The Social Lives of Numbers - Statistics, Reform and the Remaking of Rural Life in Turkey (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)

This book examines the changing role of statistics in institutional reform in Turkey, and the unanticipated ways in which such changes transform livelihoods as well. Turkish agriculture is undergoing its most profound transformation since the establishment of the Republic in the 1920s. Seemingly minor technical adjustments in farmers' reporting requirements and practices to collect better data on agriculture for statistics are also having a rapid and massive effect on farmers' practices and livelihoods. The attempt to understand agriculture in Turkey in new ways is changing agriculture itself. The relationship between statistics and social and natural phenomena is thus performative, and such performativity undergirds a great deal of socio-technical change in the world. Drawing on fieldwork in Turkey with statisticians, farmers and agricultural extension technicians, the book shows how alongside deliberation about reforms, it is in and through this performativity that much of the work of institutional commensuration actually happens.

General

Imprint:	Springer Verlag, Singapore
Country of origin:	Singapore
Release date:	December 2020
First published:	2020
Authors:	Brian Silverstein
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	121
Edition:	1st ed. 2020
ISBN-13:	978-981-15-9195-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Promotions
LSN:	981-15-9195-4
Barcode:	9789811591952

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