Urban assemblages : how actor-network theory changes urban studies /
How actor-network theory changes urban studies
edited by Ignacio Farías and Thomas Bender.
- 1st ed.
- xvi, 333 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Questioning cities .
- Questioning cities series. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Gelleable spaces, eventful geographies : the case of Santiago's experimental music scene / Globalizations big and small : notes on urban studies, actor-network theory, and geographical scale / Urban studies without "scale" : localizing the global through Singapore / Assembling asturias : scaling devices and cultural leverage / Interview with Nigel Thrift / How do we co-produce urban transport systems and the city? : the case of Transmilenio and Bogotá / Changing obdurate urban objects : the attempts to reconstruct the highway through Maastricht / Mutable immobiles : building conversion as a problem of quasi-technologies / Conviction and commotion : on soundspheres, technopolitics, and urban space / Interview with Stephen Graham / The reality of urban tourism : framed activity and virtual ontology / Assembling money and the senses : revisiting Georg Simmel and the city / The city as value locus : markets, technologies, and the problem of worth / Second empire, second nature, secondary world : Verne and Baudelaire in the capital of the nineteenth century / Interview with Rob Shields / Manuel Tironi -- Alan Latham and Derek McCormack -- Richard G. Smith -- Don Slater and Tomas Ariztía -- Ignacio Farías -- Andrés Valderrama Pineda -- Anique Hommels -- Michael Guggenheim -- Israel Rodríguez Giralt, Daniel López Gómez and Noel García López -- Ignacio Farías -- Ignacio Farías -- Michael Schillmeier -- Caitlin Zaloom -- Rosalind Williams -- Ignacio Farías.
This study proposes - and its various chapters offer demonstrations - importing into urban studies a body of theories, concepts, and perspectives developed in the field of science and technology studies (STS) and, more specifically, Actor-Network Theory (ANT).