The world of indicators : the making of governmental knowledge through quantification, edited by Richard Rottenburg, Sally E. Merry, Sung-Joon Park and Johanna Mugler

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The world of indicators : the making of governmental knowledge through quantification, edited by Richard Rottenburg, Sally E. Merry, Sung-Joon Park and Johanna Mugler

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the making of governmental knowledge through quantification

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edited by Richard Rottenburg, Sally E. Merry, Sung-Joon Park and Johanna Mugler

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• The world of indicators : the making of governmental knowledge through quantification

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• Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2015

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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 <U+0127> � 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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24 cm.

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xvi, 359 pages

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9781107086227

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