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ISBN 10: 134936794X‎

ISBN 13: 978-1349367948 

Author: V. Higgins, W. Larner 

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.

Table of contents:

PART I: THE GLOBAL AND LOCAL POLITICS OF STANDARDIZING

• Calculating Hybrids

• Gendering Codes of Conduct: Chiquita Bananas and Nicaraguan Women Workers

• The Practice of Third Party Certification: Enhancing Environmental Sustainability and Social Justice in the Global South?

PART II: TECHNOLOGIES OF GOVERNING AND THE STANDARDIZING OF THE SOCIAL

• E-government and the Production of Standardized Individuality

• The Standardizing of Nursing Competencies

• Industry Analysts and the Labour of Comparison

• Sticking Plasters and the Standardizations of Everyday Life

PART III: THE CONTESTATION AND ADAPTATION OF STANDARDIZING PRACTICES

• Local Experiments with Global Certificates: How Russian Software Testers are Inventing Themselves as a Profession

• Adapting Standards: The Case of Environmental Management Systems in Australia

• Standards, Orphan Drugs, and Pharmaceutical Markets

PART IV: CONCLUSION

• From Standardization to Standardizing Work

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