ERIC Number: EJ1201146
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2019
Pages: 14
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Performing Mundane Materiality: Actor-Network Theory, Global Student Mobility and a Re/Formation of 'Social Capital'
Salomão Filho, Alfredo; Kamp, Annelies
Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, v40 n1 p122-135 2019
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.
Descriptors: Social Capital, Student Mobility, Role, International Education, Social Networks, Foreign Students, Student Attitudes, Foreign Countries, Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students, English (Second Language)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Ireland (Dublin); Brazil
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