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Alice is a nurse in the outpatients’ department of a major Paris hospital. Obviously, her work consists in looking after patients who turn up every morning at her surgery and are discharged in the evening, sometimes after an operation; but not all her work is like this, and not as often as she would like. For Alice has also transformed herself, under the impact of hospital reforms into a real bureaucrat.
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Thévenot, “Un gouvernement par les normes,” pp. 204–42. See also, following on from Thévenot: Elizabeth C. Dunn, “Standards and Person-Making in East Central Europe,” in Aihwa Ong and Stephen J. Collier (eds.), Global Assemblages. Technology, Politics and Ethics as Anthropological Problems (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005), pp. 173–93; Dunn refers to a “normative governmental-ity.” Murphy and Yates, The International Organization for Standardization and Brunsson and Jacobsson et al., A World of Standards; these writers emphasize how the realm of standards has spread beyond the industrial and more broadly technical sphere to management, the environment, and social questions. Christian Brütsch and
Dirk Lehmkulh, “Complex Legalization and the Many Moves to Law,” in Christian Brütsch and Dirk Lehmkulh (eds.), Law and Legalization in Transnational Relations (London: Routledge, 2007), pp. 9–32; the authors here use the term “norm-based momentum” and point out that the number of legal norms is increasing at the international level—as do
Yves Schemeil and Wolf Dieter Eberwein (eds.), Normer le monde (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2009).
Amy Slaton and Janet Abbate, “The Hidden Lives of Standards. Technical Prescriptions and the Transformation of Work in America,” in Michael T. Allen and Gabrielle Hecht (eds.), Technologies of Power (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001), pp. 95–144; Lampland and Leigh Star (eds.), Standards and Their Stories.
For a critical approach, see Bayart, Global Subjects, chapter 1, and Guy Hermet, Ali Kazancigil, and Jean-François Prud’homme (eds.), La Gouvernance. Un concept et ses applications (Paris: Karthala, 2005). For a more appreciative treatment, see
James N. Rosenau and Ernst O. Czempiel (eds.), Governance without Government. Order and Change in World Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992).
Jean-François Bayart, “La revanche des sociétés africaines,” in Politique Africaine, 11 (September 1983): 95–127, on bureaucracy as a social movement, and “L’énonciation du politique,” Revue Française de Science Politique, 35 (3) (1985): 343–73.
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Hibou, B. (2015). Introduction. In: The Bureaucratization of the World in the Neoliberal Era. The Sciences Po Series in International Relations and Political Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137495280_1
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