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The World of Indicators: The Making of Governmental Knowledge Through Quantification

The World of Indicators: The Making of Governmental Knowledge Through Quantification

Author: Richard Rottenburg; Sally Engle Merry; Sung-Joon Park; Johanna; Mugler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781107086227

Published In: September 2015
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only
Paperback Edition ISBN: 9781107450837

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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.

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.

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