The World of Indicators: The Making of Governmental Knowledge through Quantification (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society) - Softcover

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Rottenburg, Richard

 
9781107450837: The World of Indicators: The Making of Governmental Knowledge through Quantification (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society)
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2015

Synopsis

Explores the proliferation of indicators and the resulting transformations in entanglements between social science, markets and politics in public life.

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About the Authors

Richard Rottenburg holds a Chair in Anthropology at Martin Luther University of Halle, Wittenberg, Germany. His research focuses on the anthropology of law, organization, science and technology (LOST).

Sally Engle Merry is Silver Professor of Anthropology at New York University and a faculty director of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at the New York University School of Law.

Sung-Joon Park is a lecturer at the Institute for Anthropology of the University of Leipzig.

Johanna Mugler is a lecturer at the Institute for Social Anthropology at the University of Bern.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2015
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1107450837
ISBN 13 
9781107450837
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
382

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