##  [Agency-Centred Approaches](/agency-centred-approaches) 

  ##  [Agency-Centred Approaches](https://humanitites.quantumdictionary.io/agency-centred-approaches-0) 

  

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**Humanities & Arts Dictionary**

 







 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

Definition

Theoretical frameworks that foreground individual and collective agents—their intentions, strategies, practices and negotiations—as proximate drivers shaping social practices and material outcomes, while also treating agents as constrained by social structures, material affordances and historical context.