List of figures ix // List of contributors x // Acknowledgements xix // Actor-network theory as a companion: an inquiry into intellectual practices xx // Ignacio Farias, Anders Blok and Celia Roberts // SECTION 1 // Some elements of the ANT paradigm(s) 1 // Ignacio Farias, Anders Blok and Celia Roberts // 1 What if ANT wouldn’t pursue agnosticism but care? 4 // Daniel López-Gómez // 2 How to make ANT concepts more real? 14 // Adrian Mackenzie • // 3 Is ANT’s radical empiricism ethnographic? 24 // Brit Ross Winthereik // 4 Can ANT compare with anthropology? 34 // Atsuro Morita // 5 How to write after performativity? 46 // José Ossandón // 6 Is ANT a critique of capital? 56 // Fabian Muniesa // 7 How to use ANT in inventive ways so that its critique will not run // out of steam? 64 // Michael Guggenheim // Contents // SECTION 2 // Engaging dialogues with key intellectual companions 73 // Anders Blok, Ignacio Farias and Celia Roberts // 8 Is actant-rhizome ontology a more appropriate term for ANT? 76 // Casper Bruun Jensen // 9 What can ANT still learn from semiotics? 87 // Alvise Mattozzi // 10 What did we forget about ANT’s roots in anthropology of writing? 101 // Jérôme D. Pontille // 11 As ANT is getting undone, can Pragmatism help us re-do it? « 112 // Noortje Manes // 12 Why does ANT need Haraway for thinking about (gendered) bodies? 121 Ericka Johnson // 13 How does thinking with dementing bodies and A. N. Whitehead // reassemble central propositions of ANT? 133 // Michael Schillmeier //
14 What is the relevance of Isabelle Stengers’ philosophy to ANT? 143 // Martin Savransky // SECTION 3 // Trading zones of ANT: problematisations and ambivalences 155 // Ignacio Farias, Anders Blok and Celia Roberts // 15 What can go wrong when people become interested // in the non-human? 15g // Nigel Clark // 16 What possibilities would a queer ANT generate? 168 // Kane Race // 17 Is ANT capable of tracing spaces of affect? 181 // Derek P. McCormack // 18 How to care for our accounts? 190 // Sonja Jerak-Zuiderent // vl // Contents // 19 Is ANT an artistic practice? 200 // Francis Halsall // 20 How to stage a convergence between ANT and Southern sociologies? 210 Marcelo C. Rosa // 21 What might ANT learn from Chinese medicine about difference? 220 // Wen-Yuan Lin // SECTION 4 // Translating ANT beyond science and technology 233 // Celia Roberts, Anders Blok and Ignacio Farias // 22 What about race? 235 // Amade M’charek and Irene van Oorschot // 23 What might we learn from ANT for studying healthcare issues in the // majority world, and what might ANT learn in turn? 246 // Uli Beisei // 24 What is the value of ANT research into economic valuation devices? 256 Liliana Doganova // 25 How does ANT help us to rethink the city and its promises? 264 // Alexa Färber // 26 How to study the construction of subjectivity with ANT? 273 // Arthur Arruda Leal Ferreira // 27 Why do maintenance and repair matter? 283 // DavidJ. Denis //
SECTION 5 The sites and scales of ANT 295 // Anders Blok, Ignacio Farias and Celia Roberts // 28 Are parliaments still privileged sites for studying politics and liberal // democracy? 298 // Endre Dányi // 29 How does an ANT approach help us rethink the notion of site? 306 // Albena Yaneva and Brett Mommersteeg // vii // Contents // 30 How does the South Korean city of Kyöngju help ANT think place and scale? // Robert Oppenheim // 31 How can ANT trace slow-moving environmental harms as they become eventful political disruptions? // Kregg Hetherington // 32 Is ANT equally good in dealing with local, national and global natures? Kristin Asdal // 33 What happens to ANT, and its emphasis on the socio-material grounding of the social, in digital sociology? // Carolin Gerlitz and Esther Weltevrede // SECTION 6 // The uses of ANT for public-professional engagement // Celia Roberts, Anders Blok and Ignacio Farias // 34 Can ANT be a form of activism? // Tomas Sanchez Criado and Israel Rodriguez-Girat // 35 How has ANT been helpful for public anthropologists after the 3.11 disaster in Japan? // Shuhei Kimura and Kohei Inose // 36 How to move beyond the dialogism of the ‘Parliament of Things’ and the ‘Hybrid Forum’ when rethinking participatory experiments with ANT? // Emma Cardwell and Claire Waterton // 37 How well does ANT equip designers for socio-material speculations? 389 Alex Wilkie // 38 How to run a hospital with ANT? Yuri Carvajal Banados // 400 // Index 411