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Organizing rocks: Actor–network theory and space

Year: 2019

Type: article

Abstract: In an ethnography of the organizing of an underground mine, this article critically engages with actor–network theory’s theorizing of space, particularly the risk of drifting into spatial pluralism. Inspired by Annemarie Mol’s The Body Multiple, a space multiple approach is enrolled in which seemingly disparate enactments of the mining operations are understood in terms of coexistence and difference, inclusion and exclusion. Such an account attempts to cast aside a kind of neatness that jeopardizes the empirical openness that makes actor–network theory so fruitful to work with in organization studies dealing with spatial complexity.

Source: Organization

DOI: 10.1177/1350508419842715

Authors: Tommy Jensen, Johan Sandström

Institutions: Stockholm University, Luleå University of Technology

Language: English

Topic: Information Systems Theories and Implementation

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: Vetenskapsrådet, Forskningsrådet om Hälsa, Arbetsliv och Välfärd

Award: G4036449168