{"product_id":"9780745336459-audit-culture","title":"Audit Culture","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHow Indicators and Rankings are Reshaping the World\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn anthropological account of how rankings, statistics and numbers are reshaping the world we live in\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCris 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.\u003cem\u003e Audit Culture\u003c\/em\u003e is the first book to systematically document and analyse these phenomena and their implications for democracy. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41513866690657,"sku":"9780745336459","price":16.61,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_33154783.jpg?v=1739442575","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780745336459-audit-culture","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}