Performing Mundane Materiality: Actor-Network Theory, Global Student Mobility and a Re/Formation of 'Social Capital'

Autor/inn/en	Salomão Filho, Alfredo; Kamp, Annelies
Titel	Performing Mundane Materiality: Actor-Network Theory, Global Student Mobility and a Re/Formation of 'Social Capital'
Quelle	In: Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 40 (2019) 1, S.122-135 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0159-6306
DOI	10.1080/01596306.2018.1549708
Schlagwörter	Social Capital; Student Mobility; Role; International Education; Social Networks; Foreign Students; Student Attitudes; Foreign Countries; Graduate Students; Undergraduate Students; English (Second Language); Ireland (Dublin); Brazil + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sozialkapital; Student; Students; Mobility; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Mobilität; Rollen; Internationale Erziehung; Social network; Soziales Netzwerk; Schülerverhalten; Ausland; Graduate Study; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Brasilien
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. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01