· 2012
Urban Assemblages: How Actor-Network Theory Changes Urban Studies
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Short summary
This collection introduces Actor-Network Theory (ANT) as a framework to analyze urban phenomena, moving beyond traditional human-centric approaches by considering the agency of non-human elements.
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Key points
- Actor-Network Theory (ANT) offers a new lens for urban studies, emphasizing the co-production of cities by human and non-human actors.
- Case studies demonstrate ANT's application to diverse urban phenomena, including music scenes, transport infrastructure, and urban tourism.
- The volume advocates for a 'flat ontology' that avoids privileging human agency in urban development.
- ANT helps analyze how value is assembled and perceived within urban contexts through various networks and technologies.
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Abstract
Introduction (Ignacio Farias) Section I: Towards a Flat Ontology? 1. Gelleable Spaces, Eventful Geographies: the Case of Santiago's Experimental Music Scene (Manuel Tironi) 2. Globalizations Big and Small: Notes on Urban Studies, Actor-network Theory, and Geographical Scale (Alan Latham and Derek McCormack) 3. Urban Studies without 'scale': Localizing the Global Through Singapore (Richard G. Smith) 4. Assembling Asturias: Scaling Devices and Cultural Leverage (Don Slater and Tomas Ariztia) Interview with Nigel Thrift (Ignacio Farias) Section 2: A Non-Human Urban Ecology 5. How do we Co-Produce Urban Transport Systems and the City? The Case of Transmilenio and Bogota (Andres Valderrama Pineda) 6. Changing Obdurate Urban Objects: The Attempts to Reconstruct the Highway through Maastricht (Anique Hommels) 7. Mutable Immobiles. Building Conversion as a Problem of Quasi-Technologies (Michael Guggenheim) 8. Conviction and Commotion: On Soundspheres, Technopolitics and Urban Space (Israel Rodriguez Giralt, Daniel Lopez Gomez and Noel Garcia Lopez) Interview with Stephen Graham (Ignacio Farias) Section 3: The Multiple City 9. The Reality of Urban Tourism: Framed Activity and Virtual Ontology (Ignacio Farias) 10. Assembling Money and the Senses. Revisiting Georg Simmel and the City (Michael Schillmeier) 11. The City as Value Locus: Markets, Technologies, and the Problem of Worth (Caitlin Zaloom) 12. Second Empire, Second Nature, Secondary World: Verne and Baudelaire in the Capital of the Nineteenth Century (Rosalind Williams) Interview with Robert Shields (Ignacio Farias) Postscript: Re-Assembling the City. Networks and Urban Imaginaries (Thomas Bender)
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