Social Nature
Collapsing Dichotomies without Unraveling the Fabric of Things
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1558/jsrnc.v2i2.258Keywords:
actor-network theory, social nature, interdisciplinarityAbstract
Noel Castree, Nature (Key Ideas in Geography; London and New York: Routledge, 2005), 312 pp., $38.95, ISBN: 9780415339056.
Bruno Latour, Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), 320 pp., $43.95, ISBN 13: 9780199256044.
John Law, After Method: Mess in Social Science Research (New York: Routledge, 2004), pp. 200, $54.95, ISBN: 978-0-415-34175-2.
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