Enumerated entities in public policy and governance

Helen Verran ()
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Helen Verran: University of Melbourne, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies

A chapter in Mathematics, Substance and Surmise, 2015, pp 365-379 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract A poster promoting policy change in Australia’s fisheries, which features a list of seven numbers in its effort to persuade, serves as occasion to do ontology. A performativist analytic is mobilized to show the mutual entanglements of politics and epistemics within which these numbers, agential in policy, come to life. Three distinct types of entanglement are revealed. Numbers have different political valences, and mathematicians need to attend to these in order to act responsibly as mathematicians.

Keywords: Great Barrier Reef; Fishery Product; Governance Practice; Vague Predicate; Economic Infrastructure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-21473-3_18

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