Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of abbreviations
- List of contributors
- 1 A world of indicators: The making of governmental knowledge through quantification
- 2 The flight of the indicator
- 3 Narrating numbers
- 4 By their own account: (Quantitative) Accountability, Numerical Reflexivity and the National Prosecuting Authority in South Africa
- 5 Failure by the numbers? Settlement statistics as indicators of state performance in South African land restitution
- 6 Doing the transparent state: Open government data as performance indicators
- 7 Charting the road to eradication: Health facility data and malaria indicator generation in rural Tanzania
- 8 ‘Nobody is going to die’: An ethnography of hope, indicators and improvizations in HIV treatment programmes in Uganda
- 9 Financial indicators and the global financial crash
- 10 New global visions of microfinance: The construction of markets from indicators
- 11 Spirits of neoliberalism: ‘Competitiveness’ and ‘wellbeing’ indicators as rival orders of worth
- 12 Climate change vulnerability indicators: from noise to signal
- 13 Retroaction: how indicators feed back onto quantified actors
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
- References
Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2015
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of abbreviations
- List of contributors
- 1 A world of indicators: The making of governmental knowledge through quantification
- 2 The flight of the indicator
- 3 Narrating numbers
- 4 By their own account: (Quantitative) Accountability, Numerical Reflexivity and the National Prosecuting Authority in South Africa
- 5 Failure by the numbers? Settlement statistics as indicators of state performance in South African land restitution
- 6 Doing the transparent state: Open government data as performance indicators
- 7 Charting the road to eradication: Health facility data and malaria indicator generation in rural Tanzania
- 8 ‘Nobody is going to die’: An ethnography of hope, indicators and improvizations in HIV treatment programmes in Uganda
- 9 Financial indicators and the global financial crash
- 10 New global visions of microfinance: The construction of markets from indicators
- 11 Spirits of neoliberalism: ‘Competitiveness’ and ‘wellbeing’ indicators as rival orders of worth
- 12 Climate change vulnerability indicators: from noise to signal
- 13 Retroaction: how indicators feed back onto quantified actors
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
- References
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- The World of IndicatorsThe Making of Governmental Knowledge through Quantification, pp. 360 - 365Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015
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