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The book aims to explore how governance and accountability are mediated through material relations involving ordinary everyday objects and technologies. It draws on empirical materials in three main areas: waste management and recycling; the regulation and control of traffic; and security and passenger movement in airports.
List of contents
- 1: Mundane Governance: a Profound Question of Political Philosophy?
- 2: Wrong Bin Bag: the Situated Ontology of Mundane Governance
- 3: Classification as Governance: Typologies of Waste
- 4: Why Govern? Is, Ought and Actionability in Mundane Governance
- 5: Structures of Governance
- 6: Compliance: Does Mundane Governance Work?
- 7: Spaces of Governance
- 8: Mundane Terror
- 9: Disruption
- 10: Conclusion
About the author
Steve Woolgar is a Sociologist who holds the Chair of Marketing at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. He was formerly Professor of Sociology, Head of the Department of Human Sciences and Director of CRICT (Centre for Research into Innovation, Culture and Technology) at Brunel University. He has held Visiting Appointments at McGill University (Sociology '79-81), MIT (Program in Science Technology and Society, '83-84), Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines, Paris (Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation, '88-89) and UC San Diego (Sociology, '95-96).
Daniel Neyland is a Reader in Sociology, Goldsmiths College. He has previously been Lecturer in the Management School, at the University of Lancaster, and Senior Research Fellow at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. His research interests cover issues of governance, accountability and ethics in forms of science, technology and organization.
Summary
The book aims to explore how governance and accountability are mediated through material relations involving ordinary everyday objects and technologies. It draws on empirical materials in three main areas: waste management and recycling; the regulation and control of traffic; and security and passenger movement in airports.
