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Calculating the social = standards and the reconfiguration of governing /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Calculating the social/ edited by Vaughan Higgins and Wendy Larner.
Reminder of title:	standards and the reconfiguration of governing /
other author:	Higgins, Vaughan,
Published:	Basingstoke, Hampshire ;Palgrave Macmillan, : 2010.,
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 227 p.)
Subject:	Standardization. -
Online resource:	An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information
ISBN:	9780230289673 (electronic bk.)

Calculating the social = standards and the reconfiguration of governing /
Calculating the socialstandards and the reconfiguration of governing /[electronic resource] :edited by Vaughan Higgins and Wendy Larner. - Basingstoke, Hampshire ;Palgrave Macmillan,2010. - 1 online resource (xii, 227 p.)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Standards and Standardization as a Social Science Problem / V. Higgins & W. Larner -- Calculating Hybrids / P. Miller, L. Kurunmaki & T.O'Leary -- Gendering Codes of Conduct: Chiquita Bananas and Nicaraguan Women Workers / M. Prieto-Carron & W. Larner -- The Practice of Third Party Certification: Enhancing Environmental Sustainability and Social Justice in the Global South? / C. Bain & M. Hatanaka -- E-government and the Production of Standardized Individuality / P. Henman & M. Dean -- The Standardizing of Nursing Competencies / A. Dugdale & L. Grealish -- Industry Analysts and the Labour of Comparison / N. Pollock -- Sticking Plasters and the Standardizations of Everyday Life / M. Michael -- Local Experiments with Global Certificates: How Russian Software Testers are Inventing Themselves as a Profession / M. Feakins -- Adapting Standards: The Case of Environmental Management Systems in Australia / V. Higgins, J. Dibden & C. Cocklin -- Standards, Orphan Drugs, and Pharmaceutical Markets / C. Novas -- From Standardization to Standardizing Work / V. Higgins & W. Larner.

Standards are an increasingly powerful mechanism for the governing of economic, political and social life. Yet there has been little sustained attention by social scientists to how standards and standardizing projects are articulated and rendered workable in practice. This innovative book is the first of its kind to examine the dynamics of standardization work, and the objects, subjects and forms of governing to which this gives rise. Drawing upon post-realist approaches of governmentality and actor network theory, contributors provide detailed case studies which highlight how standards configure, and are configured through, local practices; the complexity of standardizing processes which contribute to harmonization at the same time as creating distinction and difference; and, the new forms of identity, subjectivity and social organization that emerge through standardizing work.

ISBN: 9780230289673 (electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 9786612997433

Source: 347966Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.com

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 015561941UkSubjects--Topical Terms:

934670
Standardization.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HD62 / .C25 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 389/.6

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