Resisting Pictures: Representation, Distribution and Ontological Politics

Law, John; Benschop, Ruth

doi:10.1111/j.1467-954x.1997.tb03460.x

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“…This is partly because "re-presentation" is not about reflecting an objective world "out there", but is about presenting the world and making choices about what the world is or is not (Law & Benschop, 1997). This process of choosing what composes the world (its ontology) is inherently 114 M. Tait & O.…”

Section: The Representation Of Space and The Translation Of Ideasmentioning

confidence: 95%

Travelling Ideas, Power and Place: The Cases of Urban Villages and Business Improvement Districts

Tait

Jensen

2007

International Planning Studies

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A multitude of concepts and ideas have shaped practices in professions such as planning, urban design and urban management. Now, however, the speed and intensity with which these ideas travel seems historically unprecedented. This paper explores how some of these ideas are formed and circulated, often with unpredictable consequences. In order to understand the circulation and impact of these ideas this paper constructs an analytical framework which views these concepts within wider networks of social agents and institutions. Using insights from actor-network theory and discourse analysis we propose a framework that focuses our understanding of how ideas are translated into new spatial settings. The examples of the urban village and the business improvement district will be used to explicate the analytical framework. In concluding, the paper assesses the utility of the analytic framework in explaining the travel of planning ideas.

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Section: The Representation Of Space and The Translation Of Ideasmentioning

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Travelling Ideas, Power and Place: The Cases of Urban Villages and Business Improvement Districts

Tait

Jensen

2007

International Planning Studies

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“…At the internal level, researchers in integrated research must negotiate the creative tensions between various agendas, interests, agendas, methods and objects of inquiry between themselves and their collaborators. This is the work of managing differences between scientific and other knowledge/s, or what science studies scholars have called the business of 'ontological politics' (Law and Benschop, 1997;Mol, 1999). The social relations between researchers necessarily involve contestation, debate and the exercise of power (Gardner, 2013) in order to achieve certain outcomes.…”

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Doing integration in catchment management research: Insights into a dynamic learning process

Ayre

Nettle

2015

Environmental Science & Policy

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“…Justesen and Mouritsen () show how multiple modes of accounting can be enacted through the same set of visual images, namely photographs and 3D visualizations in the annual reports of a property development firm, that serve both to engage the ‘outside’ world to the activities of the firm, and to enrol those affiliated with the firm in certain roles and obligations (see also Mouritsen et al ., ). Law and Benschop () juxtapose four traditions in painting (from geometrical Renaissance art to Aboriginal art) to show how these frame subject/object distinctions, narratives and spatialities in different ways. This juxtaposition serves to denaturalize a ‘perspectival’ mode of accounting in which everything has to add up, instead creating room for multiplicity.…”

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Visual Accountability

Neyland¹,

Coopmans²

2014

The Sociological Review

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In this article, we draw attention to the way in which accountability relations are manifested in and through the use of visual evidence. Through their status as representations of what is the case, evidentiary visual images frequently provide a basis for giving accounts and for raising questions regarding distributions of accountability. At the same time, and in a similar manner to numbers (Munro, 2001), such images become part of organized relations of accountability that can be noted as having ‘hailing’ effects: they call for and prefigure a certain kind of response and dispersing of responsibility. Here we examine how the use of visual evidence is embedded in discursive and material practices that variously create or inhibit possibilities for questioning, or interrogating, this evidence. Drawing on elements of ethnomethodology and actor‐network theory, we use ‘interrogation’ as the basis for depicting a three‐part analytical schema focused on opening up, closing down and temporality to explore how visual accountability is worked out in surveillance, traffic management and breast screening images.

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Resisting Pictures: Representation, Distribution and Ontological Politics

Cited by 8 publications

References 11 publications

Travelling Ideas, Power and Place: The Cases of Urban Villages and Business Improvement Districts

Travelling Ideas, Power and Place: The Cases of Urban Villages and Business Improvement Districts

Doing integration in catchment management research: Insights into a dynamic learning process

Visual Accountability

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