Assemblages and Actor‐networks: Rethinking Socio‐material Power, Politics and Space
University of Zurich · University of Birmingham
Abstract
Abstract Assemblage thinking and actor‐network theory (ANT) have been at the forefront of a paradigm shift that sees space and agency as the result of associating humans and non‐humans to form precarious wholes. This shift offers ways of rethinking the relations between power, politics and space from a more processual, socio‐material perspective. After sketching and comparing the concepts of the assemblage and the actor‐network, this paper reviews the current scholarship in human geography which clusters around the four themes of deterritorialisation/reterritorialisation; power; materials, objects and technologies; and topological space. Looking towards the future, it suggests that assemblage thinking and ANT…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 179.94
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 123
Authors
1Topics & keywords
- Assemblage (archaeology)
- Actor–network theory
- Agency (philosophy)
- Scholarship
- Space (punctuation)
- Power (physics)
- Sociology
- Politics
- Reduced inequalities