The Social Life of Standards: Ethnographic Methods for Local Engagement

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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"

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