Audit Cultures: Anthropological Studies in Accountability, Ethics and the Academy (European Association of Social Anthropologists)

by Marilyn Strathern

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Do audit cultures deliver greater responsibility, or do they stifle creative thought?
We are all increasingly subjected to auditing, and alongside that, subject to accountability for our behaviour and actions. Audit cultures pervade in the workplace, our governmental and public institutions as well as academia. However, audit practices themselves have consequences, beneficial and detrimental, that often go unexamined.
This book examines how pervasive practices of accountability are, the political and cultural conditions under which accountability flourishes and the consequences of their application. Twelve social anthropologists look at this influential and controversial phenomenon, and map out the effects around Europe...Read more
  • ISBN10 0415233275
  • ISBN13 9780415233279
  • Publish Date 13 July 2000 (first published 1 January 2000)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Imprint Routledge
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 324
  • Language English