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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"actant"”.

  1. The Ark of the Covenant as a Material Actant: Adapting New Materialist Concepts for Cause and Effect

    … that feature the Ark of the Covenant, the terms “actant” and “efficacy” are used to include nonhuman and material entities and activity, and the term “actantial context” is used to refer to a particular grouping of divine, human, nonhuman, and material actants whose entanglements with one another …

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  2. Klonopin Collectifs, the “Charms” of Diverted Pharmaceuticals and Other Pleasures of Non-Medical Prescription Drug Use

    … instead a result of networks of heterogeneous actants. Using interview data collected among young adults about their early non-prescribed pharmaceutical episodes, and comparing these experiences to those of accomplished users, I will illustrate how, during initial periods of transparent …

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  3. Klonopin Collectifs, the “Charms” of Diverted Pharmaceuticals and Other Pleasures of Non-Medical Prescription Drug Use

    … instead a result of networks of heterogeneous actants. Using interview data collected among young adults about their early non-prescribed pharmaceutical episodes, and comparing these experiences to those of accomplished users, I will illustrate how, during initial periods of transparent …

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  4. Objects in Protest: Bread and Puppet Theater's (Non)Human Solidarities

    … in 2004, considering myself as co-constitutive actant within the scope of analysis. I examine the way the theater uses sourdough bread and puppets as performing objects to create meaning, express ideology, apply tension within constructs of power, and demonstrate a model for co-dependent living …

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  5. Accounting in action in the New Zealand health reform process: an analysis informed by a specific case study of a major health provider

    … would be better understood as "Accounting as Actant" but it seems to me that Latour was clearly aware of this same point when he chose this title for his book.

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  6. “Whose Streets? Our Streets!”: Social Memory and Contentious Politics in a Democracy

    … institutional memory sites (memory site interactant), but more often floats freely in the larger urban memoryscape thereby transforming liminal spaces into memory places (floating mnemonic actant). Already acknowledged for its placemaking capacity, street art’s mnemonic capacity to push, pull, …

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