Actor-Network Theory (ANT)
An approach to understanding stability and change in the world that situates human *agency in wider networks of non-human actors and materials. From the late 19th century many came to believe that the world of humans was different in kind from the world of non-human entities and processes. This presumed ontological cleavage was reflected in the different subject matter and methods of the social sciences and humanities as compared to the physical, medical, engineering, mathematical, computational, and environmental sciences. In academic geography after 1945 this ‘two-worlds’ perspective was reflected in the growing schism between human and physical geography. However, in the early 1990s the ... ...
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