People, plants and performance: On actor network theory and the material pleasures of the private garden
- 1 January 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Social & Cultural Geography
- Vol. 4 (1), 99-114
- https://doi.org/10.1080/1464936032000049333
Abstract
Actor network theory has received considerable attention within geography. In this paper I suggest that geographers have looked at these ideas in a particular way and that this can be productively complemented by an excursion into the contemporary private garden. Through exploring the ways in which people and plants live together there, some geographical criticisms of a defined actor network theory no longer seem to necessarily apply to a more diffuse set of actor network ideas. Furthermore, these ideas can also provide a productive means of engaging practically with the material presence of things, insofar as this materiality is important in the constitution of human cultural experience.Keywords
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