Calculating the Social: Standards and the Reconfiguration of Governing

Higgins, V.; Larner, W.

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2010-01-01

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349367948

DOI: 10.1057/9780230289673

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 227