ANT is thus a systematic way of bringing out the practice of ‘network’ (Goguen, 1999), and Law and Callon’s approach
seems well suited to the features of international development projects with their often well-defined sense of
insiders and outsiders linked to an exchange relation of resources for deliverables. In line with ANT’s principles
and in contrast to many anthropological accounts, these actors are recognised as both human and non-human:
people, organisations, technological systems and documents were all actors in the Sri Lankan case networks