基本説明
Draws upon governmentality and actor network theory to explore how standards and standardizing projects are articulated.
Full Description
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.
Contents
Standards and Standardization as a Social Science Problem; V.Higgins & W.Larner PART I THE GLOBAL AND LOCAL POLITICS OF STANDARDIZING Calculating Hybrids; P.Miller, L.Kurunmäki & T.O'Leary Gendering Codes of Conduct: Chiquita Bananas and Nicaraguan Women Workers; M.Prieto-Carrón & W.Larner The Practice of Third Party Certification: Enhancing Environmental Sustainability and Social Justice in the Global South?; C.Bain & M.Hatanaka PART II TECHNOLOGIES OF GOVERNING AND THE STANDARDIZING OF THE SOCIAL 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 PART III THE CONTESTATION AND ADAPTATION OF STANDARDIZING PRACTICES 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 PART IV CONCLUSION From Standardization to Standardizing Work; V.Higgins & W.Larner
