Some Elements of a Sociology of Translation: Domestication of the Scallops and the Fishermen of St Brieuc Bay

By Michel Callon. 1984

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How is Technology Made?-That is the Question! (2010, background): “…construction of technology’ encompasses all the work represented in the 1987 volume, including the actor-network approach by Callon, Latour, Law (e.g. Callon, 1986, 1987, 1995; Latour and Basite, 1986; Law, 1986) and the technological systems approach by at M aastricht U niversity on S eptem ber…”
Actor-network theory and material semiotics (2009, background): “One winter night the fi shermen invade the protected areas, trawl the larval grounds, and destroy the collectors (Callon 1986).”
Embodying Neoliberalism: Economy, Culture, and the Politics of Fat (2006, background): “Conversely, more recently, political ecology has been influenced by actor-network science studies, which argues for explanations that are inclusive of the ways nature collaborates, resists, or undermines its incorporation into human projects (Callon, 1986; Goodman and FitzSimmons, 1998).”
Assembling an Economic Actor: The Agencement of a Hedge Fund (2007, background): “Callon’s approach is rooted in the ‘actor-network theory’ that he developed with Bruno Latour (Callon and Latour, 1981; Callon, 1986; Latour, 1987).”
Exploring agency beyond humans: the compatibility of Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and resilience thinking (2014, background): “…in building resilience (Folke et al. 2003, Berkes and Ross 2013) Nonhuman/relational agency (Bennett 2007), fluidity (de Laet and Mol 2000), durability (Law 1986) Possible strategies to employ Identifying threshold of the system and shocks that might cause the system to lose its resilience (Walker…”
Introduction: the technological economy (2002, methodology): “Drawing on the work of Greimas (1987) they de ned an actor (actant) as ‘whatever unit of discourse is invested of a role’ (Callon and Latour 1981: 301–2).6 In this way an actor could be either a human or a non-human entity and it could have both material and ‘social’ components (Callon 1986).”
The collaborative economy and tourism: Critical perspectives, questionable claims and silenced voices (2015, unknown): “In addressing the above aims, we follow the recommendations proposed by critical post-structural researchers who take the view that reality is constructed, communicated and routinized in a social world (Callon, 1986; Law, 2004).”
‘Measurementality’ in Biodiversity Governance: Knowledge, Transparency, and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (Ipbes) (2014, background): “It fashions itself as the go-to place, the obligatory point of passage (Callon, 1986), for knowledge about biodiversity and ecosystem services.”
The Sociomaterialty of Information Systems: Current Status, Future Directions (2014, background): “MIS Quarterly Vol. 38 No. 3/September 2014 813 technical systems perspective (e.g., Mumford 2006; Trist and Bamforth 1951), ANT (e.g., Callon 1986a, 1986b; Latour 2005; Law 2004), and practice theory (e.g., Bourdieu 1977; Rezkwitz 2002; Schatzki 1996) stand out as predecessors and contributors to…”
Building Trust in Economic Space (2006, background): “A key idea is that economies, markets, laboratories, communities, etc are, in actuality, constituted by particular combinations of human agents, non-human intermediaries, and power expressions that enable actors to set agendas, define roles and identities, build alliances, and mobilize resources (Ca”
Energy comes home (2007, methodology): “From an STS point of view, it is insufficient to understand private consumption as a matter of economical consideration and adequate information only (cf. Bourdieu 1987, During 1993).”