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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Standards and Standardization as a Social Scientific Problem
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The Global and Local Politics of Standardizing
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Technologies of Governing and the Standardizing of the Social
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The Contestation and Adaptation of Standardizing Practices
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Conclusion
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About this book
Reviews
'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 yet powerful projects of social and economic organization'. - Professor Michael Power, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Editors and Affiliations
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Monash University, Australia
Vaughan Higgins
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University of Bristol, UK
Wendy Larner
About the editors
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Calculating the Social
Book Subtitle: Standards and the Reconfiguration of Governing
Editors: Vaughan Higgins, Wendy Larner
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230289673
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-57931-6Published: 29 September 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-36794-8Published: 01 January 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-28967-3Published: 29 September 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 227
Topics: Political Sociology, Sociology, general, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Methodology of the Social Sciences, Political Science