The ‘Missing Masses’ of Resistance: An Ethnographic Understanding of a Workplace Dispute
通过民族志研究一场英国大学的工作场所纠纷，揭示物质物品与人类行动者如何共同成功动员反对强制裁员，对关注组织抵抗和行动者网络理论的学者有参考价值。
The literature on resistance has largely attended to human agents whether in terms of collective action or individual subjectivity. Through focusing on the ‘missing masses’ or mundane material artefacts, this paper seeks to show how actor network theory (ANT) can advance our understanding of resistance. Drawing upon ethnographic research during a workplace dispute, this study explores how material artefacts as well as human actors reflect heterogeneous relations that together successfully mobilized opposition to the imposition of compulsory redundancies in a UK university. In so far as the mingling and entanglement of humans and non‐humans have been largely neglected in accounts of resistance, we believe that an ANT informed account contributes in distinctive ways to this literature.