[Linganth] Audit Culture on the blog

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
This Monday, Cris Shore and Sue Wright answer my questions about their new
book, *Audit Culture: **How Indicators and Rankings are Reshaping the
World/*

You can read all about contemporary ways we are being disciplined here:

www.campanthropology.org

Best,
Ilana

Press blurb: All aspects of our work and private lives are increasingly
measured and managed. But how has this ‘audit culture’ arisen and what kind
of a world is it producing?

Cris Shore and Susan Wright provide a timely account of the rise of the new
industries of accounting, enumeration and ranking from an anthropological
perspective, drawing on political economy, ethnographic observation and
genealogical excavation.* Audit Culture* is the first book to
systematically document and analyse these phenomena and their implications
for democracy.

The book explores how audit culture operates across a wide range of fields,
including health, higher education, NGOs, finance, the automobile industry
and the military. The authors build a powerful critique of contemporary
public sector management in an age of neoliberal market-making,
privatisation and outsourcing. They conclude by offering a raft of
suggested actions to reverse its damaging effects on communities, reclaim
professional autonomy, and restore the democratic accountability that audit
culture is systematically undermining.
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