Agency without Actors?
New Approaches to Collective Action
The question of agency is a key issue in social theory and research. The discourse of human agency as an effect of social relations is deeply intertwined with the history of sociological thought. However, in most recent discussions the role of non-humans gains a substantial impact concerning agency. Agency without Actors? New Approaches to Collective Action asks: Are nonhumans active, do they have agency? And if so: how and in which different ways?Consequently, Agency without Actors? New Approaches to Collective Action outlines a wide range of novel accounts that link human and non-human agencytries to understand social-technical, political a…
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Weitere Autoren: Peuker, Birgit (Hrsg.) / Schillmeier, Michael (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-136-85126-1
- EAN: 9781136851261
- Produktnummer: 13887383
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 3'379 KB
- Abbildungen: 2 schwarz-weiße Tabellen
Über den Autor
Jan-Hendrik Passoth teaches Media Sociology, Science and Technology Studies and Social Theory at Bielefeld University. He is working on problems of social structure and infrastructures, human and non-human agency and discourse and material culture. Birgit Peuker teaches Macrosociology at the Technical University Dresden. Her research interests lie in the Sociology of Science and Technology and the Sociology of Risk.Michael Schillmeier teaches Sociology, Science and Technology Studies and Empirical Philosophy at the Department of Sociology at Ludwig-Maximilians University in Germany. He currently holds a Schumpeter Fellowship to research 'Innovations in Nano-Medicine'.
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