Calculating the Social [electronic resource] : Standards and the Reconfiguration of Governing /
Higgins, V.editor.
Larner, W.editor.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1. The global and local politics of standardizing -- pt. 2. Technologies of governing and the standardizing of the social -- pt. 3. The contestation and adaptation of standardizing practices -- pt. 4. Conclusion.
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.
Political sociology.
Sociology.
Anthropology.
Ethnology.
Social sciences.
Political science.
Political Sociology.
Sociology, general.
Anthropology.
Cultural Anthropology.
Methodology of the Social Sciences.
Political Science.