Distributed Agency

i. Contributors
ii. Preface


Part One: Agency as Flexible and Accountable Causality
Chapter 1. Elements of Agency
N.J. Enfield
Chapter 2. Distribution of Agency
N.J. Enfield
Chapter 3. Gnomic Agency
Paul Kockelman
Chapter 4. Semiotic Agents
Paul Kockelman

Part Two: Agency of Institutions and Infrastructure
Chapter 5. Agency in State Agencies
Anya Bernstein
6. Upending Infrastructure in Revolutionary Egypt
Julia Elyachar

Part Three: Language and Agency
7. On Brain-to-Brain Interfaces, Distributed Agency and Language
Mark Dingemanse
8. Requesting as a Means for Negotiating Distributed Agency
Simeon Floyd
9. Social Agency and Grammar
Giovanni Rossi and Joerg Zinken
10. Distributed Agency and Action under the Radar of Accountability
Jack Sidnell

Part Four: Economy and Agency
11. Distributed Agency and Debt in the Durational Ethics of Responsibility
Jane I. Guyer
12. Money as Token and Money as Record in Distributed Accounts
Bill Maurer

Part Five: Distributing Agency within Selves and Species

13. Distribution of Agency across Body and Self
Ruth Parry
14. Distributed Agency in Ants
Patrizia D'ettore

Part Six: Social Bonding through Embodied Agency
15. Group Exercise and Social Bonding
Emma Cohen
16. Social Bonding Through Dance and 'Musiking'
Bronwyn Tarr

Part Seven: Agency and Infancy
17. Time Scales for Understanding the Agency of Infants and Caregivers
Joanna Raczaszek-Leonardi

18. Movement Synchrony, Joint Actions and Collective Agency in Infancy
Bahar Tuncgenc


Part Eight: The Agency of Materiality
19. The Agency of the Dead
Zoe Crossland

20. Distributed Agency in Play
Benjamin Smith

21. Contingency and the Semiotic Mediation of Distributed Agency
Eitan Wilf

Part Nine: The Place of Agency
22. Place and Extended Agency
Paul C. Adams

23. How Agency is Distributed through Installations
Saadi Lahlou

Part Ten: From Cooperation to Deception and Disruption
Chapter 24. Cooperation and Social Obligations
David P. Schweikard

Chapter 25. Deception as Exploitative Social Agency
Radu Umbres

Chapter 26. Disrupting Agents, Distributing Agency
Charles H. P. Zuckerman