scholarly journals The origins of the teaching accounting in russian universities: lecturer and researcher Stepan Usov (1797 – 1859)

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Dmitry Nazarov ◽  
Marina Sidorova
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Previous Literature ◽  
Accounting Education ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
Russian Universities

The authors of the paper explore the life and professional activity of Stepan Mikhailovich Usov (1797-1859), as well as his views on the theory and practical implementation of new accounting techniques in agriculture. Usov was a talented researcher, an expert in agricultural sciences, political economy, history, and the publisher and editor of a number of Russian magazines. He worked hard all his life to disseminate knowledge about progressive technologies of agronomy and farm bookkeeping. Usov became one of the first lecturers in accounting, which he taught at St. Petersburg University in 1836 and this is in the focus of the study. Based on the Actor–network theory of Bruno Latour (ANT), the authors contribute to the previous literature within biographical studies and accounting education by identifying Usov’s role in the development of Russian accounting as a mediator in the network of educational institutions, which transformed accounting into a university discipline.

Talking about Associations and Descriptions or a Short Story about Associology

2017 ◽  
pp. 220-233
Author(s):  
Beate Ochsner
Keyword(s):  
Short Story ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Human Actors ◽  
Agency And Structure

In 1999, Bruno Latour advocated for “abandoning what was wrong with ANT, that is ‘actor,' ‘network,' ‘theory' without forgetting the hyphen.” However, it seems that the “hyphen,” which brings with it the operation of hyphenating or connecting, was abandoned too quickly. If one investigates what something is by asking what it is meant as well as how it emerges, by (re-)tracing the strategy in materials in situated practices and sets of relations, and, by bypassing the distinction between agency and structure, one shifts from studying “what causes what” to describing “how things happen.” This perspective not only makes it necessary for us to clarify the changing positions and displacements of human and non-human actors in the assemblage, but, also question the role (the enrolment) of the researcher him/herself: What kind of “relation” connects the researcher to his/her research and associates him/her with the subject, how to prevent (or not) his/her own involvement, and, to what degree s/he ignores the relationality of his/her writing in a “sociology of association?”

From the Sacred to the Sacred Object

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edwin Sayes ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Social Thought ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Rene Girard ◽  
Michel Serres ◽  
Sacred Object ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The philosophy of Bruno Latour has given us one of the most important statements on the part played by technology in the ordering of the human collective. Typically presented as a radical departure from mainstream social thought, Latour is not without his intellectual creditors: Michel Serres and, through him, René Girard. By tracing this development, we are led to understand better the relationship of Latour’s work, and Actor-Network Theory more generally, to traditional sociological concerns. By doing so we can also hope to understand better the role that objects play in structuring society.

scholarly journals Latour and Literary Studies

PMLA ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 130 (3) ◽  
pp. 737-742 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Felski
Keyword(s):  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Style Of Thought

I am interested in questions of reading and interpretation. I am also drawn to actor-network theory and the work of Bruno Latour. Can these attractions be brought into alignment? To what extent can a style of thought that describes itself as empiricist and rejects critique speak to the dominant concerns of literary studies? Can actor-network theory help us think more adequately about interpretation? Might it inspire us to become more generous readers? How do literary studies and Latourian thought engage, enlist, seduce, or speak past each other? What duels, rivalries, intrigues, appropriations, or love affairs will ensue?

scholarly journals Bibliotekarerne - en profession der former og formes af et aktør-netværk

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 4-20
Author(s):  
Trine Schreiber
Keyword(s):  
Network Theory ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Actor Networks ◽  
Ethnographic Methodology ◽  
Data Collection Procedure

Using actor network theory (ANT) as a starting point, the aim of the paper is to describe relationships between heterogenous actors in a particular kind of library work and to discuss how these relationships might potentially be part of a preliminary actor-network representing a profession of librarianship. The particular kind of library work involved in the discussion is user teaching and -guidance in libraries affiliated with educational institutions. The paper draws on this particular kind of work to illustrate the use of ANT in a discussion about the profession of librarianship. The data collection procedure has been guided by ethnographic methodology considerations. As an actor-network, a profession is not a static entity organised around fixed connections. It is undergoing shifts in character as new actors or relations are forged and old ones wear out. Regarding the particular kind of library work, the paper has a focus on actors such as librarians, teachers, students, digital technologies, and political paradigms of control. The author examines how librarians in the particular kind of library work create and maintain relationships with teachers and students. The paper provides a description of the ways influential actors such as digital technologies and political paradigms of control intervene in these processes. The paper concludes that through these relationships, new areas of work and new understandings of professions are under way to be established. These processes might lead to an actor-network intertwined with those many other actor-networks that librarians in general are involved in because of other practices and relationships.

scholarly journals Teologi som ulike biter og deler. Ti år med trosopplæring i Den norske kirke

Prismet ◽  
1970 ◽  
pp. 125-144
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Tveito Johnsen
Keyword(s):  
Education Reform ◽  
Christian Education ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
Theoretical Contribution ◽  
Persuasive Discourse ◽  
Christian Practices ◽  
Internally Persuasive Discourse

This article analyzes how «theology» has been understood and practised in discussions taking place in relation to the implementation of the Christian Education Reform in Church of Norway. One of the main findings is that previous research has been discursive in their way of approaching theology as an authoritative discourse. Seeking to establish theology as an internally persuasive discourse, this article argues that activities beyond what has traditionally been understood as particularly Christian practices should be included as a constituting part of the educational programs taking place in Church of Norway. Being the first article to analyze the ten first years of the Christian Education Reform, its main theoretical contribution is to demonstrate how an ANT approach can question conceptions of theology often taken for granted in this empirical field.Keywords: Actor-Network-Theory (ANT) • Bruno Latour • John Law • Modes of Syncretism • Self-Ethnography • Conceptions of Theology • The Christian Education Reform in Church of Norway.Nøkkelord: Aktør-nettverk-teori (ANT) • Bruno Latour • John Law • Synkretismemoduser • Selv-etnografi • Teologibegreper • Trosopplæringsreformen i Den norske kirke.

The Sentiment Revealed in Social Networks during the Games of the Brazilian Team in the 2014 World Cup

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 41-51
Author(s):  
Rita Paulino
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Applied Research ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
World Cup ◽  
Fifa World Cup ◽  
Theoretical Contribution ◽  
Data Form ◽  
Sociotechnical Networks

The participation of people in social networks is undeniably a contemporary phenomenon that presents as a characteristic not only the flow of explicit information in data form, natural and complex, but also some information (data) from the network's own movement. It is in this context that this article fits with the purpose of revealing information that is implied in participatory movements of sociotechnical networks. For this, one can rely on the conceptual theoretical contribution about Actor-Network Theory (ANT), by Bruno Latour (2012): “follow things through the networks they carry”. It is believed that by following the movements of social networks, one can view information that reflects feelings and actions that are implied in the connections about facts and events. In this article, the author will analyze and monitor social networks during the games of the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil. This approach brings us to an applied research and experimental.

Between Blackboxing and Unfolding

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 47-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingrid Christine Reite
Keyword(s):  
Professional Learning ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Interesting Case ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Learning Networks ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
A Value ◽  
Everyday Work ◽  
The Church

In this article the author will analyse professional learning of pastors. Pastors can be an example of a value-oriented profession being both a keeper of traditions and an innovator facing the challenges of globalization and secularization. The analysis of pastor networks is therefore an interesting case of professional learning in a changing society. The author presents an ethnographic study of five pastors from the Church of Norway doing their everyday work. The author asks: What characterize the professional learning networks of pastors between blackboxing and unfolding? The analytical perspectives of Actor-Network Theory and Bruno Latour (1987) are employed, as the author argues that professional learning is a process of moving between “blackboxing” and “unfolding”. Thus, the author brings a socio-material perspective into the value-oriented field of education. The case of pastors can contribute to elaborate the tools for analysing professional learning The findings illuminate the challenges many professionals have today, namely to handle different modes of learning.

ANTi-Human

2017 ◽  
pp. 266-276
Author(s):  
Michel Schreiber
Keyword(s):  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
Good Tool ◽  
National Rifle Association ◽  
Ethical Philosophy ◽  
Specific Approach ◽  
Good Citizen ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Human Side

In his writings on the gunman, Bruno Latour (1994) paraphrases the anti-human ideology of the National Rifle Association of the USA. Amongst a long list of stances one can find nonsense such as: “One is born a good citizen or a criminal. Period.” I will not suggest that Latour is an advocate in favor of the NRA's strange cause or in favor of their ideology. Nevertheless, will I use this example to point out the biggest flaw in the so called Actor-Network Theory – or at least Latour's version of ANT: The absolute ignorance to ethical doubts towards that specific approach of describing our world and what ONE calls society. I will bring forth this argument using not much more than this one example, this absolute negation of ethical philosophy and humane thought. I will therefore use a very fundamentalist approach to ethics, as it was developed by Emanuel Levinas (1988). Within this framework it will become obvious why ANT may be a good tool to describe technical processes within a society, but will always fail to explain the human side of things.

Actor-Networks in Music History: Clarifications and Critiques

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
BENJAMIN PIEKUT
Keyword(s):  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Music History ◽  
John Cage ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
General Introduction ◽  
Actor Networks ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Methodological Principles ◽  
Agency Action

AbstractThis article offers clarifications and critiques of actor-network theory and its usefulness for music historiography. Reviewing the work of ANT theorists Bruno Latour, Annemarie Mol, and other social theorists (such as Georgina Born and Anna Tsing), the author explains that ANT is a methodology, not a theory. As a general introduction, the author outlines ANT's methodological presuppositions about human and non-human agency, action, ontology, and performance. He then examines how these methodological principles affect three concerns of music-historical interest: influence, genre, and context. In conclusion, he addresses problems related to temporality, critique, and reflexivity. He draws on music-historical examples after 1960: John Cage, the Jazz Composer's Guild, Henry Cow, Iggy Pop, and the Velvet Underground.

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