Organizing rocks: Actor-network theory and space

In an ethnography of the organizing of an underground mine, this article critically engages with actor-network theory's theorizing of space, particularly the risk of drifting into spatial pluralism. Inspired by Annemarie Mol'sThe Body Multiple, a space multiple approach is enrolled in which seemingly disparate enactments of the mining operations are understood in terms of coexistenceanddifference, inclusionandexclusion. Such an account attempts to cast aside a kind of neatness that jeopardizes the empirical openness that makes actor-network theory so fruitful to work with in organization studies dealing with spatial complexity.