The turn to ontology, often associated with the recent works of Philippe Descola, Eduardo
Viveiros de Castro, and Bruno Latour, but evident in many other places as well, is, in …

This chapter reviews recent developments in the rich and growing body of research and
theory which has come to be known as social shaping of technology (SST). 1 It is structured …

Situational Analysis creates analytic maps of social processes and relationships identified
using grounded theory. Creator of the method, award-winning sociologist Adele E. Clarke …

Practice-based approaches to knowing, learning, innovating, and managing have thrived in
recent years. Calling upon numerous narratives from a range of research fields, the author …

If our oil addiction is so bad for us, why don't we kick the habit? Looking beyond the usual
culprits—Big Oil, petro-states, and the strategists of empire—Lifeblood finds a deeper and …

This chapter presents an overview of situational analysis, an extension of grounded theory.
Here I engage the question:“What's new in situational analysis and how does it differ from …

The Body Multiple is an extraordinary ethnography of an ordinary disease. Drawing on
fieldwork in a Dutch university hospital, Annemarie Mol looks at the day-to-day diagnosis …

John Law argues that methods don't just describe social realities but are also involved in
creating them. The implications of this argument are highly significant. If this is the case …

It is through action and interaction within practices that mind, rationality and knowledge are
constituted and social life is organized, reproduced and transformed. During the past two …

Digital data—including technologically-mediated data generated by blockchain-enabled
traceability—is performing an increasingly integral role in extractive operations, but scarce …