Cris Shore, Susan Wright

Audit Culture

How Indicators and Rankings are Reshaping the World

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An anthropological account of how rankings, statistics and numbers are reshaping the world we live in

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Produktdetails

• Anthropology, Culture and Society
• Verlag: Pluto Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 212mm x 137mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 258g
• ISBN-13: 9780745336459
• ISBN-10: 0745336450
• Artikelnr.: 67733767

Autorenporträt

Cris Shore is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Central European University. One of his recent publications is The Shapeshifting Crown and he and Susan Wright are co-editors of the Anthropology of Policy book series for Stanford University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Series Preface
Preface
1. Introduction: Audit Culture and the New World (Dis)Order
2. Rankings as Populist Project: Governing by Numbers and Hollowing out
Democracy
3. The Big Four Accountancy Firms and the Evolution of Contemporary
Capitalism
4. Global Governance through Standards, Seduction and Soft Power
5. Metrics, Managerialism and Market Making: Unlocking Value in Healthcare
6. Reforming Higher Education: The Kafkaesque Pursuit of 'World Class'
Status
7. The New Subjects of Audit: Performance Management and Quantified Selves
8. Conclusion: Repurposing Audit - Restoring Trust, Accountability and
Democracy
Bibliography
Index