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Audit Culture

How Indicators and Rankings are Reshaping the World

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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All aspects of our work and private lives are increasingly measured and managed. But how has this 'audit culture' arisen and what kind of a world is it producing?Cris Shore and Susan Wright provide a timely account of the rise of the new industries of accounting, enumeration and ranking from an anthropological perspective, drawing on political economy, ethnographic observation and genealogical excavation. Audit Culture is the first book to systematically document and analyse these phenomena and their implications for democracy. The book explores how audit culture operates across a wide range of fields, including health, higher education, NGOs, finance, the automobile industry and the military. The authors build a powerful critique of contemporary public sector management in an age of neoliberal market-making, privatisation and outsourcing. They conclude by offering a raft of suggested actions to reverse its damaging effects on communities, reclaim professional autonomy, and restore the democratic accountability that audit culture is systematically undermining.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-02-20
Mått140 x 216 x 29 mm
Vikt258 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieAnthropology, Culture and Society
Antal sidor256
FörlagPluto Press
ISBN9780745336459

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Cris Shore is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London, and Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Central European University. One of his recent publications is The Shapeshifting Crown and he and Susan Wright are co-editors of the Anthropology of Policy book series for Stanford University Press.Susan Wright is Professor of Educational Anthropology at Aarhus University, Denmark. Her latest publication is Enacting the University. With Cris Shore, she is the co-editor of the Anthropology of Policy book series for Stanford University Press and Death of the Public University?.

List of FiguresAbbreviationsAcknowledgementsSeries PrefacePreface1. Introduction: Audit Culture and the New World (Dis)Order2. Rankings as Populist Project: Governing by Numbers and Hollowing out Democracy3. The Big Four Accountancy Firms and the Evolution of Contemporary Capitalism4. Global Governance through Standards, Seduction and Soft Power5. Metrics, Managerialism and Market Making: Unlocking Value in Healthcare6. Reforming Higher Education: The Kafkaesque Pursuit of ‘World Class’ Status7. The New Subjects of Audit: Performance Management and Quantified Selves8. Conclusion: Repurposing Audit – Restoring Trust, Accountability and DemocracyBibliographyIndex

'A new and compelling argument for why so many institutions continue to be spellbound by rankings and metrics - despite the cultural carnage they cause in schools, hospitals, universities, corporations and governmental agencies. How can we halt this 'death by audit' craze that has swept through modern society like a deadly virus? In this thought provoking book, the authors develop a radical agenda that will strike fear into number-loving technocrats around the world.'