Who's Counting? Legitimating Measurement in the Audit Culture

Autor/inn/en	Ocean, Jude; Skourdoumbis, Andrew
Titel	Who's Counting? Legitimating Measurement in the Audit Culture
Quelle	In: Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 37 (2016) 3, S.442-456 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0159-6306
DOI	10.1080/01596306.2015.1061977
Schlagwörter	Measurement; Audits (Verification); Measurement Techniques; Mathematics; Military Science; Genealogy; Neoliberalism; Engineering + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Messverfahren; Messtechnik; Mathematik; Military studies; Militärwissenschaft; Ahnenforschung; Genealogie; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Maschinenbau
Abstract	What gives legitimacy to the numbers that constitute the measurement techniques of the audit culture? We argue that the audit culture's blind application of numbers to people as if there was no moral or ethical dimension to the calculation rests on a military discourse resident in mathematics. This argument is based on the genealogy presented in this paper, which uncovers a regime of measurement-by-number, sedimented as legitimate through an association with military power. We claim that this military measurement-by-number is a dubious technique of government on which the audit culture relies for its highly questionable authority. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01