The Social Life of Standards: Ethnographic Methods for Local Engagement

by Janice Graham

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774865229
• ISBN13: 9780774865227
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"