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Calculating the Social: Standards and the Reconfiguration of Governing
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Hardcover. Examining the increasingly powerful role of standards in the governing of economic, political and social life, this book draws upon governmentality and actor network theory to explore how standards and standardizing projects are articulated and rendered workable in practice, and the objects, subjects and forms of identity to which this gives rise. Editor(s): Higgins, Vaughan; Larner, Wendy. Num Pages: 239 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBC; JP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 218 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 398.
Examining the increasingly powerful role of standards in the governing of economic, political and social life, this book draws upon governmentality and actor network theory to explore how standards and standardizing projects are articulated and rendered workable in practice, and the objects, subjects and forms of identity to which this gives rise.
Examining the increasingly powerful role of standards in the governing of economic, political and social life, this book draws upon governmentality and actor network theory to explore how standards and standardizing projects are articulated and rendered workable in practice, and the objects, subjects and forms of identity to which this gives rise.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
227
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230579316
SKU
V9780230579316
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99-15
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CARMEN BAIN is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Iowa State University, USA CHRIS COCKLIN is Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation) at James Cook University, Queensland, Australia MITCHELL DEAN is Professor of Sociology and formerly Dean of the Division of Society, Culture, Media and Philosophy at Macquarie University, Australia JACQUI DIBDEN is a Senior Research ... Read more
Reviews for Calculating the Social: Standards and the Reconfiguration of Governing
'This excellent collection of essays gets beneath the surface of the 'world of standards' which we inhabit. At the point of their enactment and materialization in checklists, registers, accounting statements and questionnaires, standards are necessarily enmeshed in complex local webs of action and reaction. Each contribution shows how standards and the forms of calculation which they engender are always incomplete ... Read more