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Calculating the Social : Standards and the Reconfiguration of Governing by Vaughan Higgins, Wendy Larner (eds.) is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
What is Calculating the Social : Standards and the Reconfiguration of Governing about?
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.
Who reads Calculating the Social : Standards and the Reconfiguration of Governing?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Vaughan Higgins, Wendy Larner (eds.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780230579316
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Anthropology, Business, Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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