Agency has been central to modern conceptions of politics but it is a complicated and
contested idea that seems to have fallen into both theoretical and historical crisis. I explore …

A better appreciation of the material, distributed quality of human agency can illuminate
subtle dynamics of domination and oppression and reveal resources for potentially …

In this article, I note that the idea of a new materialist turn has recently been gathering steam.
The first part considers some of the signature elements of the new materialisms. The most …

This article evaluates Mark Bevir and Rod Rhodes' interpretive approach to political analysis
by examining their account of social change. Their work is significant because they have …

An essential feature of political representation is that a mediating assembly is set between
the citizenry and political decision making. Representation involves indirect decision making …

Liberalism and the politics of identity seem incompatible. Liberalism starts from the capacity
of reasonable individuals to order their lives. The politics of feminism and multiculturalism …

Distributed Agency presents an interdisciplinary inroad into the latest thinking about the
distributed nature of agency: what it's like, what are its conditions of possibility, and what are …

My concern in this chapter is to address analytically the role of agency in a com munication-
based perspective on organizing. Recent debates centering on agency and text in …

I begin with a question and three clarifications. How to think of agency in oppressive
contexts? By oppressive contexts, I mean the following: the absence of background …

This article examines the politics and explanatory plausibility of performative accounts of
state action through a critical analysis of the themes of continuity and change in the work of …