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Calculating the Social

Standards and the Reconfiguration of Governing

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  • © 2010

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Editors:
  1. Vaughan Higgins

    1. Monash University, Australia

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  2. Wendy Larner

    1. University of Bristol, UK

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Standards and Standardization as a Social Scientific Problem

    1. Standards and Standardization as a Social Scientific Problem

      • Vaughan Higgins, Wendy Larner
      Pages 1-17

  3. The Global and Local Politics of Standardizing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
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    2. Calculating Hybrids

      • Peter Miller, Liisa Kurunmäki, Ted O’Leary
      Pages 21-37

    3. Gendering Codes of Conduct: Chiquita Bananas and Nicaraguan Women Workers

      • Marina Prieto-Carrón, Wendy Larner
      Pages 38-55

    4. The Practice of Third-Party Certification: Enhancing Environmental Sustainability and Social Justice in the Global South?

      • Carmen Bain, Maki Hatanaka
      Pages 56-74

  4. Technologies of Governing and the Standardizing of the Social

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75
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    2. E-Government and the Production of Standardized Individuality

      • Paul Henman, Mitchell Dean
      Pages 77-93

    3. New Modes of Governance and the Standardization of Nursing Competencies: An Australian Case Study

      • Anni Dugdale, Laurie Grealish
      Pages 94-111

    4. Industry Analysts and the Labour of Comparison

      • Neil Pollock
      Pages 112-130

    5. Sticking Plasters and the Standardizations of Everyday Life

      • Mike Michael
      Pages 131-148

  5. The Contestation and Adaptation of Standardizing Practices

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149
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    2. Local Experiments with Global Certificates: How Russian Software Testers are Inventing Themselves as a Profession

      • Melanie Feakins
      Pages 151-166

    3. Adapting Standards: The Case of Environmental Management Systems in Australia

      • Vaughan Higgins, Jacqui Dibden, Chris Cocklin
      Pages 167-184

    4. Standards, Orphan Drugs, and Pharmaceutical Markets

      • Carlos Novas
      Pages 185-202

  6. Conclusion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 203-203
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    2. From Standardization to Standardizing Work

      • Vaughan Higgins, Wendy Larner
      Pages 205-218

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 219-227
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About this book

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.

Reviews

'This excellent collection of essays gets beneath the surface of the 'world of standards' which we inhabit. At the point of their enactment and materialization in checklists, registers, accounting statements and questionnaires, standards are necessarily enmeshed in complex local webs of action and reaction. Each contribution shows how standards and the forms of calculation which they engender are always incomplete yet powerful projects of social and economic organization'. - Professor Michael Power, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

Editors and Affiliations

  • Monash University, Australia

    Vaughan Higgins

  • University of Bristol, UK

    Wendy Larner

About the editors

CARMEN BAIN is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Iowa State University, USA CHRIS COCKLIN is Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation) at James Cook University, Queensland, Australia MITCHELL DEAN is Professor of Sociology and formerly Dean of the Division of Society, Culture, Media and Philosophy at Macquarie University, Australia JACQUI DIBDEN is a Senior Research Fellow with the Monash Regional Australia Project, School of Geography and Environmental Science, Monash University, Australia ANNI DUGDALE is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Canberra, Australia MELANIE FEAKINS is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley, USA LAURIE GREALISH is Associate Professor in nursing at the University of Canberra, Australia MAKI HATANAKA is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, Social Work and Anthropology at Utah State University, USA PAUL HENMAN is a Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Queensland, Australia LIISA KURUNMÄKI is a Reader in Accounting, and a Research Associate of the ESRC Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR) at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK MIKE MICHAEL is Professor of Sociology of Science and Technology, and Director of the Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process, at the Sociology Department, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK PETER MILLER is Professor of Management Accounting at the London School ofEconomics and Political Science, and Deputy Director of the Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation, UK CARLOS NOVAS is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University, Canada TED O'LEARY is a Professor of Accounting at the University of Manchester, and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), USA NEIL POLLOCK is a Reader at the University of Edinburgh where he teaches and researches on the sociology of information technologies, UK MARINA PRIETO-CARRON is Lecturer in Geography at the University of Portsmouth, UK

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