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Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - ANT, multplicity and policy
AU - Law, John
AU - Singleton, Vicky
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - In this article, we explore the potential of actor network theory and feminist material semiotics as a set of tools for critical policy analysis. We describe their focus on material heterogeneity, ontological multiplicity and performativity, and consider how this both generates political and policy possibilities and impossibilities and also creates the potential for change. We explore this by considering the British policy response to the 2001 foot and mouth disease epidemic, which we treat as a case of ontological multiplicity, and ask what might have happened if policy makers had recognized and responded to this multiplicity.
AB - In this article, we explore the potential of actor network theory and feminist material semiotics as a set of tools for critical policy analysis. We describe their focus on material heterogeneity, ontological multiplicity and performativity, and consider how this both generates political and policy possibilities and impossibilities and also creates the potential for change. We explore this by considering the British policy response to the 2001 foot and mouth disease epidemic, which we treat as a case of ontological multiplicity, and ask what might have happened if policy makers had recognized and responded to this multiplicity.
KW - actor network theory
KW - feminist material semiotics
KW - foot-and-mouth disease;
KW - policy
KW - ontological multiplicity
U2 - 10.1080/19460171.2014.957056
DO - 10.1080/19460171.2014.957056
M3 - Journal article
VL - 8
SP - 379
EP - 396
JO - Critical Policy Studies
JF - Critical Policy Studies
SN - 1946-0171
IS - 4
ER -