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Mundane Governance - Ontology and Accountability (Hardcover)
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Mundane Governance - Ontology and Accountability (Hardcover)
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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 phenomena share 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 and accountability 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:
waste management and recycling; the regulation and control of
traffic (especially speed cameras and parking); and security and
passenger movement in airports.
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