Arising from the need to go beyond the semiotic, cognitive, epistemic
and symbolic reading of diagrams, this book looks at what diagrams are
capable of in scholarly work related to the social sciences. Rather than
attempting to define what diagrams are, and what their dietic capacity
might be, contributions to this volume draw together the work diagrams
do in the development of theories. Across a range of disciplines, the
chapters introduce the ephemeral dimensions of scientist's interactions
and collaboration with diagrams, consider how diagrams configure
cooperation across disciplines, and explore how diagrams have been made
to work in ways that point beyond simplification, clarification and
formalization.