The Zimbabwe Bush Pump

By M. de Laet, Annemarie Mol. 2000

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Achieving Transparency: The Visible, Invisible and Divisible in Academic Accountability Networks (2007, background): “For example, Drew (2004) splits transparency into seven objectives and investigates whether or not public records match these criteria.”
Exploring agency beyond humans: the compatibility of Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and resilience thinking (2014, background): “In their investigation of the Zimbabwe Bush Pump, de Laet and Mol (2000) demonstrate the influence of networks of human and nonhuman entities on technological adaptation and social transformation.”
The human infrastructure of ICTD (2010, background): “Therefore, as a fluid object [6], it comes into contact with several users and uses.”
Knowledge Collaboration in Online Communities (2011, methodology): “As simply depicted in Figure 1, we envision OCs as fluid organizational objects that are simultaneously morphing and yet retaining a recognizable shape (de Laet and Mol 2000, Law 2002, Mol and Law 1994).”
The emergence of (2016, background): “ANT is a methodological perspective that embraces complex and political forces in the emergence of standards, and also the unplanned and uncontrolled nature of innovation (Law 1986, Latour 1996, de Laet & Mol 2000), so it is an appropriate approach to address these issues.”