Lange hat es gedauert (Geduld ist im Publikationsfragen wirklich ein wichtiger Faktor), aber in der Novemberausgabe von International Sociology ist tatsächlich Nicholas J. Rowlands und mein Aufsatz “Actor Network State. Integrating Actor-Network Theory and State Theory” erschienen. Das für mich immer noch Unglaubliche an diesem Text ist, dass er über einen Ozean hinweg entstehen konnte – was könnte da alles entstehen, wenn man sich nicht immer nur in GDocs, Skype oder Jabber bewegen würde.
Hier das Abstract:
This conceptual article draws on literature in the sociology of science on modelling. The authors suggest that if state theory can be conceptualized as an ‘engine’ rather than merely a ‘camera’, in that policy is mobilized to make the world fit the theory, then this has implications for conceptualizing states. To examine this possibility the authors look through the lens of actor-network theory (ANT) and in doing so articulate a relationship between two models of the state in the literature. They find that an ‘actor model’ of the state is accepted by many scholars, few of whom develop ‘network models’ of the state. In response, this study introduces an actor-network model and proposes that its contribution to state theory is in rethinking the character of modern states to be the outcome of actually performed assemblages of all those practices of building it, protecting it, governing it and theorizing about it.
Und hier der Verweis: Passoth, Jan-H.; Rowland, Nicholas J. (2010) Actor-Network State. Integrating Actor-Network-Theory and State Theory. International Sociology. 25 (6), S. 818-841.