{"product_id":"the-social-life-of-standards-ethnographic-methods-for-local-engagement-9780774865227","title":"The Social Life of Standards: Ethnographic Methods for Local Engagement","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Janice Graham | Christina Holmes | Fiona McDonald\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of British Columbia Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of British Columbia Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Anthropology - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA look at how various tools for organizing society are developed and contested by the people in communities they would affect.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Social Life of Standards\u003c\/i\u003e reveals how political and technical tools for organizing society are developed, subverted, contested, and reassembled by local communities interacting with standards created by others. The authors investigate biomedical, agricultural, and other cases to show how inconsistent implementation of standards in the real world runs up against the non-negotiable criteria presupposed by external forces. To solve these problems, they propose a new, reflexive process that involves local engagement at every stage in the production and application of standards. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of British Columbia Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47888920314007,"sku":"9780774865227","price":4223.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780774865227.webp?v=1781169467","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-social-life-of-standards-ethnographic-methods-for-local-engagement-9780774865227","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}