Dynamic hybrids and the geographies of technoscience: discussing conceptual resources beyond the human/non-human binary

Abstract

Citation: JONS, H., 2006. Dynamic hybrids and the geographies of technoscience: discussing conceptual resources beyond the human/non-human binary. Social & Cultural Geography, 7 (4), pp. 559-580.

Mobilities of Knowledge: An Introduction

“…Interestingly, Urry's (2007) focus on the material and communicative constitution of mobility systems seems to have led to the neglect of knowledge and concepts as the immaterial counterpart to material objects circulating in time and space. This resonates with Jöns's (2001Jöns's ( , 2003Jöns's ( , 2006 critique that actor-network theory has undervalued the focus of social constructivism on human interests, beliefs, and prior knowledge when stressing the material constitution of scientific knowledge production (see, in particular, the debate between Bloor [1999] and Latour [1999]). Her subsequent integration of these two complementary research foci in a "trinity of actants" outlines how both material and immaterial entities are produced, mediated, and transformed through the practices of humans and other "dynamic hybrids", including non-human organisms and certain machines such as robots (Jöns, 2006), and thus need all to be considered as mediators and outcomes of socio-cultural/material relationships (Jöns, 2001(Jöns, , 2003.…”

Framing, overflowing, and fuzzy logic in educational selection: Zurich as a case study

“…Beighton, 2012;Gorur, 2011Gorur, , 2014. Young people's geographers and geographers of education have also found sociomaterial approaches useful for enriching the theoretical and methodological debates in relation to formal and informal contexts of learning (Fenwick and Edwards, 2010;Horton and Kraftl, 2006;Jöns, 2006;Rautio, 2013). Crossing the boundaries between university and school, researchers have initiated new debates that have helped to read and analyse everyday classroom encounters through the lenses of ANT and socio-material approaches.…”

The new realist ontology

“…To date the new realist ontology has rejected privileging either the world of things or the world of thoughts, a perspective several geographers have called for (Murdoch 1996;Jöns 2006;steiner 2014b). Furthermore, the approach admits that humans have the ability to sense material things similarly, a position empirical research builds upon.…”

“…In this way the theory usage of financial geography corresponds to the general division of theory in human geography into realistic and rather anti-realist approaches (egner 2010;Mattissek et al 2013;steiner 2014a). Thereby, theories of SSoF popular in financial geography -like Actor-network theory (ANT) (Jöns 2006) and the theory on the performativity of economics ( Berndt 2011;ouMa 2012;christoPhers 2013) -can be counted as post-dualist theories (steiner 2014a) as they consider non-human objects in the construction of reality.…”