Calculating the Social Standards and the Reconfiguration of Governing
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, subject...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London
Palgrave Macmillan UK
2010, 2010
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | XII, 227 p online resource |
| ISBN: | 9780230289673 |