Performing mundane materiality: Actor-Network Theory, global student mobility and a re/formation of ‘social capital’
Salomão Filho A, Kamp A (2018)
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2018
Journal
Book Volume: 40
Pages Range: 122-135
Issue: 1
DOI: 10.1080/01596306.2018.1549708
Abstract
Social capital is a puzzling actor; made real by its allies. It has been ‘out-there’ in the form of scientific publications for decades. Although some characteristics are common to all elaborations of this theory (networks, trust, and norms), there remains confusion in determining a ‘coherent concept’ of social capital. In this paper, we make use of such ‘incoherence gap’ to open an experimental theoretical and, subsequently, analytical space. Based on empirical research with mobile students and assemblages of non-human actors, the paper offers two investigative gatherings. First, the Bourdieusian approach to ‘social capital’ is discussed, allowing relational ontologies to enter the scene. Second, consideration is given to issues of performativity and the relevance of materiality for empirical social capital investigations. Despite the degree of ontological security social capital has managed to achieve, we question the disregard for the performative role of non-human entities in the context of global student mobility.
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APA:
Salomão Filho, A., & Kamp, A. (2018). Performing mundane materiality: Actor-Network Theory, global student mobility and a re/formation of ‘social capital’. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 40, 122-135. https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2018.1549708
MLA:
Salomão Filho, Alfredo, and Annelies Kamp. "Performing mundane materiality: Actor-Network Theory, global student mobility and a re/formation of ‘social capital’." Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 40 (2018): 122-135.
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