2015
DOI: 10.1111/1469-8676.12098
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Governing by numbers: audit culture, rankings and the new world order

Abstract: Governing by numbers: audit culture, rankings and the new world order Quantification and statistics have long served as instruments of governance and state power. However, in recent decades new systems of measurement and rankings have emerged that operate both beyond and below the nation-state.Using contemporary examples, we explore how international measurements, rankings, risk management and audit are creating new forms of global governmentality. We ask, whoor whatis driving the spread of audit technologies … Show more

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“…This is especially true of the neoliberal University that many ethnographers work in, and in which OSH (we hold) is symptomatic of the rise of Òaudit culturesÓ and associated technobureaucratic manifestation of new forms of governance and power (cf. Shore and Wright, 2000, p. 57) There is however a growing questioning of the dominance of such anticipatory modes of engaging with uncertainty, and the neoliberal institutional forms they are associated with (Shore and Wright, 2015). As our autoethnographic analysis shows, personal and less explicit ways of knowing (including ÒfeelingÓ and ÒsensingÓ safety through contingent and sometimes improvisory embodied, affective, and sensory engagements) are fundamental for researcher (and other workersÕ) safety.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 96%
“…This is especially true of the neoliberal University that many ethnographers work in, and in which OSH (we hold) is symptomatic of the rise of Òaudit culturesÓ and associated technobureaucratic manifestation of new forms of governance and power (cf. Shore and Wright, 2000, p. 57) There is however a growing questioning of the dominance of such anticipatory modes of engaging with uncertainty, and the neoliberal institutional forms they are associated with (Shore and Wright, 2015). As our autoethnographic analysis shows, personal and less explicit ways of knowing (including ÒfeelingÓ and ÒsensingÓ safety through contingent and sometimes improvisory embodied, affective, and sensory engagements) are fundamental for researcher (and other workersÕ) safety.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 96%
“…Conforme con estudios realizados en otros ámbitos, puede afirmarse que el proceso de (aparente) despolitización y tecnificación aquí descrito refleja una dinámica más amplia y típica de la "racionalidad política neoliberal" (Rose 1999;Brown 2006) que caracteriza las políticas públicas contemporáneas -para dar cuenta de esta contradictoriedad, Bourdieu habla sagazmente de "políticas de despolitización" (2001)-. En particular, dicha tendencia es detectable en aquellos espacios políticos que se implementan mediante marcos de "políticas blandas", "gobernanza multinivel", new public management y otras prácticas de "gobierno reflexivo" (véanse Walters y Haahr 2005;Jaeger 2007;Dean 2010;Davies 2011;Shore 2011;Shore y Wright 2015). Lo que aporta específicamente el estudio de estos procesos, en el contexto de las políticas de integración de inmigrantes, tal vez sea una "tensión" particularmente interesante desde el punto de vista analítico: esto se debe a que las temáticas relevantes para este campo, al remitir a cuestiones como la identidad, la pertenencia o la ciudadanía, se encuentran imbricadas en y atravesadas por importantes mecanismos de inclusión, exclusión e inclusión diferencial.…”
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“…Para além do setor corporativo, Shore e Wright (2015) demonstram, por exemplo, como as big 4 companies de auditoria -Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst and Young e KPMG -cresceram às custas das mudanças nas formas de governança, favorecidas pelas novas regras e requerimentos para todas as empresas, as quais passaram a ser "verificadas" pelas firmas de auditoria. "Como elas ajudaram governos a expandir a noção de auditoria, seu portfólio de atividades -e fluxo de caixa -aumentou" (Shore;Wright, 2015, p. 25). Aumentou a tal ponto que reconfigurou o próprio mercado para serviços de auditoria (Johnson;Lys, 1990).…”
Section: Mercados Alimentares Governados Por Normas E Padrõesunclassified