Richie Nimmo is a senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Manchester, where he teaches and researches human–animal relations, posthumanism, and environmental sociology. He edited the SAGE collection Actor-Network Theory Research and is author of Milk, Modernity and the Making of the Human as well as journal articles and book chapters in human–animal studies.

Actor-Network Theory has been hugely influential across the social sciences and far beyond, and this volume serves as an ideal overview of both its core themes and its many developments and uses. Richie Nimmo has done an admirable job in compiling an excellent mix of classic statements, extended elaborations, critical commentaries, and empirical application.For anyone interested in exploring the promise of Actor-Network Theory ­ whether that be theoretical, methodological or political - Actor-Network Theory Research is an essential resource.

• VOLUME ONE: EMERGENCE, DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSFORMATION – PART ONEPart One: Introduction‘From Generalised Symmetry to Ontological Politics and After: Tracing Actor-Network Theory’. - Richie NimmoPart Two:The Sociology of TranslationAn Anthropologist Visits the Laboratory - Bruno Latour and Steve WoolgarStruggles and Negotiations to Define What Is Problematic and What Is Not: The Socio-logic of Translation - Michel CallonOn Interests and Their Transformation: Enrolment and Counter-Enrolment - Michel Callon and John LawGive Me a Laboratory and I Will Raise the World - Bruno LatourSome Elements of a Sociology of Translation: Domestication of the Scallops and the Fishermen of St Brieuc Bay - Michel CallonPart Three: Techno-Politics and Sociotechnical RelationsOn Power and Its Tactics: A View from the Sociology of Science - John LawSociety in the Making: The Study of Technology as a Tool for Sociological Analysis - Michel CallonMixing Humans and Nonhumans Together: The Sociology of a Door-Closer - Jim JohnsonThe De-Scription of Technical Objects - Madeleine AkrichThe Politics of Formalism - John BowersPart Four: Reflexivity, Heterogeneity and SymmetryThe Politics of Explanation: An Alternative - Bruno LatourNotes on the Theory of the Actor-Network: Ordering, Strategy, Heterogeneity - John LawBehaviour Modification of a Catflap: A Contribution to the Sociology of Things - Malcolm AshmoreConstructing Actor-Network Theory - Mike MichaelPart Five: Topology and Post-Social OntologiesRegions, Networks and Fluids: Anaemia and Social Topology - Annemarie Mol and John LawAfter the Individual in Society: Lessons in Collectivity from Science, Technology and Society - Michel Callon and John LawMaterialities, Globalities, Spatialities - Kevin Hetherington and John LawObjects and Spaces - John LawThe Social as Association - Bruno LatourVOLUME TWO: EMERGENCE, DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSFORMATION – PART TWOPart One: Materiality and Ontological PoliticsNotes on Materiality and Sociality - John Law and Annemarie MolOntological Politics: A Word and Some Questions - Annemarie MolIn the Middle of the Network - Andrew BarryOn Politics and the Little Tools of Democracy: A Down-to-Earth Approach - Kristin AsdalActor-Network Theory, Organizations and Critique: Towards a Politics of Organizing - Rafael Alcadipani and John HassardANT and Politics: Working In and On the World - John Law and Vicky SingletonPart Two: Method Assemblages and InscriptionsOn Making Data Social: Heterogeneity in Sociological Practice - Mike MichaelEnacting the Social - John Law and John UrryActor-Network Theory: Sensitive Terms and Enduring Tensions - Annemarie MolActor-Network Theory and Methodology: Just What Does It Mean to Say that Nonhumans Have Agency? - Edwin SayesActor-Network Theory and the Ethnographic Imagination: An Exercise in Translation - Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Diana Graizbord and Michael Rodriguez-MuñizReassembling Social Science Methods: The Challenge of Digital Devices - Evelyn Ruppert, John Law and Mike SavagePart Three: Critiques and ClarificationsEpistemological Chicken - Harry Collins and Steven YearleyDon’t Throw the Baby Out with the Bath School! A Reply to Collins and Yearley - Michel Callon and Bruno LatourAgency and the Hybrid Collectif - Michel Callon and John LawOn Actor Network Theory: A Few Clarifications - Bruno LatourLiving Dangerously with Bruno Latour in a Hybrid World - Mark ElamReconstructing Humants: A Humanist Critique of Actant-Network Theory - Frédéric VandenbergheVOLUME THREE: TRANSLATIONS, PARALLELS AND MOBILISATIONS – PART ONEPart One: Performing Markets, Finance and EconomicsPeripheral Vision: Economic Markets as Calculative Collective Devices - Fabian Muniesa and Michel CallonAn Essay on the Growing Contribution of Economic Markets to the Proliferation of the Social - Michel CallonAssembling an Economic Actor: The Agencement of a Hedge Fund - Iain Hardie and Donald MacKenzieWhat Does It Mean to Say that Economics Is Performative? - Michel CallonPart Two: Arts, Taste and CulturesChalk Steps on the Museum Floor: The ‘Pulses’ of Objects in an Art Installation - Alberta YanevaThe Work of Culture - Tony BennettThose Things that Hold Us Together: Taste and Sociology - Antoine HennionPerforming Calculation in the Art Market - Marta HerreroThe Creative Assemblage: Theorizing Contemporary Forms of Arts-based Collaboration - Kay Anderson and Philip MarObjects, Words and Bodies in Space: Bringing Materiality into Cultural Analysis - Wendy Griswold, Gemma Mangione and Terence McDonnellPart Three: Bodies, Medicine and DisabilitiesDifferent Atheroscleroses - Annemarie MolEmbodied Action, Enacted Bodies: The Example of Hypoglycaemia - Annemarie Mol and John LawSociotechnical Practices and Difference: On the Interferences between Disability, Gender and Class - Ingunn MoserTechnoscientific Bodies: Making the Corporeal in Everyday Life - Mike MichaelActor-Networks of Dementia. - Michael SchillmeierWhen Alcohol Acts: An Actor-Network Approach to Teenagers, Alcohol and Parties - Jakob DemantVOLUME FOUR: TRANSLATIONS, PARALLELS AND MOBILISATIONS – PART TWOPart One: Hybrid Geographies and SpacesTowards a Geography of Heterogeneous Associations` - Jonathan MurdochDissolving Dualisms: Actor-Networks and the Reimagination of Nature - Noel Castree and Tom MacmillanIntroducing Hybrid Geographies - Sarah WhatmoreUrban Wild Things: A Cosmopolitical Experiment - Steve Hinchliffe, Matthew Kearnes, Monica Degen and Sarah WhatmoreGlobalizations Big and Small: Notes on Urban Studies, Actor-Network Theory and Geographical Scale - Alan Latham and Derek McCormackEarthly Powers and Affective Environments: An Ontological Politics of Flood Risk - Sarah WhatmorePart Two: Ecologies, Natures and EnvironmentsSociety, Nature, Knowledge: Co-constructing the Social and the Natural - Alan IrwinThe Problematic Nature of Nature: The Post-Constructivist Challenge to Environmental History - Kristin AsdalA Plea for Earthly Sciences: Keynote Lecture for the Annual Meeting of the British Sociological Association, East London, April 2007 - Bruno LatourThe Making of Climate Publics: Eco-Homes as Material Devices of Publicity - Noortje MarresTopologies of Climate Change: Actor-Network Theory, Relational-Scalar Analytics, and Carbon Market Overflows - Anders BlokPart Three: Animal Actants and Multi-Species AssemblagesElephants on the Move: Spatial Formations of Wildlife Exchange - Sarah Whatmore and Lorraine ThorneRoadkill: Between Humans, Nonhuman Animals, and Technologies. - Mike MichaelBees, Butterflies, and Bacteria: Biotechnology and the Politics of Nonhuman Friendship - Nick BinghamThe Actor-Enacted: Cumbrian Sheep in 2001 - John Law and Annemarie MolBovine Mobilities and Vital Movements: Flows of Milk, Mediation and Animal Agency - Richie Nimmo