Following Actors: Enrolling the Vocabulary of Actor Network Theory to Talk about Internet Banking in a Remote Indigenous Town

Actor Network Theorist, Bruno Latour, advises Actor Network Theory (ANT) practitioners in the pursuit of ‘new, unexpected actors’, to travel slowly and take unfrequented roads. In this article, this advice is taken seriously in Ramingining, a remote Indigenous town in northern Australia. It follows a family endeavouring to get access to money in their bank accounts and in so doing allows a mutual and enlightening interrogation between both Ramingining and ANT.