Browsing Books by Author "Mennicken, Andrea"

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The New Politics of Numbers

Mennicken, Andrea; Salais, Robert (Springer Nature, 2022)

Numbers do things. They highlight and obscure. They integrate and disaggregate. They mark and measure. They represent and intervene. They tame and inflame. They structure people’s interactions. They create new objects and ...
Quantification = Economization? Numbers, Ratings and Rankings in the Prison Service of England andWales

Guter-Sandu, Andrei; Mennicken, Andrea (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

This paper uses the case of prison privatization in England and Wales to scrutinize what it means to “economize the social” through numbers. It argues that we ought to be careful not to equate quantification with economization. ...

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Saili Sadil