The Social Life of Standards: Ethnographic Methods for Local Engagement by Graham, Janice

The Social Life of Standards: Ethnographic Methods for Local Engagement (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780774865227)

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The Social Life of Standards: Ethnographic Methods for Local Engagement by Graham, Janice

The Social Life of Standards: Ethnographic Methods for Local Engagement

$35.95

The Social Life of Standards: Ethnographic Methods for Local Engagement

$35.95
Format: Paperback
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A look at how various tools for organizing society are developed and contested by the people in communities they would affect.

The Social Life of Standards reveals how political and technical tools for organizing society are developed, subverted, contested, and reassembled by local communities interacting with standards created by others. The authors investigate biomedical, agricultural, and other cases to show how inconsistent implementation of standards in the real world runs up against the non-negotiable criteria presupposed by external forces. To solve these problems, they propose a new, reflexive process that involves local engagement at every stage in the production and application of standards.


Author: Janice Graham
ISBN-10: 0774865229
ISBN-13: 9780774865227
Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
Language: English
Published: 10/21/2021
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.98h x 5.98w x 0.79d
By Janice Graham
By Janice Graham
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Janice Graham is a professor of medicine and social anthropology at Dalhousie University. Christina Holmes is assistant professor of interdisciplinary health at St. Francis Xavier University. Fiona McDonald is codirector of the Australian Centre for Health Law Research and associate professor of law at Queensland University of Technology. Regna Darnell is distinguished professor emerita of anthropology at Western University.

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