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Calculating, standardizing, and governing go hand in hand.1 Yet the ways in which calculating interacts with other forms of expertise to facilitate particular modes of governing have been given little attention. If we are to understand how calculating operates as a mode of standardizing and governing in local, yet connected, contexts, we suggest that it is important to examine such interactions. As others have argued, we need to look beyond the boundaries of firms, organizations, and nation states if we are to understand phenomena such as ‘meta-organizations’, ‘transnational regulation’, the ‘modern world polity’, ‘global assemblages’, and ‘global governmentality’ (Djelic and Sahlin-Andersson, 2006; Drori et al., 2003, 2006; Lipschutz and Rowe, 2005; Mennicken, 2008; Ong and Collier, 2005; Tamm Hallström, 2004). We endorse these calls to attend to modes of governing that bridge the global and the local, and that take place across, within, and between national boundaries. But, rather than focusing on the distinctive entities or modes of organization that characterize the present, we focus here on the calculative practices through which they operate (Larner and Le Heron, 2004; Miller, 1994; Power, 1997). For it is through these, we suggest, that the linking up and mixing up of so many actors, agents, and aspirations is achieved.
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Miller, P., Kurunmäki, L., O’Leary, T. (2010). Calculating Hybrids. In: Higgins, V., Larner, W. (eds) Calculating the Social. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230289673_2
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