Third Party Certifiers

Download or read book Calculating the Social written by V. Higgins and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-09-29 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the increasingly powerful role of standards in the governing of economic, political and social life, this book draws upon governmentality and actor network theory to explore how standards and standardizing projects are articulated and rendered workable in practice, and the objects, subjects and forms of identity to which this gives rise.