{"product_id":"9780745336459","title":"Audit Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAll aspects of our work and private lives are increasingly measured and managed. But how has this 'audit culture' arisen and what kind of a world is it producing?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eCris Shore and Susan Wright provide a timely account of the rise of the new industries of accounting, enumeration and ranking from an anthropological perspective, drawing on political economy, ethnographic observation and genealogical excavation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e Audit Culture\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e is the first book to systematically document and analyse these phenomena and their implications for democracy. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe book explores how audit culture operates across a wide range of fields, including health, higher education, NGOs, finance, the automobile industry and the military. The authors build a powerful critique of contemporary public sector management in an age of neoliberal market-making, privatisation and outsourcing. They conclude by offering a raft of suggested actions to reverse its damaging effects on communities, reclaim professional autonomy, and restore the democratic accountability that audit culture is systematically undermining.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cris Shore, Susan Wright","offers":[{"title":"Pluto Press |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (UK) |  2024-02-20","offer_id":44663107158271,"sku":"9780745336459","price":37.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_a167abb9-6502-4087-b3f2-7fc015c0e876.jpg?v=1704568562","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9780745336459","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}