Mundane governance : ontology and accountability / Steve Woolgar and Daniel Neyland.

• Machine generated contents note: 1. Mundane Governance: A Profound Question of Political Philosophy? -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Narratives of Mundane Governance -- 1.2.1. The Omnipresence of the Mundane -- 1.2.2. The Significance of the Mundane -- 1.2.3. The Morality of the Mundane -- 1.2.4. Irony, Incongruity, and the Exoticism of the Ordinary -- 1.2.5. Ironies of Mundane Governance as Social--Political Analysis -- 1.2.6. Schadenfreude about Failures of Mundane Governance -- 1.3. Some Initial Analytic Themes -- 1.4. Principles for Researching the Mundane -- 1.5. Structure of our Argument -- 2. The Wrong Bin Bag: The Situated Ontology of Mundane Governance -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Governance and Accountability -- 2.2.1. Corporate Governance -- 2.2.2. Neo-Foucauldian Approaches to Governance -- 2.2.3. Accountability -- 2.2.4. The Effects of Governance and Accountability -- 2.3. The Ontological Dynamics of Governance and Accountability --. 
• Contents note continued: 2.3.1. Objects and Technology in Science and Technology Studies -- 2.3.2. Enrolling Latour to Recursive Ontology -- 2.4. The Wrong Bin Bag -- 2.5. Conclusion -- 3. Classification as Governance: Typologies of Waste -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Governance through Classification and Accountability -- 3.3. A Background to Waste Management -- 3.4. Waste Management in Action -- 3.4.1. The Local Waste Management Centre -- 3.4.2. Kerbside Recycling -- 3.5. Analysis: Governance, Accountability, and Classification -- 3.6. Conclusion -- 4. Why Govern?---Is, Ought, and Actionability in Mundane Governance -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Evidence, Is and Ought -- 4.3. Constituting Evidence as Is, Ought, and Actionable -- 4.4. Evidence in Action -- 4.5. Actionable Evidence -- 4.5.1. Morally Actionable Evidence -- 4.5.2. Evidence in Action? -- 4.5.3. A New Guillotine? -- 4.6. Conclusion -- 5. Structures of Governance -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Constituting the Speeding Driver --. 
• Contents note continued: 5.3. Constituting Structures of Governance -- 5.3.1. Invoking a Standard Governance Structure -- 5.3.2. Invoking Non-Standard Structures of Governance -- 5.3.3. Setting Camera Speed Limits -- 5.3.4. Installing Cameras -- 5.4. Reconstituting Structures of Governance through Communication -- 5.5. Conclusion -- 6. Compliance: Does Mundane Governance Work? -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Compliance in Theory -- 6.3. Managing Compliance in Practice -- 6.3.1. Three Varieties of Compliance -- 6.3.2. Consistency of Compliance -- 6.4. Re-educating the Speeding Driver -- 6.5. Conclusion -- 7. Spaces of Governance -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. Governance and Space -- 7.3. A London Airport -- 7.3.1. Architecture -- 7.3.2. Wayfinding Technologies -- 7.3.3. Radio-Frequency Identification and Biometrics -- 7.4. Airport Passengers -- 7.4.1. Airport Managers' Accounts of Passengers -- 7.4.2. Passengers' Accounts -- 7.4.3. Passenger Ethnographies -- A. Joining Queues -- B. Electronic Check-In --. 
• Contents note continued: C. Making Routine Mistakes -- D. Objects and their People -- E. Shopping First, then Flying -- F. Boarding the Plane -- G. Travelling Elite -- 7.5. Conclusion -- 8. Mundane Terror -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. Ontology and Security -- 8.3. Objects and their Passengers -- 8.4. Letter Bombs -- 8.5. Biometric Identity Cards -- 8.6. Analysis -- 8.7. Conclusion -- 9. Disruption -- 9.1. Introduction -- 9.2. Disruptions and Breaches -- 9.3. The Water Bottle -- 9.4. Traffic Lights Failure -- 9.5. Parking is Such Sweet Sorrow -- 9.6. Speeding Database -- 9.7. Analysis -- 9.8. Conclusion -- 10. Conclusions -- 10.1. Introduction -- 10.2. Revisiting Narratives of Mundane Governance -- 10.3. Partial Takes and Coherent Accounts -- 10.4. Outstanding Issues -- 10.5. Futures of Mundane Governance.

• What is to be made of the outcry when newly issued recycling "wheelie" bins are discovered to contain microchips for weighing and evaluating householders' rubbish? The angry accusations that speed cameras are generating excessive income for the government? The consternation at the measures taken by airports to heighten security in the wake of the increased threat of terrorist attacks? These increasingly widespread reactions to ordinary events and everyday phenomenashare a common theme. They all embody concerns about the ways in which our lives are increasingly regulated and controlled in relation to ordinary objects and technologies.This book takes these concerns as the starting point for exploring the ways in which relations of governance and accountability in contemporary life are organized around ordinary, everyday, pervasive objects and technologies. In contrast to the contemporary literature on governance, the book argues for the importance of examining how accountability relations are enacted on the ground, in relation to mundane objects and technologies. In particular, it is crucial to understand how governance andaccountability are mediated through material relations involving ordinary everyday objects and technologies.The book argues that the key to understanding governance is to focus on political constitution at the level of ontology rather than just on the traditional politics of organization, structure, and human compliance. The term ontology is used here to draw attention to the social and cultural processes whereby the nature and existence of ordinary things come to matter. The argument is developed in relation to a wide variety of empirical materials drawn from three main areas of everyday life: wastemanagement and recycling; the regulation and control of traffic (especially speed cameras and parking); and security and passenger movement in airports. 

Ämnesord

Social kontroll  (sao)

Ansvarsskyldighet  (sao)

Corporate governance.  (LCSH)

Responsibility.  (LCSH)

Teknik  -- politiska aspekter (sao)

Ontologi  -- politiska aspekter (sao)

Social control  (LCSH)

Government accountability  (LCSH)

Klassifikation

HD2741 (LCC)

338.6 (DDC)

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