CCR691 – Final Project – Hunter
Hunter, Shona. “Oscillating Politics and Shifting Agencies: Equalities and Diversity Work and Actor Network Theory.” Equal Opportunities International 26 5 (2007): 402-19. Print. This essay uses ANT to develop an analysis of Iopia, a Black woman equalities educator working in a prison in the UK in an education context. The article hopes to demonstrate how the actor-network interacts with both human and non human objects to “challenge racism”... Read More
CCR691 – Project Proposal
Justin Lewis Final Project Proposal October 15, 2009 CCR691 Overview Motivation When I applied to Syracuse University a little over a year ago, I had every intention of working with folks who did “digital” rhetoric studies. Though my understanding of this particular subfield of the discipline was rather malformed and deficient, I did know that Collin Brooke and Adam Banks both dealt with issues of technology in theory and practice. Since arriving here a couple of months... Read More
CCR601 – Final Project – Richardson
Richardson, Pamela. “Agricultural Ethics, Neurotic Natures and Emotional Encounters: An Application of Actor-Network Theory.” Ethics, Place & Environment 7 3 (2004): 195-201. Print. This paper arises out of a particular tension between the author and the multiple “actants” that constituted the research subjects she interviewed in a trip to Barbados to conduct fieldwork on the relationship between agriculture and tourism. The author uses ANT... Read More
CCR691 – Final Project – Routledge, et.al.
Routledge, Paul, Andrew Cumbers, and Corinne Nativel. “Grassrooting Network Imaginaries: Relationality, Power, and Mutual Solidarity in Global Justice Networks.” Environment and Planning A 39 11 (2007): 2575-92. Print. This piece looks at the Latourian notion of “translation” to see how connections are created and sustained within a network of global justice – People’s Global Action Asia. In so doing, this piece discusses how ANT is political and introduces... Read More
CCR691 – Final Project – Rice
Rice, Jeff. “Urban Mappings: A Rhetoric of the Network.” RSQ: Rhetoric Society Quarterly 38 2 (2008): 198-218. Print. Rice begins with the contention that websites such as Google Maps and MapQuest are really sites of invention where new media is used for inventive practices of informational arrangements The “spaces” being mapped on the net are not only spatial. . . they are often ephemeral and personal. The “territories” where all this mapping occurs are... Read More
