Mundane governance : ontology and accountability /
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? These increasingly widesprea...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, New York :
Oxford University Press,
2014.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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? These increasingly widespread reactions to ordinary events and everyday phenomena share a common theme. 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (305 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191505294 0191505293 9780191762994 0191762997 1306300223 9781306300223 |