Title of article :
Opening the black box of the organization: Socio-material practices of geopolitical ordering
Author/Authors :
Martin Müller، نويسنده ,
Issue Information :
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2012
Pages :
10
From page :
379
To page :
388
Abstract :
Despite their implication in almost all aspects of the field, organizations remain a black box within critical geopolitics. The majority of the literature looks at organizations from the outside, either treating them as producers of geopolitical representations or as geopolitical actors. An explicit engagement with what organizations are, what makes their actorness and what fashions them with power is missing. This contribution draws on ideas from actor-network theory (ANT) to conceptualize organizations as socio-material networks that emerge from continuous processes of ordering. Tracing these processes along the associations they establish should be an important task of a critical geopolitics. The paper sketches a research agenda around four nodes for such a focus on the socio-material practices of ordering: the circulation of geopolitical ideas, the production of geopolitics, governance at a distance and technologies of ordering.
Keywords :
organizations , Critical geopolitics , Performance , Actor-network theory (ANT) , materiality
Journal title :
Political Geography
Serial Year :
2012
Journal title :
Political Geography
Record number :
1293147
Link To Document :
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