World of Indicators (eBook, ePUB)

The Making of Governmental Knowledge through Quantification
Redaktion: Rottenburg, Richard

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The twenty-first century has seen a further dramatic increase in the use of quantitative knowledge for governing social life after its explosion in the 1980s. Indicators and rankings play an increasing role in the way governmental and non-governmental organizations distribute attention, make decisions, and allocate scarce resources. Quantitative knowledge promises to be more objective and straightforward as well as more transparent and open for public debate than qualitative knowledge, thus producing more democratic decision-making. However, we know little about the social processes through which this knowledge is constituted nor its effects. Understanding how such numeric knowledge is produced and used is increasingly important as proliferating technologies of quantification alter modes of knowing in subtle and often unrecognized ways. This book explores the implications of the global multiplication of indicators as a specific technology of numeric knowledge production used in governance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316393833
• Artikelnr.: 53013590

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: a world of indicators: the making of governmental
knowledge through quantification Richard Rottenburg and Sally Engle Merry;
2. The flight of the indicator Theodore M. Porter; 3. Narrating numbers
Wendy Espeland; 4. By their own account: (quantitative) accountability,
numerical reflexivity and the National Prosecuting Authority in South
Africa Johanna Mugler; 5. Failure by the numbers? Settlement statistics as
indicators of state performance in South African land restitution Olaf
Zenker; 6. Doing the transparent state: open government data as performance
indicators Evelyn Ruppert; 7. Charting the road to eradication: health
facility data and malaria indicator generation in rural Tanzania Rene
Gerrets; 8. 'Nobody is going to die': an ethnography of hope, indicators,
and improvisations in the provision of access to treatment in Uganda
Sung-Joon Park; 9. The role of indicators in the global financial crisis
Andrew Farlow; 10. New global vision of microfinance: the construction of
markets from indicators Barbara Grimpe; 11. Spirits of neoliberalism:
'competitiveness' and 'wellbeing' indicators as rival orders of worth
William Davies; 12. Climate change vulnerability indicators - from noise to
signal Till Sterzel, Boris Orlowsky, Hannah Förster, Anja Weber and Dennis
Eucker; 13. Retroaction: how indicators feed back onto quantified actors
Alain Desrosieres.