Table of Contents

Introduction: How to Resume the Task of Tracing Associations
Part I: How to Deploy Controversies About the Social World
1: Learning to Feed from Controversies
2: First Source of Uncertainty: No Group, Only Group Formation
3: Second Source of Uncertainty: Action is Overtaken
4: Third Source of Uncertainty: Objects Too Have Agency
5: Fourth Source of Uncertainty: Matters of Fact vs. Matters of Concern
6: Fifth Source of Uncertainty: Writing Down Risky Accounts
7: On the Difficulty of Being an ANT - An Interlude in Form of a Dialog
Part II: How to Render Associations Traceable Again
8: Why is it So Difficult to Trace the Social?
9: How to Keep the Social Flat
10: First Move: Localizing the Global
11: Second Move: Redistributing the Local
12: Third Move: Connecting Sites
13: Conclusion: From Society to Collective - Can the Social be Reassembled?

Promotional Information

Bruno Latour was awarded the Holberg International Memorial Prize in 2013

About the Author

Bruno Latour is a Professor at the Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris. Having been trained as a philosopher, then an anthropologist, Bruno Latour specialized in the analysis of scientists and engineers at work, and published works on philosophy, history, sociology, and the anthropology of science. He is the author of Laboratory Life (Princeton University Press), We Have Never Been Modern
(Harvard University Press), and Pandora's Hope: Essays in the Reality of Science Studies (Harvard University Press).

Reviews

`...both an important theoretical social science work and a useful primer for social research generally.'
The New Zealand Geographical Society
`Latour's book can also serve, not so much as a model to copy, but certainly as a source of inspiration for how to write a social science text: vividly, engagingly, eloquently.'
Organization Studies