The world of indicators : the making of governmental knowledge through quantification / edited by Richard Rottenburg, Sally E. Merry, Sung-Joon Park and Johanna Mugler.
Includes index. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Retroaction : how indicators feed back onto quantified actors / Alain Desrosières (1940-2013). The flight of the indicator / Theodore M. Porter -- Narrating numbers / Wendy Espeland -- By their own account : (quantitative) accountability, numerical reflexivity and the National Prosecuting Authority in South Africa / Johanna Mugler -- Failure by the numbers? Settlement statistics as indicators of state performance in South African land restitution / Olaf Zenker -- Doing the transparent state : open government data as performance indicators / Evelyn Ruppert -- Charting the road to eradication : health facility data and malaria indicator generation in rural Tanzania / Rene Gerrets -- 'Nobody is going to die' : an ethnography of hope, indicators and improvizations in HIV treatment programmes in Uganda / Sung-Joon Park -- Financial indicators and the global financial crash / Andrew Farlow -- New global visions of microfinance : the construction of markets from indicators / Barbara Grimpe -- Spirits of neoliberalism : 'competitiveness' and wellbeing' indicators as rival orders of worth / William Davies -- Climate change vulnerability indicators : from noise to signal / Till Sterzel, Boris Orlowsky, Hannah Förster, Anja Weber and Dennis Eucker -- Retroaction : how indicators feed back onto quantified actors / Alain Desrosières (1940-2013).
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