Calculating the Social: Standards and the Reconfiguration of Governing

V. Higgins (Editor) and W. Larner (Editor)

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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.
  • ISBN13 9780230579316
  • Publish Date 29 September 2010 (first published 1 January 2010)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 227
  • Language English