scholarly journals A fronteira entre a comunidade e a unidade de conservação mastigada pela formiga-onça

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (42) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael Nogueira Costa ◽  
Fátima Branquinho
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Education ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
National Park ◽  
Paulo Freire ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Conservation Unit ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Positivist Science ◽  
Nature And Society ◽  
Visual Record

Neste artigo apresentamos um professor de artes acompanhado de seis crianças da periferia de Macaé/RJ à procura dos animais do Parque Nacional da Restinga de Jurubatiba para serem desenhados numa prancheta de papel. As imagens fazem parte do registro de campo do Curso de Cinema Ambiental da UFRJ Macaé, conduzido no ano de 2013. Para construção do filme, fruto do curso, foi utilizado como referencial teórico as ideias de diálogo do pensador Paulo Freire. Ao seguirmos uma formiga na paisagem da restinga, diluímos as fronteiras entre a natureza e sociedade, conforme indica a teoria ator-rede. Com este registro visual pretendemos mostrar que as dicotomias criadas pelas ideias da ciência positivista são mais imaginárias do que real.Palavras-Chave: Cinema. Educação ambiental. Teoria ator-rede. Diálogo. Formiga.The boundary between the community and the conservation unit chewed by the ant-ounceAbstractIn this article we present a teacher of arts, accompanied by six children from the suburbs of Macaé/RJ in search of the animals of Restinga de Jurubatiba National Park to be drawn on a paper clipboard. The images are part of the field record of the UFRJ Macaé Environmental Film Course, conducted in 2013. For the construction of the film, as a result of the course, the ideas of dialogue of the thinker Paulo Freire were used as a theoretical reference. As we follow an ant in the restinga landscape, we dilute the boundaries between nature and society, as the actor-network theory indicates. With this visual record we are interested in showing that the dichotomies created by the ideas of positivist science are more imaginary than real.Keywords: Cinema. Environmental education. Actor-network theory. Dialogue. Ant. 

Inhuman/Nonhuman/Human: Actor-Network Theory and the Prospects for a Nondualistic and Symmetrical Perspective on Nature and Society

1997 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 731-756 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Murdoch
Keyword(s):  
Social Studies ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Critical Assessment ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Social Studies Of Science ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
Nature And Society

Recently human geographers and sociologists have begun to focus on the prospects for theories without dualisms. As a result of research on technology, animals, and the environment, it has become evident that a human-centred perspective, which continually positions humans as the only significant actors, cannot adequately take into account the various nonhumans which make up our world and upon which we depend. In large part the human-centredness of much social science derives from a sharp divide, a dualism, between nature and society and between the work of natural and human scientists. In this paper I consider one attempt to transgress this divide and assess the prospects for theories of this kind. The focus here is upon actor-network theory (ANT), an approach developed by Michel Callon, Bruno Latour, and John Law within social studies of science. I first outline the social studies which form the background to the development of ANT and then go on to elaborate the main contours of the approach, with particular emphasis on its transgression of the nature—society distinction. I conclude with a critical assessment of its strengths and weaknesses and attempt to show how it might be usefully combined with other, more traditional, social scientific concerns.

Adaptive Livelihood Strategies in Conservation-Induced Displacement: The Case of the Baka of East Cameroon

2015 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harrison Esam Awuh
Keyword(s):  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Livelihood Strategies ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Reserve Area ◽  
Nature And Society ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract:This article utilizes the Actor‒Network Theory (ANT) to guide thinking about the relationship between nature and society and how this relationship is severed by conservation-induced displacement. ANT’s view of interconnectivity between networks is used to argue that a network is only stable as long as actors remain faithful to it. In the case of the displaced Baka people of the Dja Reserve area in East Cameroon, resistance to conservation through adaptive practices following displacement can reverse or disrupt the socially predetermined order of a network, which in this case would be marginalization of the displaced. However, the marginal scale of their adaptation to change raises doubts over the sustainability of adaptation to post-displacement livelihoods.

scholarly journals Actor-network theory in studies of the nation and nationalism: the methodological aspect

KANT ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 281-291
Author(s):  
Konstantin Maltsev ◽  
Artem Alaverdyan
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
The Social ◽  
Methodological Problems ◽  
Nature And Society ◽  
Empirical Generalizations ◽  
Constructivist Approaches ◽  
The Relationship

Methodological provisions of B. Latour's actor-network theory: methodically grounded doubt in the conceptual reality and reality of the social, the need to distinguish between the social in social relations and the social in associations, the methodological requirement of "symmetry in the interpretation of nature and society" and the related new understanding of the social actor, are essentially close to the influential constructivist (R. Brubaker) approach in understanding the nation and the national. The article analyzes the relationship between "categorical" and "network" concepts in the study of the nature of "national", methodological problems of "compatibility" of actor-network and constructivist approaches to building the concept of "nation"; the conclusion is drawn that the permissibility of "methodological syncretism" is limited to the area of practical-oriented "empirical generalizations" that guide the political practice of nation-building and the regulation of national conflicts.

STRUCTURING A SUCCESSFUL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER PROCESS: A CASE STUDY FROM THE PERSPECTIVES OF ACTOR NETWORK THEORY

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huda Ibrahim ◽  
Hasmiah Kasimin
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Transfer Process ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Local Market ◽  
Private Company ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Technology Transfer Process

An effi cient and effective information technology transfer from developed countries to Malaysia is an important issue as a prerequisite to support the ICT needs of the country to become not only a ICT user but also a ICT producer. One of the factors that infl uences successful information technology transfer is managing the process of how technology transfer occurs in one environment. It involves managing interaction between all parties concerned which requires an organized strategy and action toward accomplishing technology transfer objective in an integrated and effective mode. Using a conceptual framework based on the Actor Network Theory (ANT), this paper will analyse a successful information technology transfer process at a private company which is also a supplier of information technology (IT) products to the local market. This framework will explain how the company has come up with a successful technology transfer in a local environment. Our study shows that the company had given interest to its relationships with all the parties involved in the transfer process. The technology transfer programme and the strategy formulated take into account the characteristics of technology and all those involved.  

The Action of Christian Buildings on their Chinese Environment

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 100-121
Author(s):  
Michel Chambon
Keyword(s):  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Active Part ◽  
Architectural Style ◽  
Actor Network

This article explores the ways in which Christians are building churches in contemporary Nanping, China. At first glance, their architectural style appears simply neo-Gothic, but these buildings indeed enact a rich web of significances that acts upon local Christians and beyond. Building on Actor-Network Theory and exploring the multiple ties in which they are embedded, I argue that these buildings are agents acting in their own right, which take an active part in the process of making the presence of the Christian God tangible.

The model of an intelligent information security control system for supply chains based on the spatial concepts of the actor-network theory

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 94-106
Author(s):  
Y.M. Iskanderov ◽  
◽  
M.D. Pautov
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Information Security ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Spatial Concepts ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Information Security Management System ◽  
Security Control ◽  
Intelligent Information

Aim. The use of modern information technologies makes it possible to achieve a qualitatively new level of control in supply chains. In these conditions, ensuring information security is the most important task. The article shows the possibilities of applying the spatial concepts of the actor-network theory in the interests of forming a relevant intelligent information security management system for supply chains. Materials and methods. The article discusses a new approach based on the provisions of the actor-network theory, which makes it possible to form the structure of an intelligent information security control system for supply chains, consisting of three main functional blocks: technical, psychological and administrative. The incoming information security threats and the relevant system responses generated through the interaction of the system blocks were considered as enacting the three Law’s spaces: the space of regions, the space of networks and the space of fl uids. Results. It is shown that the stability of this system in the space of networks is a necessary condition for its successful functioning in the space of regions, and its resilience in the space of fl uids gained through the dynamic knowledge formation helps overcome the adverse effects of the fl uidity. The problems of the intentional / unintentional nature of information security threats, as well as the reactivity / proactivity of the corresponding responses of the intelligent information security management system for supply chains are investigated. Conclusions. The proposed approach showed the possibility of using such an interdisciplinary tool in the fi eld of information security as the concepts of the actor-network theory. The intelligent information security control system built on its basis ensures that almost all the features of solving information security problems in supply chains are taken into account.

Death Sentencing by Zoom: An Actor-Network Theory Analysis

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milena Heinsch ◽  
Tania Sourdin ◽  
Caragh Brosnan ◽  
Hannah Cootes
Keyword(s):  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Theory Analysis ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Death Sentencing
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