Organizing Alignment: A Case of Bridge-Building
通过民族志方法研究土木工程师设计桥梁的工作，揭示桥梁建造不仅是技术工程，更是通过叙事和说服来协调人与非人要素的过程。
The project of building a bridge is a canonical example of what John Law (1987) has termed `heterogeneous engineering', involving the arrangement of human and nonhuman elements into a stable artifact. This paper reports ethnographic research on the work of civil engineers engaged in designing a bridge scheduled for completion by the year 2004. My emphasis is on a view of bridge-building as persuasive performances that both rely upon and reflexively constitute the elements to be aligned. The work of designing a bridge, on this view, is as much a matter of story-telling as of analysis, calculation, and work with concrete and steel.