory claims that this justification occurs through the mo- bilisation of resources, which are marshalled to make a truth-claim unassailable without also defeating all the supporting resources. I adapt ANT’s claim to the methods of Social Network Analysis. In network terms, the facticity of a claim is measured by its indegree — the number of other claims which are justified by it — and its outdegree measures the count of the resources which justify it.
I first consider answers to Stack Overflow questions, because they are the most straight- forward to describe, and the closest object to what previous analyses of citation networks of academic papers have considered. The central question is how an answer is made to be true, where I find that the more other answers an answer links to, the higher its indegree. In fact, when the measure of outdegree is expanded to include the resources which resources themselves link to, this association is higher still. While referring to users doesn’t matter in itself, referring to users’ posts does, as does having more code. The best predictor of indegree is the number of users linked to. I also find that although more modalised answers matter more, black-boxed answers which are not modalised at all matter the most. Finally, while more resources make an answer more likely to be edited, they do not make it more likely to be defeated and deleted entirely.
But Stack Overflow is also (and primarily) made of questions to which these answers respond, and questions are less addressed by existing theory. The basic conflict is between whether questions are just transparent references to answers, or whether they make their own independent contributions to knowledge. Having established that the network of questions is structurally distinct from the network of answers, I find that questions’ indegree and outdegree are also correlated, but less so than for answers. I find that linking to answers matters, especially when the appropriateness of the answers to the question is taken into account. However, the contributions that questions make independently of their answers, topicality and uniqueness, do not generally matter. Like answers, questions can also be closed rather than answered, and I find that questions that are closed for different reasons have different patterns of answering.
In the final chapter, I consider how the techno-social infrastructure of the site encourages the creation of knowledge. The chapter is spent studying the existence and nature of a Matthew Effect on Stack Overflow, going beyond the results for the distribution of reputation to examine the mechanisms involved in…
Subjects/Keywords: Sociology; Actor-network theory; Knowledge, Sociology of
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Obeng, A. (2018). Through a Dark Mirror: Answers, Questions, and the Creation of Machine Knowledge. (Doctoral Dissertation). Columbia University. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.7916/D8MS45C2
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Obeng, Adam. “Through a Dark Mirror: Answers, Questions, and the Creation of Machine Knowledge.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, Columbia University. Accessed February 27, 2021.
https://doi.org/10.7916/D8MS45C2.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Obeng, Adam. “Through a Dark Mirror: Answers, Questions, and the Creation of Machine Knowledge.” 2018. Web. 27 Feb 2021.
Vancouver:
Obeng A. Through a Dark Mirror: Answers, Questions, and the Creation of Machine Knowledge. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Columbia University; 2018. [cited 2021 Feb 27].
Available from: https://doi.org/10.7916/D8MS45C2.
Council of Science Editors:
Obeng A. Through a Dark Mirror: Answers, Questions, and the Creation of Machine Knowledge. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Columbia University; 2018. Available from: https://doi.org/10.7916/D8MS45C2
University of Manchester
10.
Gottschling, Paul Thomas.
To submit is to relate : a study of architectural competitions within networks of practice.
Degree: PhD, 2016, University of Manchester
URL: https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/to-submit-is-to-relate-a-study-of-architectural-competitions-within-networks-of-practice(c3f8961d-94a8-4c91-91e2-935a6dcc4bf9).html
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http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.680039
► This is a study of architectural competitions as they engage with the design practices of architects within the UK and Europe. Since only one firm…
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▼ This is a study of architectural competitions as they engage with the design practices of architects within the UK and Europe. Since only one firm or one design emerges at the end, and the project programme exists prior to the submissions, there tends to be a gap between programme and practice, past and future, language and situation. It is the aim of this research to investigate what changes in our understanding of architectural practice when we acknowledge that architects work to linear programmes and submit deliverables within the set of relations that make up the competition. In conducting this research I address a gap in the social scientific understanding of architectural practice. While ethnographies of architectural studios have described the way design emerges through an interplay of humans and nonhumans, formats or structures like the competition have not yet become analytical categories in the ethnographic literature. To bridge what seems like a gap between the immaterial world of the competition and the material world of the studio, I draw from actor-network theory to view the competition as a set of relations that include objects and practices. Considering the technology of the competition, I follow five different strands of research. I identify the matters of concern that architects talk about when they talk about competitions; examine the documents involved in administering a competition; follow an atelier at an architectural school where students participate regularly in competitions; observe the Office of Metropolitan Architecture prepare a concept design; and visit an exhibition of submissions. Here I describe the ways in which competitions come together within the practice of architects. This study makes three contributions. First, the study adds to our understanding of architecture as a set of relations, rather than a stable identity. The second contribution has to do with language and practice, demonstrating that ‘big’ categories like ‘building’ nevertheless act within collectives of architects, clients, contractors and so on. A final implication is for methods. Since certain categories exist between sites, organising the activity of actors in different offices across what might be hundreds of miles, ethnographic fieldwork on architecture can become fragmented and multi-sited. The implications of the architectural competition for an ethnographic understanding of architectural practice, then, are to see more and ‘bigger’ collectives within the lives of architects.
Subjects/Keywords: 720.79; Architectural competitions; Actor network theory
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Gottschling, P. T. (2016). To submit is to relate : a study of architectural competitions within networks of practice. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Manchester. Retrieved from https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/to-submit-is-to-relate-a-study-of-architectural-competitions-within-networks-of-practice(c3f8961d-94a8-4c91-91e2-935a6dcc4bf9).html ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.680039
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Gottschling, Paul Thomas. “To submit is to relate : a study of architectural competitions within networks of practice.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Manchester. Accessed February 27, 2021.
https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/to-submit-is-to-relate-a-study-of-architectural-competitions-within-networks-of-practice(c3f8961d-94a8-4c91-91e2-935a6dcc4bf9).html ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.680039.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Gottschling, Paul Thomas. “To submit is to relate : a study of architectural competitions within networks of practice.” 2016. Web. 27 Feb 2021.
Vancouver:
Gottschling PT. To submit is to relate : a study of architectural competitions within networks of practice. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Manchester; 2016. [cited 2021 Feb 27].
Available from: https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/to-submit-is-to-relate-a-study-of-architectural-competitions-within-networks-of-practice(c3f8961d-94a8-4c91-91e2-935a6dcc4bf9).html ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.680039.
Council of Science Editors:
Gottschling PT. To submit is to relate : a study of architectural competitions within networks of practice. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Manchester; 2016. Available from: https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/to-submit-is-to-relate-a-study-of-architectural-competitions-within-networks-of-practice(c3f8961d-94a8-4c91-91e2-935a6dcc4bf9).html ; http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.680039
Uppsala University
11.
Eriksson, Lina.
Vem tar beslut om inte chefen? : -en kvalitativ studie om chefslösa organisationer.
Degree: Sociology, 2016, Uppsala University
URL: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-295504
► Hierarkier har funnits under en lång tid och är för många en självklarhet inom organisationer. Vi vill i denna uppsats undersöka tre organisationer i…
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▼ Hierarkier har funnits under en lång tid och är för många en självklarhet inom organisationer. Vi vill i denna uppsats undersöka tre organisationer i Sverige, som menar att de utmanar den hierarkiska strukturen genom att de inte har några chefer. Syftet med uppsatsen är att öka kunskapen om dessa organisationer genom att undersöka hur beslut tas och färdas. Vi undersöker även vad det är som påverkar beslut och beslutsfattande i dessa organisationer. Tidigare forskning behandlar dels organisationsutveckling ur ett historiskt perspektiv och hur beslut kommer till, olika beslutsmodeller, hur beslut färdas och implementeras och kopplingen mellan beslut och ansvar. Det teoretiska perspektivet är Actor- Network Theory, ANT. Empirin har samlats in genom nio stycken kvalitativa intervjuer. Den har kodats och analyserats utifrån teorins begrepp aktör-nätverk, performativitet, handlingsnät och översättning. Beslut har analyserats som en symbol, vilken kan skapas och färdas inom organisationen med hjälp av olika aktörer. Studien visar på att begreppet beslut är starkt kopplat till ett agerande. Beslut som något performativt blir en översättningskedja som består av många detaljer som lättare beskrivs med ett sammanfattande beskrivande begrepp, beslut, för att kunna begripliggöra vad det är. Vi har även hittat faktorer i materialet som visar på hur beslut är kopplat till den decentraliserade strukturen samt att medarbetaren som individ blir viktig. Slutligen förs en diskussion av resultatet i förhållande till frågeställningar, tidigare forskning, teori och metod samt ger implikationer för vidare forskning inom ämnet.
Subjects/Keywords: chefslösa organisationer; beslut; actor-network theory
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Eriksson, L. (2016). Vem tar beslut om inte chefen? : -en kvalitativ studie om chefslösa organisationer. (Thesis). Uppsala University. Retrieved from http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-295504
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Eriksson, Lina. “Vem tar beslut om inte chefen? : -en kvalitativ studie om chefslösa organisationer.” 2016. Thesis, Uppsala University. Accessed February 27, 2021.
http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-295504.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Eriksson, Lina. “Vem tar beslut om inte chefen? : -en kvalitativ studie om chefslösa organisationer.” 2016. Web. 27 Feb 2021.
Vancouver:
Eriksson L. Vem tar beslut om inte chefen? : -en kvalitativ studie om chefslösa organisationer. [Internet] [Thesis]. Uppsala University; 2016. [cited 2021 Feb 27].
Available from: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-295504.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Eriksson L. Vem tar beslut om inte chefen? : -en kvalitativ studie om chefslösa organisationer. [Thesis]. Uppsala University; 2016. Available from: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-295504
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Victoria University of Wellington
12.
Brown-Haysom, Ryan.
The Mummy's Complaint: An Object-Biography of the Egyptian Mummies in New Zealand Museums, 1885-1897.
Degree: 2013, Victoria University of Wellington
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/3081
► Recent years have seen a revival of interest in material objects in the humanities generally, and in Museum Studies in particular. Although the influence of…
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▼ Recent years have seen a revival of interest in material objects in the humanities generally, and in Museum Studies in particular. Although the influence of this 'material turn' is still in its early stages, one of the manifestations of the renewed interest in the 'life of things' has been the growth of interest in
Actor-
Network Theory, a branch of sociological analysis which attempts to reconstruct the networks of agency through which social existence is created and maintained. One of the more controversial aspects of
Actor-
Network Theory (or ANT) is its willingness to concede a level of agency to non-human and inanimate actors in these 'assemblages'. For Museum Studies, the relevance of this theoretical framework lies in the analysis of museums both as assemblages in their own right, and as actants in a
network of other sites, institutions, technologies, ideologies, and objects. Museum objects, long viewed as inert, can be seen instead as participants in the 'shuffle of agency' that constitutes institutions and inducts them into wider patterns of social activity.
This dissertation uses the case study of Egyptian mummies in New Zealand museums to gauge the usefulness of an ANT-based approach to writing the 'life-history of objects'. Borrowing the concept of the 'object biography' from Kopytoff and Appadurai, it attempts to construct such a history of the five complete Egyptian mummies in New Zealand’s public museums. Using the principles of
Actor-
Network Theory, it attempts to trace the ways in which mummies have been constituted as 'meaningful objects' through the examination of the ways in which they have moved through different assemblages, both globally and within New Zealand, during the twelve years from 1885 to 1897. This was the period during which all five Egyptian mummies entered New Zealand collections, traversing networks of imperialism, scientific knowledge, religious knowledge, and exchange. In the course of their movement through these diverse assemblages, the meaning of mummies – inside and outside the public museum – could be construed in radically different ways.
This dissertation considers the usefulness of such a methodology for Museum Studies and Material Culture Studies, and considers the potential benefits and pitfalls of writing about assemblages for those who want to consider the life-history of objects.
Advisors/Committee Members: McCarthy, Conal.
Subjects/Keywords: Actor-network theory; Museums; Human remains
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Brown-Haysom, R. (2013). The Mummy's Complaint: An Object-Biography of the Egyptian Mummies in New Zealand Museums, 1885-1897. (Masters Thesis). Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10063/3081
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Brown-Haysom, Ryan. “The Mummy's Complaint: An Object-Biography of the Egyptian Mummies in New Zealand Museums, 1885-1897.” 2013. Masters Thesis, Victoria University of Wellington. Accessed February 27, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10063/3081.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Brown-Haysom, Ryan. “The Mummy's Complaint: An Object-Biography of the Egyptian Mummies in New Zealand Museums, 1885-1897.” 2013. Web. 27 Feb 2021.
Vancouver:
Brown-Haysom R. The Mummy's Complaint: An Object-Biography of the Egyptian Mummies in New Zealand Museums, 1885-1897. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2013. [cited 2021 Feb 27].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/3081.
Council of Science Editors:
Brown-Haysom R. The Mummy's Complaint: An Object-Biography of the Egyptian Mummies in New Zealand Museums, 1885-1897. [Masters Thesis]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/3081
University of Melbourne
13.
VESTY, GILLIAN.
Imagining sustainability accounting’s governance as performative through Michel Serres’ ‘natural contract’.
Degree: 2011, University of Melbourne
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/11343/36284
► This thesis addresses recent calls to reformulate accounting’s ‘story’ of its governance as performative, and the need to recognise the strong ties that bind conformance…
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▼ This thesis addresses recent calls to reformulate accounting’s ‘story’ of its governance as performative, and the need to recognise the strong ties that bind conformance to external probity requirements, with development of explicit internal performance standards. With accounting conceptualisations being conditioned by a to-and-fro relationship with countless global others and mobilised in economic, political, scientific, and physical ways, the collective relationship that now characterises accounting has become a diagnosis of our society. Yet this hybridising globality is little understood.
I begin by showing how the hybridising accounting systems work to fulfil what Deleuze identifies as ‘society’s diagram of governance’. Engaging the logic of human relations developed by the philosopher Michel Serres, the thesis then develops a typology as a means to give a performative account of that form of governance. Using two exemplar settings, I first discuss hybridising conformance-performance accounting as clinical governance, connecting ‘good care’ with rational marketplace concerns of efficiency and efficacy. The governance insights provided by this setting are extended to explore a second field of enquiry, the sustainability marketplace, where current accounting systems do not necessarily speak a language of good sustainability care. But they are beginning to.
My analytic framework, referred to as parasitic logic, offers me a set of categories to reveal the contingent activities of clinicians, administrators, accountants, sustainability managers and others as they work to deliver new hybrid orders of clinical and sustainability governance. As a specific configuring, I show how a trilogy of production, exchange and position works to achieve embodied certainty in contracting for collective governance. Hybridising production and exchange are revealed in their attempts to bring the multiplicity of governance arrangements to a collective. The art of practiced knowing is revealed in the moments of exchange where both corporate accountability and professional responsibility are confidently interpolated to effect clinical governance. This is the important clotting or positioning of accounting governance that I bring to the fore; a relational logic by which the collective is bound.
With a focus on practices, I conclude my thesis with discussion on accounting’s performative governance. I contend that in the processes of recognising and foregrounding parasitic logic we have a better general account of human relations in which that governance has life, and hence can make better interventions. We can now see the possibilities for articulating accounting governance in the era of the natural contract.
Subjects/Keywords: accounting; governance; actor-network theory; performativity
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VESTY, G. (2011). Imagining sustainability accounting’s governance as performative through Michel Serres’ ‘natural contract’. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Melbourne. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11343/36284
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
VESTY, GILLIAN. “Imagining sustainability accounting’s governance as performative through Michel Serres’ ‘natural contract’.” 2011. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Melbourne. Accessed February 27, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/11343/36284.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
VESTY, GILLIAN. “Imagining sustainability accounting’s governance as performative through Michel Serres’ ‘natural contract’.” 2011. Web. 27 Feb 2021.
Vancouver:
VESTY G. Imagining sustainability accounting’s governance as performative through Michel Serres’ ‘natural contract’. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Melbourne; 2011. [cited 2021 Feb 27].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11343/36284.
Council of Science Editors:
VESTY G. Imagining sustainability accounting’s governance as performative through Michel Serres’ ‘natural contract’. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Melbourne; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11343/36284
Latrobe University
14.
Yunianto, Tunggul.
Space of disjuncture : place-making and multiplicity of Komplek Kemayoran.
Degree: PhD, 2013, Latrobe University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.9/499104
► Thesis (Ph.D.) - La Trobe University, 2013
Submission note: "A thesis submitted in total fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy…
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Subjects/Keywords: Actor-network theory.; Ontology.; Public lands – Indonesia.
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Yunianto, T. (2013). Space of disjuncture : place-making and multiplicity of Komplek Kemayoran. (Doctoral Dissertation). Latrobe University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1959.9/499104
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Yunianto, Tunggul. “Space of disjuncture : place-making and multiplicity of Komplek Kemayoran.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, Latrobe University. Accessed February 27, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1959.9/499104.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Yunianto, Tunggul. “Space of disjuncture : place-making and multiplicity of Komplek Kemayoran.” 2013. Web. 27 Feb 2021.
Vancouver:
Yunianto T. Space of disjuncture : place-making and multiplicity of Komplek Kemayoran. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Latrobe University; 2013. [cited 2021 Feb 27].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.9/499104.
Council of Science Editors:
Yunianto T. Space of disjuncture : place-making and multiplicity of Komplek Kemayoran. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Latrobe University; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.9/499104
Queens University
15.
Lougheed, Scott C.
An Actor-Network Theory Examination Of Cheese And Whey Production In Ontario
.
Degree: Sociology, 2013, Queens University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1974/8300
► In this thesis, I explore the phenomena of cheese production in Ontario, Canada. I initiated this project after learning that some cheese producers in Ontario…
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▼ In this thesis, I explore the phenomena of cheese production in Ontario, Canada. I initiated this project after learning that some cheese producers in Ontario that were struggling to stay in business, in part because of whey management issues, especially as they relate to the Ontario Nutrient Management Act O. Reg 267/03 (OMAFRA 2002). In this thesis, I utilize the Actor-Network Theory (Latour 2005) approach to examine how certain elements of cheese production in Ontario are organized, with an emphasis on whey management and utilization. Of interest are tensions that threaten to destabilize these relations, such as controversies over how whey should be handled, how identities such as “artisan” or “industrial” cheese producers are constructed and maintained, and how smaller producers sustain themselves in a market in which they compete with large- scale industrial cheese production were examined. Interviews took place with seven participants involved in government, agriculture, and cheese production. Participant/observation data were collected in six field sites (cheese factories, farms). I found that humans and nonhumans perform significant work in holding cheese production and whey management together, even in situations commonly understood as under human mastery or control. In particular, I found that the manner by which relations between entities both human and nonhuman are governed, through law or through informal expectations (e.g., "protocol"; Galloway and Thacker 2007), is responsive to, and emergent from, these relations.
Subjects/Keywords: ANT
;
Food Studies
;
Sociology
;
Actor-Network Theory
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. (Thesis). Queens University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1974/8300
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Lougheed, Scott C. “An Actor-Network Theory Examination Of Cheese And Whey Production In Ontario
.” 2013. Thesis, Queens University. Accessed February 27, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1974/8300.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Lougheed, Scott C. “An Actor-Network Theory Examination Of Cheese And Whey Production In Ontario
.” 2013. Web. 27 Feb 2021.
Vancouver:
Lougheed SC. An Actor-Network Theory Examination Of Cheese And Whey Production In Ontario
. [Internet] [Thesis]. Queens University; 2013. [cited 2021 Feb 27].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1974/8300.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Lougheed SC. An Actor-Network Theory Examination Of Cheese And Whey Production In Ontario
. [Thesis]. Queens University; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1974/8300
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Delft University of Technology
16.
Lei, Jimmy (author).
The State of Speculation: Underlying Mechanisms of Built Environment Procurement.
Degree: 2019, Delft University of Technology
URL: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:5e0fc776-8dfa-4c58-bf42-bd16668834bf
► Today’s land grabs are a continuation of past imperialist desires, with a clear distinction that today’s capitalist domination is associated with the transnationalisation of the…
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▼ Today’s land grabs are a continuation of past imperialist desires, with a clear distinction that today’s capitalist domination is associated with the transnationalisation of the class structure and ignores the ethnicity and civility narratives of the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. This investigation will establish that the desire of the seemingly ubiquitous forces of globalisation and advanced capitalism, mobilised to reduce the importance of culture and identity is to better facilitate its own growth and expansion - which at its core is a process of pacification. With a departure from culture as a medium for the subjugation of people, finance has consequently turned to class for its apparent objectivity in the assessment of people as desirable and efficient for including within the system of capital. Such pervasive coercion has incepted a dependency on the compulsion of a market that rarely provides one with an opportunity to self-reflect. Consequently this project investigates the knowledge gap between politics, economics, and the built environment with accompanying forms of living.
Transitional Territories
Advisors/Committee Members: Milani, Stefano (mentor), Kuzniecow Bacchin, Taneha (graduation committee), Holst, Sjap (graduation committee), Delft University of Technology (degree granting institution).
Subjects/Keywords: Finance; Actor Network Theory; Politics; Accumulation
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Lei, J. (. (2019). The State of Speculation: Underlying Mechanisms of Built Environment Procurement. (Masters Thesis). Delft University of Technology. Retrieved from http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:5e0fc776-8dfa-4c58-bf42-bd16668834bf
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Lei, Jimmy (author). “The State of Speculation: Underlying Mechanisms of Built Environment Procurement.” 2019. Masters Thesis, Delft University of Technology. Accessed February 27, 2021.
http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:5e0fc776-8dfa-4c58-bf42-bd16668834bf.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Lei, Jimmy (author). “The State of Speculation: Underlying Mechanisms of Built Environment Procurement.” 2019. Web. 27 Feb 2021.
Vancouver:
Lei J(. The State of Speculation: Underlying Mechanisms of Built Environment Procurement. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Delft University of Technology; 2019. [cited 2021 Feb 27].
Available from: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:5e0fc776-8dfa-4c58-bf42-bd16668834bf.
Council of Science Editors:
Lei J(. The State of Speculation: Underlying Mechanisms of Built Environment Procurement. [Masters Thesis]. Delft University of Technology; 2019. Available from: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:5e0fc776-8dfa-4c58-bf42-bd16668834bf
University of Missouri – Columbia
17.
Kelly, Elizabeth.
An actor-network analysis of the Arizona Trail.
Degree: 2013, University of Missouri – Columbia
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10355/37963
► Trail spaces have been depicted many ways but no other approach offers the thorough and inclusive qualities of actor-network theory. In this analysis of the…
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▼ Trail spaces have been depicted many ways but no other approach offers the thorough and inclusive qualities of
actor-
network theory. In this analysis of the Arizona Trail,
actor-
network theory evinces the relationships that create, sustain, and reify the Trail. The physical space called the Arizona Trail is more than a state-long footpath due to the variety of actors and relationships involved. It is a living
network that pulses with actors' relationships instead of being driven by a singular hero. The
network changes and grows as actors convince others to enroll via the process of interpellation.
Advisors/Committee Members: Larsen, Soren C. (Soren Christiansen) (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: trail space; actor-network theory; interpellation
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Kelly, E. (2013). An actor-network analysis of the Arizona Trail. (Thesis). University of Missouri – Columbia. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10355/37963
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Kelly, Elizabeth. “An actor-network analysis of the Arizona Trail.” 2013. Thesis, University of Missouri – Columbia. Accessed February 27, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10355/37963.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Kelly, Elizabeth. “An actor-network analysis of the Arizona Trail.” 2013. Web. 27 Feb 2021.
Vancouver:
Kelly E. An actor-network analysis of the Arizona Trail. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Missouri – Columbia; 2013. [cited 2021 Feb 27].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10355/37963.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Kelly E. An actor-network analysis of the Arizona Trail. [Thesis]. University of Missouri – Columbia; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10355/37963
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
University of St. Andrews
18.
Barter, Nicholas J.
Pursuing sustainability : an exploratory study of organisations that have environmental missions
.
Degree: 2011, University of St. Andrews
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10023/1707
► Numerous management scholars argue that management theory is anthropocentric and considers humans as being separate from the environment. Further anthropocentrism does not enable theory and…
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▼ Numerous management scholars argue that management
theory is anthropocentric and considers humans as being separate from the environment. Further anthropocentrism does not enable
theory and organisations to contribute to sustainable development. To counter this it is argued
theory and organisations should embrace an environmental paradigm that does not separate humans and the environment. This exploratory research attempts to identify whether any organisations operate with an environmental paradigm. The research questions focus on paradigms and some of the tensions surrounding the human-environment debate, such as; sufficiency versus profit maximisation and quoted status, money as a means or an end and notions of boundaries between the organisation and the environment. The questions are explored with individuals from 23 environmentally focused, primarily for profit, organisations. The results indicate that the organisations operate with an environmental paradigm, do not perceive of boundaries between the organisation and the environment, do not pursue profit maximisation, can demonstrate sufficiency, view money as a means rather than an end and do not have a favourable view of quoted status. Furthermore, the interviewees do not separate their world into two realms, one social and one natural. Narratives that arise include the organisations operating to a mode of mission and money and that an aphorism of “altruistically selfish and selfishly altruistic” (Maturana & Varela, 1998:197) can be applied. In short, the results indicate some challenges to conventional management
theory, in particular strategy and competitive advantage, and that the organisations interviewed could help to, some extent, enable sustainable development.
To close, the hope of this study it that its narratives and the conceptual tool it has prompted, provide succour to students and managers who want to develop a ‘future normal’ of theories and organisations that better enable sustainability.
Advisors/Committee Members: Bebbington, Kathryn J (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Paradigms;
Sustaincentrism;
Actor-network theory;
Environmental missions
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Barter, N. J. (2011). Pursuing sustainability : an exploratory study of organisations that have environmental missions
. (Thesis). University of St. Andrews. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10023/1707
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Barter, Nicholas J. “Pursuing sustainability : an exploratory study of organisations that have environmental missions
.” 2011. Thesis, University of St. Andrews. Accessed February 27, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/1707.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Barter, Nicholas J. “Pursuing sustainability : an exploratory study of organisations that have environmental missions
.” 2011. Web. 27 Feb 2021.
Vancouver:
Barter NJ. Pursuing sustainability : an exploratory study of organisations that have environmental missions
. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of St. Andrews; 2011. [cited 2021 Feb 27].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10023/1707.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Barter NJ. Pursuing sustainability : an exploratory study of organisations that have environmental missions
. [Thesis]. University of St. Andrews; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10023/1707
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Macquarie University
19.
Haswell, Stephen.
Fair value accounting and financial crises: an actor-network study.
Degree: 2015, Macquarie University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/1068557
► Theoretical thesis.
Bibliography: pages 203-233.
Chapter 1. Introduction – Chapter 2. Fair value in the accounting literature – Chapter 3. Interpretive framework – Chapter 4.…
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▼ Theoretical thesis.
Bibliography: pages 203-233.
Chapter 1. Introduction – Chapter 2. Fair value in the accounting literature – Chapter 3. Interpretive framework – Chapter 4. Research method – Chapter 5. Fair value accounting and the Enron post-mortem – Chapter 6. Global Financial Crisis and after – Chapter 7. Assessment of actor-networks – Chapter 8. Conclusions.
Using actor-network theory, this thesis charts the translation of fair value accounting (FVA) technology. Although FVA has been discredited for over-inflating profits and thereby leading to the 1929 economic collapse, academics of the 1960s resurrected it as a potential complete science of financial reporting. Regulators of the 1990s then reintroduced FVA into both US and International Financial Reporting Standards in an attempt to combat reporting malfeasance by the financial industry. This reintroduction was performed in a piecemeal manner. In the 1990s FVA was manipulated by the financial industry it was supposed to regulate. After the crash of Enron Corporation in 2001, standard setters realized that FVA had to be toughened. The result was a neo-liberal and puritan version of FVA that emphasized 'mark-to-market' accounting; but this swiftly became a supposed cause of the global financial crisis of 2008-9. After a fierce trial of strength with the financial industry, standard setters and regulators were forced into reinstating a weaker and more malleable version of FVA that liberally permitted 'mark-to-model' accounting, a model that persists to the present day.
The thesis explores the forces that have enabled FVA to be translated so that it serves the financial industry and other interests simultaneously. The thesis concludes that the FVA network itself is now a single actor capable of translation.
1 online resource (233 pages)
Advisors/Committee Members: Macquarie University. Department of Accounting and Corporate Governance.
Subjects/Keywords: Fair value – Accounting; Actor-network theory; accounting; Global Financial Crisis; politics; actor-network theory
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Haswell, S. (2015). Fair value accounting and financial crises: an actor-network study. (Doctoral Dissertation). Macquarie University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/1068557
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Haswell, Stephen. “Fair value accounting and financial crises: an actor-network study.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, Macquarie University. Accessed February 27, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/1068557.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Haswell, Stephen. “Fair value accounting and financial crises: an actor-network study.” 2015. Web. 27 Feb 2021.
Vancouver:
Haswell S. Fair value accounting and financial crises: an actor-network study. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Macquarie University; 2015. [cited 2021 Feb 27].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/1068557.
Council of Science Editors:
Haswell S. Fair value accounting and financial crises: an actor-network study. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Macquarie University; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/1068557
University of Stirling
20.
Mitchell, Bethan.
Reconceptualising learning in student-led improvement science projects: an actor-network theory ethnography in medical education.
Degree: PhD, 2017, University of Stirling
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1893/26959
► The National Health Service in Scotland promotes improvement science methodology as an innovation for implementing rapid change in hospital practices. Student-Led Improvement Science Projects (SLISPs)…
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▼ The National Health Service in Scotland promotes improvement science methodology as an innovation for implementing rapid change in hospital practices. Student-Led Improvement Science Projects (SLISPs) have been developed as a result of this, where students work with clinical teams to identify, implement and monitor quality improvements in the workplace. Working with improvement science in working practices in a hospital environment presents opportunities for different ways to reconceptualise learning. This research critically examines professionals’ learning through practices that are enacted during SLISPs. The focus is on medical and pharmacy students in a hospital setting. The research traces the fine-grained activities, materials, spaces, behaviours and relationships that emerged during a SLISP, with the purpose of gaining a better understanding of what learning means in relation to improvement science. There are recent studies of the educative practices of quality improvement projects in the literature (Armstrong et al. 2015; James et al. 2016) and there are healthcare studies which use sociomaterial approaches (Ahn et al. 2015; Falk et al. 2017; Ibrahim et al. 2015), but this research combines education research, healthcare, improvement science and the sociomaterial approach of actor-network theory. The study described in this thesis draws from ethnographic methods combined with actor-network theory (ANT) to investigate the pedagogies of improvement science. Three ANT dimensions were explored: networks, symmetry and multiple worlds. From the fieldwork data, three ‘anecdotes’ were constructed: (1) antimicrobial prescribing; (2) insulin recording; and (3) pedagogies of improvement science. Each anecdote was analysed using each of the ANT dimensions. Networks were explored by attuning to relations and associations using the method of ‘follow the actor’ (Latour 2005). The notion of symmetry provided an alternative perspective of the data by exploring the treatment of humans and non-humans held together in heterogeneous assemblages. Finally, after-ANT concepts were explored through ‘multiple worlds’ by troubling ambivalences and unfolding practices. Five key insights were presented from this analysis: (1) conceptualising networks presents learning as disruption, as existing networks of practice collide with new networks such as improvement science; (2) materials can invite or exclude practices, leading to learning being shaped materially; (3) invisible or black-boxed activities can become visible through the practices of the SLISP; (4) multiple worlds of practice are manifest in the assemblages of materials which coexist through regulating difference; and (5) professionalism can be conceptualised as an assemblage where learning emerges through practices of ordering. The implications for medical education and education in general are that a broader range of pedagogies exist for improvement science by challenging the conditions of possibility. An ANT methodology contributes to this by noticing details…
Subjects/Keywords: sociomaterial; actor-network theory; healthcare; medical education; ANT; ethnography; Actor-network theory; Medical education
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Mitchell, B. (2017). Reconceptualising learning in student-led improvement science projects: an actor-network theory ethnography in medical education. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Stirling. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1893/26959
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Mitchell, Bethan. “Reconceptualising learning in student-led improvement science projects: an actor-network theory ethnography in medical education.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Stirling. Accessed February 27, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1893/26959.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Mitchell, Bethan. “Reconceptualising learning in student-led improvement science projects: an actor-network theory ethnography in medical education.” 2017. Web. 27 Feb 2021.
Vancouver:
Mitchell B. Reconceptualising learning in student-led improvement science projects: an actor-network theory ethnography in medical education. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Stirling; 2017. [cited 2021 Feb 27].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1893/26959.
Council of Science Editors:
Mitchell B. Reconceptualising learning in student-led improvement science projects: an actor-network theory ethnography in medical education. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Stirling; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1893/26959
Stockholm University
21.
Lindström, Elin.
Från soptipp till naturreservat : En studie av makt i Lövsta-Kyrkhamn-Riddersvik genom actor-network theory.
Degree: Physical Geography and Quaternary Geology, 2012, Stockholm University
URL: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-77592
► This paper investigates, through an actor-network theory perspective, how the recreation area Lövsta-Kyrkhamn-Riddersvik northwest of Stockholm has developed from being a dumping site into…
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▼ This paper investigates, through an actor-network theory perspective, how the recreation area Lövsta-Kyrkhamn-Riddersvik northwest of Stockholm has developed from being a dumping site into becoming a nature reserve. This investigation also tries to describe and explain which values that have been promoted in the area by the local voluntary associations and companies. Lövsta-Kyrkhamn-Riddersvik has been inhabited for more than 3000 years, originally with farming as the most important business. The area served as Stockholm’s waste disposal site from the late 1890’s and has today become an important area for recreational use. The actor- network theory perspective is used to identify different actors, both human and non-human, that has worked for the protection of the area and thus gained power over the decision-making.
Subjects/Keywords: actor-network theory; actor; network; value; nature reserve; local associations; Lövsta-Kyrkhamn-Riddersvik
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Lindström, E. (2012). Från soptipp till naturreservat : En studie av makt i Lövsta-Kyrkhamn-Riddersvik genom actor-network theory. (Thesis). Stockholm University. Retrieved from http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-77592
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
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Lindström, Elin. “Från soptipp till naturreservat : En studie av makt i Lövsta-Kyrkhamn-Riddersvik genom actor-network theory.” 2012. Thesis, Stockholm University. Accessed February 27, 2021.
http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-77592.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Lindström, Elin. “Från soptipp till naturreservat : En studie av makt i Lövsta-Kyrkhamn-Riddersvik genom actor-network theory.” 2012. Web. 27 Feb 2021.
Vancouver:
Lindström E. Från soptipp till naturreservat : En studie av makt i Lövsta-Kyrkhamn-Riddersvik genom actor-network theory. [Internet] [Thesis]. Stockholm University; 2012. [cited 2021 Feb 27].
Available from: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-77592.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Lindström E. Från soptipp till naturreservat : En studie av makt i Lövsta-Kyrkhamn-Riddersvik genom actor-network theory. [Thesis]. Stockholm University; 2012. Available from: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-77592
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Clemson University
22.
Gay, Kristen.
Post-Diagnosis: A Networked Framework for Narrative Reassemblage.
Degree: PhD, Rhetorics, Communication, and Information Design, 2017, Clemson University
URL: https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_dissertations/1899
► This dissertation examines the relationship between diagnostic communication practices and deliberative rhetoric through the lens of Actor-Network theory and feminist theory. Specifically, I argue that…
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▼ This dissertation examines the relationship between diagnostic communication practices and deliberative rhetoric through the lens of
Actor-
Network theory and feminist
theory. Specifically, I argue that Bruno Latour's
Actor-
Network Theory (ANT) provides a generative framework for tracing diagnostic networks as it accounts for uncertainty, dispersed agency, community stakeholders, and nonhumans. The chapters explore how a networked approach to diagnosis opens up opportunities to reform doctor-patient relationships, expands our conceptions of diagnostic actants, suggests ways to respond to patients living at risk for disease, and broadens our understanding of ethos in healthcare contexts. Furthermore, I also consider how a networked framework can help us comprehend how public misdiagnoses happen so we can prevent them in the future. I conclude by advocating for healthcare providers to reform diagnostic communication practices to account for the agency and expertise of non-specialist stakeholders, particularly patients. I also explore methods for intervening within global health networks and addressing the intersectional problems they collaboratively solve.
Advisors/Committee Members: Dr. Todd May, Committee Chair, Dr. Cynthia Haynes, Dr. Steven B. Katz, Dr. Sarah Winslow.
Subjects/Keywords: Actor-Network Theory; feminist theory; medical rhetorics; narrative theory
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Gay, K. (2017). Post-Diagnosis: A Networked Framework for Narrative Reassemblage. (Doctoral Dissertation). Clemson University. Retrieved from https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_dissertations/1899
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Gay, Kristen. “Post-Diagnosis: A Networked Framework for Narrative Reassemblage.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, Clemson University. Accessed February 27, 2021.
https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_dissertations/1899.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Gay, Kristen. “Post-Diagnosis: A Networked Framework for Narrative Reassemblage.” 2017. Web. 27 Feb 2021.
Vancouver:
Gay K. Post-Diagnosis: A Networked Framework for Narrative Reassemblage. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Clemson University; 2017. [cited 2021 Feb 27].
Available from: https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_dissertations/1899.
Council of Science Editors:
Gay K. Post-Diagnosis: A Networked Framework for Narrative Reassemblage. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Clemson University; 2017. Available from: https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_dissertations/1899
Universiteit Utrecht
23.
Andrade E Silva, S. de.
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Play: On Actor-Networks and Identity Performance in Facebook Games.
Degree: 2013, Universiteit Utrecht
URL: http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/272440
► This thesis combines the perspectives of actor-network theory and game studies as a theoretical framework for analysing the role of technology in the constructions and…
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▼ This thesis combines the perspectives of
actor-
network theory and game studies as a theoretical framework for analysing the role of technology in the constructions and performances of players’ identities. As digital technologies are increasingly pervading people’s everyday life, material artefacts are playing more and more roles in the way society is shaped and perceived. This ludification and mediatisation of culture has opened up new possibilities for the understanding of identity, particularly in relation to use, appropriation and re-signification of technology. The author suggests that contemporary selves are not only fragmented and dispersed, but also playful and technological, and that the social practices that shape identity construction rely more and more on technological affordances. Social
network games are used to illustrate both how technology makes itself visible in the social world, and how material artefacts affect humans’ sense of self. The author concludes by arguing that, in social
network games, identity comes into being through an articulation of body, imagination, and technology.
Advisors/Committee Members: Schäfer, M.T..
Subjects/Keywords: actor-network theory; identity; games; social network games; ludification of
culture
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Andrade E Silva, S. d. (2013). The Presentation of Self in Everyday Play: On Actor-Networks and Identity Performance in Facebook Games. (Masters Thesis). Universiteit Utrecht. Retrieved from http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/272440
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Andrade E Silva, S de. “The Presentation of Self in Everyday Play: On Actor-Networks and Identity Performance in Facebook Games.” 2013. Masters Thesis, Universiteit Utrecht. Accessed February 27, 2021.
http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/272440.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Andrade E Silva, S de. “The Presentation of Self in Everyday Play: On Actor-Networks and Identity Performance in Facebook Games.” 2013. Web. 27 Feb 2021.
Vancouver:
Andrade E Silva Sd. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Play: On Actor-Networks and Identity Performance in Facebook Games. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Universiteit Utrecht; 2013. [cited 2021 Feb 27].
Available from: http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/272440.
Council of Science Editors:
Andrade E Silva Sd. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Play: On Actor-Networks and Identity Performance in Facebook Games. [Masters Thesis]. Universiteit Utrecht; 2013. Available from: http://dspace.library.uu.nl:8080/handle/1874/272440
24.
Marskamp, M. (author).
Things Overlooked: Exploring housing renewal with actor-network theory.
Degree: 2014, Delft University of Technology
URL: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:682f4e4b-b7e4-4189-87a8-3473aec4f514
► While network perspectives in housing studies have gained currency over the last decade, research looking at the actor-networks of housing management is limited. This is…
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▼ While network perspectives in housing studies have gained currency over the last decade, research looking at the actor-networks of housing management is limited. This is remarkable given the recognition for actor-network theory (Latour, 2005) in the related fields of urban studies (Farías and Bender, 2010) and planning theory (De Roo et al., 2012). Accordingly, the thesis introduces and tests concepts from actor-network theory in the study of housing renewal. It describes the socio-technical controversy in the Sint-Mariastraat in the Oude-Westen Rotterdam (NL) to explore the making of the renewal project by heterogeneous means. In particular, it looks at the actors’ strategies to manage uncertainty by means of translating other—human and non-human—actors to form and stabilize the renewal network. The case study illustrates how the issues of foundations and evictions are interrelated, and how their alliances are continuously negotiated. Building on network governance, actor-network theory adds new (non-human) actors to the housing renewal network. These non-human actors are found to be significant to explain how specific actors accomplish the closure of controversies. They are also relevant to analyze the mechanisms by which housing renewal issues are made technical or political. Accordingly, ANT offers new perspectives on the democratic anchorage of housing renewal networks and introduces new forms of being political. The implications of this are worked out in a participation model based on the suggestion that contesting the issues (parts) is more important than consenting on the plan (whole).
Housing
Real Estate & Housing
Architecture and The Built Environment
Advisors/Committee Members: Boelhouwer, P.J. (mentor), Daamen, T.A. (mentor).
Subjects/Keywords: social housing; renewal; participation; actor-network theory; network governance; translation; controversy
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Marskamp, M. (. (2014). Things Overlooked: Exploring housing renewal with actor-network theory. (Masters Thesis). Delft University of Technology. Retrieved from http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:682f4e4b-b7e4-4189-87a8-3473aec4f514
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Marskamp, M (author). “Things Overlooked: Exploring housing renewal with actor-network theory.” 2014. Masters Thesis, Delft University of Technology. Accessed February 27, 2021.
http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:682f4e4b-b7e4-4189-87a8-3473aec4f514.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Marskamp, M (author). “Things Overlooked: Exploring housing renewal with actor-network theory.” 2014. Web. 27 Feb 2021.
Vancouver:
Marskamp M(. Things Overlooked: Exploring housing renewal with actor-network theory. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Delft University of Technology; 2014. [cited 2021 Feb 27].
Available from: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:682f4e4b-b7e4-4189-87a8-3473aec4f514.
Council of Science Editors:
Marskamp M(. Things Overlooked: Exploring housing renewal with actor-network theory. [Masters Thesis]. Delft University of Technology; 2014. Available from: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:682f4e4b-b7e4-4189-87a8-3473aec4f514
Dalhousie University
25.
Robbins, Thomas J.
Recombinant Economics: Exploring Distributed Agency in
Consumer Finance.
Degree: MA, Department of Sociology & Social
Anthropology, 2013, Dalhousie University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10222/21737
► This work traces the relationship of individual persons to national economic phenomena associated with consumer finance. The work follows the assemblage of individual consumer credit/debt…
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▼ This work traces the relationship of individual
persons to national economic phenomena associated with consumer
finance. The work follows the assemblage of individual consumer
credit/debt agents through credit reporting and credit scoring,
through to the aggregation of these agents in student loan-backed
securitization and credit ratings. The work focuses on the unique
technico-cultural constructions produced when human subjects are
operatively conjoined to other related discursive and material
objects, including related legislation, private corporations, and
governmental bodies. The work explores how these unique
constructions form stable networks connecting individuals to larger
socio-economic settings: networks at once revealing the profoundly
distributed nature of both ‘agents’ and their ‘agency,’ and at the
same time intimating alternative approaches to questions of
individual and collective agency outside the agent/structure
dichotomy. The work concludes by addressing the place of this
research in consumer finance generally, and the role of consumer
finance in contemporary US economics broadly.
Advisors/Committee Members: n/a (external-examiner), Emma Whelan (graduate-coordinator), Kregg Hethington, Jean-Sebastien Guy (thesis-reader), Brian Noble (thesis-supervisor), Received (ethics-approval), No (manuscripts), No (copyright-release).
Subjects/Keywords: Social Studies of Finance; Credit; Debt; Actor-Network
Theory; Assemblage Theory
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Robbins, T. J. (2013). Recombinant Economics: Exploring Distributed Agency in
Consumer Finance. (Masters Thesis). Dalhousie University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10222/21737
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Robbins, Thomas J. “Recombinant Economics: Exploring Distributed Agency in
Consumer Finance.” 2013. Masters Thesis, Dalhousie University. Accessed February 27, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10222/21737.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Robbins, Thomas J. “Recombinant Economics: Exploring Distributed Agency in
Consumer Finance.” 2013. Web. 27 Feb 2021.
Vancouver:
Robbins TJ. Recombinant Economics: Exploring Distributed Agency in
Consumer Finance. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Dalhousie University; 2013. [cited 2021 Feb 27].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10222/21737.
Council of Science Editors:
Robbins TJ. Recombinant Economics: Exploring Distributed Agency in
Consumer Finance. [Masters Thesis]. Dalhousie University; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10222/21737
Victoria University of Wellington
26.
Vos, Marta Elizabeth.
RFID on the boundary between the public and private sectors: An ANT/Institutional Theory investigation.
Degree: 2014, Victoria University of Wellington
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/3431
► Radio frequency identification (RFID) enabled devices are becoming increasingly common in today’s world, facilitating many things from supply chain efficiencies to medical equipment tracking. The…
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▼ Radio frequency identification (RFID) enabled devices are becoming increasingly common in today’s world, facilitating many things from supply chain efficiencies to medical equipment tracking. The majority of studies into such systems centre on technical and engineering issues associated with their implementation and operation. Research outside of this scope generally focuses on RFID systems in isolated private sector supply chains. Less common is research on RFID systems within the public sector, and this research generally occurs within the health, defence, or agriculture areas.
Using a combination of
Actor-
Network Theory (ANT) and Institutional
Theory, this qualitative study examines how RFID is used within the public sector/private sector RFID
network. Interactions across public and private sector RFID networks are examined in order to identify common themes within the
network, and to determine where the needs of the two sectors diverge. Twelve themes were identified that acted as ANT mediators within the
network, across three dimensions. These mediators differed in activity depending on where within the ANT translation they were strongest. A number of the mediators were also found to exert institutional pressures on organisations within the
network, contributing to their strength during translation.
The relationship between the two sectors was also examined. Findings indicated that some mediators were stronger within the public sector, particularly with respect to privacy and legislation. It was further found that the relationship between the two sectors was confused by the multiple different roles taken by the public sector within the translation. This multiplicity at times confused both public and private sector partners, leading to uncertainty within the
network.
This study contributes to research by addressing a gap in understanding of RFID systems in the public-private sector context. It also provides practitioners with a guideline as to which mediators should be addressed when contemplating an RFID system within this context, as well as indicating possible reasons the relationship between organisations in the two sectors may be challenging. In addition, the unusual combination of ANT and Institutional
Theory contributes to
theory by pointing towards a possible new way to investigate complex technology systems at the organisational level.
Advisors/Committee Members: Cullen, Rowena, Cranefield, Jocelyn.
Subjects/Keywords: RFID; Radio frequency identification; Actor-Network Theory; Institutional Theory
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Vos, M. E. (2014). RFID on the boundary between the public and private sectors: An ANT/Institutional Theory investigation. (Doctoral Dissertation). Victoria University of Wellington. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10063/3431
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Vos, Marta Elizabeth. “RFID on the boundary between the public and private sectors: An ANT/Institutional Theory investigation.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, Victoria University of Wellington. Accessed February 27, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10063/3431.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Vos, Marta Elizabeth. “RFID on the boundary between the public and private sectors: An ANT/Institutional Theory investigation.” 2014. Web. 27 Feb 2021.
Vancouver:
Vos ME. RFID on the boundary between the public and private sectors: An ANT/Institutional Theory investigation. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2014. [cited 2021 Feb 27].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/3431.
Council of Science Editors:
Vos ME. RFID on the boundary between the public and private sectors: An ANT/Institutional Theory investigation. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Victoria University of Wellington; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10063/3431
University of New Mexico
27.
Cole, Kristen L.
"EVERY 'ONE' AND EVERY 'THING' CAN BE LOVED": A RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF NETWORKED SELF-REPRESENTATION BY THE OBJECTùM SEXUALITY COMMUNITY.
Degree: Department of Communication and Journalism, 2013, University of New Mexico
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1928/23317
► Using rhetorical criticism informed by actor-network theory (ANT), in this dissertation I explore the emergence of queer identity and queer community building within the Objectùm…
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▼ Using rhetorical criticism informed by
actor-
network theory (ANT), in this dissertation I explore the emergence of queer identity and queer community building within the Objectùm Sexuality Internationale Web site (OSI) – the largest source of information related to a community of over 300 hundred individuals who experience emotional and romantic desire towards objects. My goals in this study are (1) to identify and understand how rhetorical strategies are emergent and networked (rather than individually enacted) within the OSI Web site; and (2) how these emergent rhetorical strategies promote multiplicity of sexual desire and identity through the challenging of heteronormative and anthropocentric binaries and normativities via queer posthuman forms of love and connection.
Using an ANT informed rhetorical criticism, I identified four layers of communication that facilitate the emergence of
actor networks within the OSI Web site: (1) translation – the process by which human actors depict experience in texts); (2) enactment – the process by which actors (human and object) interact in ways that create networks of action and agency); (3) representation – the process in which certain macroactors (actors that appear as recurring and stable categories) present the interests of other actors within the
network); and (4) teleaction – the movement of representations from place to place and over time through memory and text. Within these layers, I identified four categories of translation, thirteen macroactors, and four types of teleaction. The translations that emerge on the OSI Web site include how objectùm sexuality became a term and community, what it means to be objectùm sexual, how people who identify as objectùm sexual have come to make sense of their experiences, and public pleas for acceptance regarding objectùm sexuality. The macroactors that emerge include people, communication devices, purposes of OSI, orientation, animism, sensuality/intimacy, nonverbal communication, love, gender, attraction, marriage, medicalization, and the Red Fence. The processes of teleaction that emerge include verbal, nonverbal, hybrid, and symbolic actors.
These four layers then led to the emergence of four higher-level rhetorical dimensions. These include: (1) terminological dimension – the interrelationship between terms and the OS community; (2) ontological dimension – the emergence of a higher-level philosophy about the existence of beings and the meanings and modes of being, existing, living, and loving for OS; (3) axiological dimension – the emergence of criteria for ethical values and judgments in relation to OS; and (4) epistemological dimension – where the dimensions of ontology and terminology meet and the nature and scope of knowledge about OS is represented. Together, these four transcendent levels facilitate the rhetorical construction of the OS community and critiques of heteronormative/anthropocentric frames of love, desire, and sexuality.
Overall, these various strategies lead to two larger rhetorical moves: (1) OSI communicates…
Advisors/Committee Members: Foss, Karen A., Littlejohn, Stephen W., Chavez, Karma R., Eguchi, Shinsuke.
Subjects/Keywords: objectum sexuality; queer theory; posthuman; actor-network theory; rhetorical criticism
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Cole, K. L. (2013). "EVERY 'ONE' AND EVERY 'THING' CAN BE LOVED": A RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF NETWORKED SELF-REPRESENTATION BY THE OBJECTùM SEXUALITY COMMUNITY. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of New Mexico. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1928/23317
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Cole, Kristen L. “"EVERY 'ONE' AND EVERY 'THING' CAN BE LOVED": A RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF NETWORKED SELF-REPRESENTATION BY THE OBJECTùM SEXUALITY COMMUNITY.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, University of New Mexico. Accessed February 27, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1928/23317.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Cole, Kristen L. “"EVERY 'ONE' AND EVERY 'THING' CAN BE LOVED": A RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF NETWORKED SELF-REPRESENTATION BY THE OBJECTùM SEXUALITY COMMUNITY.” 2013. Web. 27 Feb 2021.
Vancouver:
Cole KL. "EVERY 'ONE' AND EVERY 'THING' CAN BE LOVED": A RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF NETWORKED SELF-REPRESENTATION BY THE OBJECTùM SEXUALITY COMMUNITY. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of New Mexico; 2013. [cited 2021 Feb 27].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1928/23317.
Council of Science Editors:
Cole KL. "EVERY 'ONE' AND EVERY 'THING' CAN BE LOVED": A RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF NETWORKED SELF-REPRESENTATION BY THE OBJECTùM SEXUALITY COMMUNITY. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of New Mexico; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1928/23317
University of Arizona
28.
Walker, Kenneth C.
Rhetorics of Uncertainty: Networked Deliberations in Climate Risk
.
Degree: 2015, University of Arizona
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/556604
► This dissertation applies a mixed-methods model across three cases of climate risk in order to examine the rhetorical dynamics of uncertainties. I argue that a…
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▼ This dissertation applies a mixed-methods model across three cases of climate risk in order to examine the rhetorical dynamics of uncertainties. I argue that a rhetorical approach to uncertainties can effectively scaffold civic agency in risk communication by translating conflicting interests and creating sites of public participation. By tracing the networks of scientists and their artifacts through cases of climate risk, I demonstrate how the performances of scientific ethos and their material-discursive technologies facilitate the personalization of risk as a form of scientific prudence, and thus a channel to feasible political action. I support these claims through a rhetorical model of translation, which hybridizes methods from discourse analysis and
Actor-
Network Theory (ANT) in order assemble a data-driven and corpus-based approach to rhetorical analysis. From this rhetorical perspective uncertainties expand on our notions of risk because they reveal associations between scientific inquiries, probability assessments, and the facilitation of political dialogues. In each case, the particular insight of the model reveals a range of rhetorical potentials in climate risk that can be confronted through uncertainties.
Advisors/Committee Members: Kimme Hea, Amy C (advisor), Kimme Hea, Amy C. (committeemember), Walsh, Lynda C. (committeemember), McAllister, Ken S. (committeemember), Cokinos, Christopher A. (committeemember).
Subjects/Keywords: Climate Change;
Rhetorical Theory;
Risk;
Uncertainty;
English;
Actor-Network Theory
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Walker, K. C. (2015). Rhetorics of Uncertainty: Networked Deliberations in Climate Risk
. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Arizona. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10150/556604
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Walker, Kenneth C. “Rhetorics of Uncertainty: Networked Deliberations in Climate Risk
.” 2015. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Arizona. Accessed February 27, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10150/556604.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Walker, Kenneth C. “Rhetorics of Uncertainty: Networked Deliberations in Climate Risk
.” 2015. Web. 27 Feb 2021.
Vancouver:
Walker KC. Rhetorics of Uncertainty: Networked Deliberations in Climate Risk
. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Arizona; 2015. [cited 2021 Feb 27].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/556604.
Council of Science Editors:
Walker KC. Rhetorics of Uncertainty: Networked Deliberations in Climate Risk
. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Arizona; 2015. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/556604
Colorado State University
29.
Koban, John Edward.
Opening the Black box of the 2015 Baltimore riots: an actor-network theory contribution to composition.
Degree: MA, English, 2016, Colorado State University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/176614
► The purpose of this project is to experiment with new ways of supplementing the "social turn" in composition by using Actor-Network Theory (ANT) as a…
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▼ The purpose of this project is to experiment with new ways of supplementing the "social turn" in composition by using
Actor-
Network Theory (ANT) as a methodology. In demonstrating the ways ANT could support composition, I conduct a study of the 2015 Baltimore riots in the wake of the fatal injury of Freddie Gray by Baltimore police. In understanding the events the focus is not on the riots themselves but the place where the riots occurred, Baltimore’s Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood, also the home of Freddie Gray and his family. The social focus of this study is to demonstrate how ANT could support an anti-racist composition
theory and practice. Herein I argue that ANT has much to offer anti-racist composition
theory, arguing that when the methodology is deployed that researchers can arrive at robust findings that supports writing that produces action. In making this argument I identify four general areas that ANT contributes to composition
theory: the first area is that the
theory behind the method is non-critical in nature. This simply means that instead of relying on critique as means to achieve social justice and critical thinking that we also spend more time describing and assembling and composing – drawing a picture of the social – before beginning the work of critical analysis. The second area ANT adds to composition
theory is that in drawing the non-critical pictures of the social that we pay close attention to all agents in the site, and this means that we pay attention to the agency of the nonhumans in addition to the humans. We do this because humans do not exist and act without the agency of nonhumans. The idea here is that any kind of rhetorical work we do will be more robust when we pay more attention to all parts of context and rhetorical situations. The third area ANT contributes is that can cultivate an attunement between and among researchers and the ambient environment or site of study. In other words, in doing the slow work that ANT requires, the researcher has greater opportunity to cultivate an affective engagement with the other agents in the site of study, and when this happens then there is greater opportunity for researchers and students to engage with exigent sites of concern, in both material and affective ways. The fourth way ANT supports composition
theory is in that it promotes an ethic of amateurism that allows researchers to tinker with texts and sites and studies in playful and amateurish ways. ANT is a relativistic and objective approach that seeks as its goal consensus through description and slow analysis and work with others and as such this method is a friendlier and less dogmatic form of empiricism. Because of the relativism, the researcher needs to be comfortable with uncertainty, but this uncertainty is beneficial because it allows the researcher to constantly inquire until a consensus and plan of action is reached. After conducting my study of Sandtown-Winchester, I found that the problem of something akin to racism is distributed across the material and discursive space of…
Advisors/Committee Members: Langstraat, Lisa (advisor), Amidon, Timothy (committee member), Champ, Joseph (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Baltimore; Latour; rhetoric; actor-network theory (ANT); Bruno; composition; theory
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Koban, J. E. (2016). Opening the Black box of the 2015 Baltimore riots: an actor-network theory contribution to composition. (Masters Thesis). Colorado State University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10217/176614
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Koban, John Edward. “Opening the Black box of the 2015 Baltimore riots: an actor-network theory contribution to composition.” 2016. Masters Thesis, Colorado State University. Accessed February 27, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10217/176614.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Koban, John Edward. “Opening the Black box of the 2015 Baltimore riots: an actor-network theory contribution to composition.” 2016. Web. 27 Feb 2021.
Vancouver:
Koban JE. Opening the Black box of the 2015 Baltimore riots: an actor-network theory contribution to composition. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Colorado State University; 2016. [cited 2021 Feb 27].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/176614.
Council of Science Editors:
Koban JE. Opening the Black box of the 2015 Baltimore riots: an actor-network theory contribution to composition. [Masters Thesis]. Colorado State University; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/176614
York University
30.
Davila, Patricio.
Visualization as Assemblage: How Modesty, Ethics, and Attachment Inform a Critical Design Practice.
Degree: PhD, Communication & Culture, Joint Program with Ryerson University, 2016, York University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10315/32703
► Visualization is a form of design practice that deploys representational processes of enormous rhetorical and analytical power. What is often left out of the picture…
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▼ Visualization is a form of design practice that deploys representational processes of enormous rhetorical and analytical power. What is often left out of the picture is the
network of processes which it assembles and the non-visual effects it produces. This study asks how visualization can operate as a critical design practice that attends to the representational and performative processes it arranges. In order to contextualize this form of arrangement in design, the study undertakes a review of Bruno Latours interpretation of design as a form of modest restyling and arrangement. It also addresses this question through the use of a productive alignment between Latours development of
actor-
network theory and Deleuze and Guattaris assemblage
theory which allows to both describe how things and processes mobilize knowledge and how human subjectivity emerges from human-nonhuman entanglements, respectively. The assemblage framework is applied to three case studies that offer distinct instances of critical visualization practices with each emphasizing a specific aspect. Liquid Traces (2014present), from Forensic Architecture (a research project based at Goldsmiths, University of London), is a project that condemns NATO forces for criminal negligence that led to the deaths of 63 refugees fleeing Libya by boat in 2011, and also reveals the ways a surface may assemble components and highlight its own form of construction. Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (2013present), from the San Francisco Tenants Union, advocates for housing justice by mobilizing maps, events, and site-specific installations, and illustrates how visualization is a process that exists beyond any one artifact. In The Air, Tonight (2013present), from the Public Visualization Studio, is my own research-creation project highlights the connection between housing and climate through an annual visualization event, and shows how design can operate through iteration, reworking, and connection to allied processes. What emerges from this study is an ethics of visualization that refocuses criticality on the potential of design to act modestly (Latour), to reveal its own construction, and to maintain the quality of attachments made.
Advisors/Committee Members: Marchessault, Janine Michele (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Multimedia; Visualization; Design; Actor-network theory; Assemblage theory; Critical practice
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Davila, P. (2016). Visualization as Assemblage: How Modesty, Ethics, and Attachment Inform a Critical Design Practice. (Doctoral Dissertation). York University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10315/32703
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Davila, Patricio. “Visualization as Assemblage: How Modesty, Ethics, and Attachment Inform a Critical Design Practice.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, York University. Accessed February 27, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10315/32703.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Davila, Patricio. “Visualization as Assemblage: How Modesty, Ethics, and Attachment Inform a Critical Design Practice.” 2016. Web. 27 Feb 2021.
Vancouver:
Davila P. Visualization as Assemblage: How Modesty, Ethics, and Attachment Inform a Critical Design Practice. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. York University; 2016. [cited 2021 Feb 27].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10315/32703.
Council of Science Editors:
Davila P. Visualization as Assemblage: How Modesty, Ethics, and Attachment Inform a Critical Design Practice. [Doctoral Dissertation]. York University; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10315/32703
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