Opening the black box of the organization: Socio-material practices of geopolitical ordering
Journal
Political Geography
ISSN
0962-6298
ISSN-Digital
1873-5096
Type
journal article
Date Issued
2012-08
Author(s)
Mueller, Martin
Abstract
Despite their implication in almost all aspects of the field, organizations remain a black box within critical geopolitics. The majority of the literature looks at organizations from the outside, either treating them as producers of geopolitical representations or as geopolitical actors. An explicit engagement with what organizations are, what makes their actorness and what fashions them with power is missing. This contribution draws on ideas from actor-network theory (ANT) to conceptualize organizations as socio-material networks that emerge from continuous processes of ordering. Tracing these processes along the associations they establish should be an important task of a critical geopolitics. The paper sketches a research agenda around four nodes for such a focus on the socio-material practices of ordering: the circulation of geopolitical ideas, the production of geopolitics, governance at a distance and technologies of ordering.
Language
English
Keywords
organizations
critical geopolitics
actor-network theory (ANT)
performance
materiality
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
HSG Profile Area
SHSS - Kulturen, Institutionen, Maerkte (KIM)
Refereed
Yes
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Publisher place
Amsterdam
Volume
31
Number
6
Start page
379
End page
388
Pages
10
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
69455
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