Agencements are arrangements endowed with the capacity of acting in different ways depending upon how they are configured. In advocating the term 'agencement' Callon's aim is to signal the close interweaving of words and actions and thus jettison the more Austinian associations of performativity. Agencement calls attention to the various processes by which economic actors, both human and non-human, are endowed with the fixtures, fittings and devices necessary to conduct themselves in particular ways. Thus depending upon how things are arranged or configured, disinterested or selfish, calculative or non-calculative, individual or collective agencies become possible. This model works well to describe the emergence of markets for industrial br...
This article considers the labour management practices in use in the Australian life insurance indus...
The huge economic significance of longevity risk for corporations, governments and individuals is be...
The aim of the present volume is to analyse the genesis of modern life insurance by focusing on one ...
This paper addresses the role of the ‘good, average man’ or the ‘man at the door’ in marketing life ...
The role of life insurance, as portrayed by the industry, is to get individuals and heirs back in fi...
This paper is concerned with the commodification of the risk of death which occurred with the develo...
The market for life assurance did not emerge "naturally" from a particular problem of the allocation...
In naming his satirical version of a life assurance company The Anglo-Bengalee Disinterested Loan an...
This article examines the politics of calculative devices in one of the most successful areas of fin...
This article examines the politics of calculative devices in one of the most successful areas of fin...
Using the case of industrial assurance, this paper argues that a focused concern with the pragmatics...
This work is devoted of meaning life insurance in financing living. In introduction is circumscribed...
The structure of life insurance products is very complicated. For election one of the types of life ...
"Key to premiums for life assurance ... for all ages between 20 and 60, to insure £100, payable at d...
The following text shows how the mechanism of so-called “constructive assent” was used in social ins...
This article considers the labour management practices in use in the Australian life insurance indus...
The huge economic significance of longevity risk for corporations, governments and individuals is be...
The aim of the present volume is to analyse the genesis of modern life insurance by focusing on one ...
This paper addresses the role of the ‘good, average man’ or the ‘man at the door’ in marketing life ...
The role of life insurance, as portrayed by the industry, is to get individuals and heirs back in fi...
This paper is concerned with the commodification of the risk of death which occurred with the develo...
The market for life assurance did not emerge "naturally" from a particular problem of the allocation...
In naming his satirical version of a life assurance company The Anglo-Bengalee Disinterested Loan an...
This article examines the politics of calculative devices in one of the most successful areas of fin...
This article examines the politics of calculative devices in one of the most successful areas of fin...
Using the case of industrial assurance, this paper argues that a focused concern with the pragmatics...
This work is devoted of meaning life insurance in financing living. In introduction is circumscribed...
The structure of life insurance products is very complicated. For election one of the types of life ...
"Key to premiums for life assurance ... for all ages between 20 and 60, to insure £100, payable at d...
The following text shows how the mechanism of so-called “constructive assent” was used in social ins...
This article considers the labour management practices in use in the Australian life insurance indus...
The huge economic significance of longevity risk for corporations, governments and individuals is be...
The aim of the present volume is to analyse the genesis of modern life insurance by focusing on one ...