Enactment

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Enactment

• Social Science as a joke or a danger (Law Urry,
  2004)
• The ideas/methods we use have effects
• Multiple perspectives
• The ideas/methods we use can enact worlds
• Constitutive rather than descriptive
• Economics National Economy, markets
• International RelationsNational Security
• Geopolitics Heartland

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Enacting Biological Economies

• Realities are relationally constituted
• Method Following actors, histories of the
  present, methodological scepticism
• Politics Geographers as deliberate actors,
  Engagement beyond the state, Contests over
  calculative instruments
• Supply Chains vis-a-vis Relational webs