Statistical Innovation in the Global South
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Statistical Innovation in the Global South. / Villacis, Byron; Thiel, Alena; Capistrano, Daniel; Carvalho Da Silva, Christyne.
I: Comparative Sociology, Bind 21, Nr. 4, 2022, s. 419-446.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Statistical Innovation in the Global South
AU - Villacis, Byron
AU - Thiel, Alena
AU - Capistrano, Daniel
AU - Carvalho Da Silva, Christyne
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2022 Copyright 2022 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - This article proposes a comparative socio-economic history of quantification in Ecuador, Brazil, Ghana and Sierra Leone. It narrows in on censuses in the Global South as sites of methodological and infrastructural innovation in the context of global circulations of model population data systems, methodological standards, and material infrastructures. Specifically, the authors ask which arrangements of actors, norms and settings are involved in the reception, translation and adaptation of statistical innovation and how uneven relations and compositions of power between and within these fields shape the process of transmission. Distilling from their explorative, hermeneutic approach, the authors explore the mechanisms that link variously positioned political fields (Bourdieu, 1985) in the production and implementation of statistical innovation in the Global South. Four mechanisms are identified that shape statistical innovation as process of reception of globally circulating models and ideas as well as their adaptations into specific fields, all of which have differentiated effects and play under certain conditions in parallel or combined ways: 1) interventionist impulses from international organizations, 2) commercial and institutional brokerage, 3) initiatives from local professional communities, and 4) effects of political instabilities.
AB - This article proposes a comparative socio-economic history of quantification in Ecuador, Brazil, Ghana and Sierra Leone. It narrows in on censuses in the Global South as sites of methodological and infrastructural innovation in the context of global circulations of model population data systems, methodological standards, and material infrastructures. Specifically, the authors ask which arrangements of actors, norms and settings are involved in the reception, translation and adaptation of statistical innovation and how uneven relations and compositions of power between and within these fields shape the process of transmission. Distilling from their explorative, hermeneutic approach, the authors explore the mechanisms that link variously positioned political fields (Bourdieu, 1985) in the production and implementation of statistical innovation in the Global South. Four mechanisms are identified that shape statistical innovation as process of reception of globally circulating models and ideas as well as their adaptations into specific fields, all of which have differentiated effects and play under certain conditions in parallel or combined ways: 1) interventionist impulses from international organizations, 2) commercial and institutional brokerage, 3) initiatives from local professional communities, and 4) effects of political instabilities.
KW - Brazil
KW - digitalization
KW - Ecuador
KW - Ghana
KW - population censuses
KW - Sierra Leone
KW - statistical innovation
KW - translation
U2 - 10.1163/15691330-bja10060
DO - 10.1163/15691330-bja10060
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85139409491
VL - 21
SP - 419
EP - 446
JO - Comparative Sociology
JF - Comparative Sociology
SN - 1569-1322
IS - 4
ER -
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