A word used in so many different ways that Anderson and McFarlane (2011) Area 43, 2, 124 reflect that ‘there is no single “correct” way to deploy the term, nor does any one theoretical tradition or style hold an exclusive right to it’. The Oxford English Dictionary has ‘the contingent, non-necessary coming together of various phenomena, actors, institutions, or processes to form a temporarily stable bundle of relationships and capacities’. This seems to mean a chance or accidental assembly or collection of things; ‘of all sorts of social and material bits and pieces’ (D. Gregory et al.).