Mundane governance : ontology and accountability / Steve Woolgar and Daniel Neyland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Woolgar, Steve, author.

Neyland, Daniel, 1973- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Technology--Political aspects.

Technology.

Ontology--Political aspects.

Ontology.

Social control.

Material culture--Political aspects.

Material culture.

Responsibility.

Corporate governance.

Government accountability.

Physical Description:

xi, 282 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford Oxford University Press, 2013.

Contents:

1 Mundane Governance: A Profound Question of Political Philosophy? 1

1.1 Introduction 1

1.2 Narratives of Mundane Governance 3

1.2.1 The Omnipresence of the Mundane 3

1.2.2 The Significance of the Mundane 4

1.2.3 The Morality of the Mundane 5

1.2.4 Irony, Incongruity, and the Exoticism of the Ordinary 6

1.2.5 Ironies of Mundane Governance as Social-Political Analysis 7

1.2.6 Schadenfreude about Failures of Mundane Governance 10

1.3 Some Initial Analytic Themes 12

1.4 Principles for Researching the Mundane 14

1.5 Structure of our Argument 19

2 The Wrong Bin Bag: The Situated Ontology of Mundane Governance 21

2.1 Introduction 21

2.2 Governance and Accountability 22

2.2.1 Corporate Governance 22

2.2.2 Neo-Foucauldian Approaches to Governance 25

2.2.3 Accountability 30

2.2.4 The Effects of Governance and Accountability 35

2.3 The Ontological Dynamics of Governance and Accountability 37

2.3.1 Objects and Technology in Science and Technology Studies 38

2.3.2 Enrolling Latour to Recursive Ontology 40

2.4 The Wrong Bin Bag 46

2.5 Conclusion 53

3 Classification as Governance: Typologies of Waste 55

3.1 Introduction 55

3.2 Governance through Classification and Accountability 56

3.3 A Background to Waste Management 58

3.4 Waste Management in Action 64

3.4.1 The Local Waste Management Centre 65

3.4.2 Kerbside Recycling 69

3.5 Analysis: Governance, Accountability, and Classification 74

3.6 Conclusion 77

4 Why Govern?-Is, Ought, and Actionability in Mundane Governance 79

4.1 Introduction 79

4.2 Evidence, Is and Ought 80

4.3 Constituting Evidence as 'Is', 'Ought', and Actionable 86

4.4 Evidence in Action 92

4.5 Actionable Evidence 98

4.5.1 Morally Actionable Evidence 99

4.5.2 Evidence in Action? 101

4.5.3 A New Guillotine? 102

4.6 Conclusion 104

5 Structures of Governance 107

5.1 Introduction 107

5.2 Constituting the Speeding Driver 110

5.3 Constituting Structures of Governance 114

5.3.1 Invoking a Standard Governance Structure 115

5.3.2 Invoking Non-Standard Structures of Governance 119

5.3.3 Setting Camera Speed Limits 123

5.3.4 Installing Cameras 125

5.4 Reconstituting Structures of Governance through Communication 128

5.5 Conclusion 132

6 Compliance: Does Mundane Governance Work? 135

6.1 Introduction 135

6.2 Compliance in Theory 137

6.3 Managing Compliance in Practice 141

6.3.1 Three Varieties of Compliance 141

6.3.2 Consistency of Compliance 147

6.4 Re-educating the Speeding Driver 153

6.5 Conclusion 163

7 Spaces of Governance 166

7.1 Introduction 166

7.2 Governance and Space 167

7.3 A London Airport 172

7.3.1 Architecture 173

7.3.2 Wayfinding Technologies 175

7.3.3 Radio-Frequency Identification and Biometrics 177

7.4 Airport Passengers 179

7.4.1 Airport Managers' Accounts of Passengers 179

7.4.2 Passengers' Accounts 180

7.4.3 Passenger Ethnographies 182

A Joining Queues 182

B Electronic Check-In 183

C Making Routine Mistakes 185

D Objects and their People 186

E Shopping First, then Flying 187

F Boarding the Plane 188

G Travelling Elite 189

7.5 Conclusion 191

8 Mundane Terror 194

8.1 Introduction 194

8.2 Ontology and Security 195

8.3 Objects and their Passengers 196

8.4 Letter Bombs 200

8.5 Biometric Identity Cards 207

8.6 Analysis 215

8.7 Conclusion 218

9 Disruption 220

9.1 Introduction 220

9.2 Disruptions and Breaches 222

9.3 The Water Bottle 223

9.4 Traffic Lights Failure 226

9.5 Parking is Such Sweet Sorrow 230

9.6 Speeding Database 238

9.7 Analysis 242

9.8 Conclusion 246

10 Conclusions 248

10.1 Introduction 248

10.2 Revisiting Narratives of Mundane Governance 249

10.3 Partial Takes and Coherent Accounts 256

10.4 Outstanding Issues 260

10.5 Futures of Mundane Governance 263.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-276) and index.

ISBN:

9780199584741

0199584745

OCLC:

870263301

Publisher Number:

60001871460