Andrea Mennicken
Biographic Data
| ID | 120311 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrea Mennicken |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrea |
| FAMILY NAME | Mennicken |
| SIGNATURE | MENNICKEN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5658-7678 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 193 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
“Making up” user voice: Accounting for experiences of the vulnerable
Over the past two decades, policy and regulation in social and healthcare settings, as well as across public service delivery more broadly, have placed increasing emphasis on “user voice” and “user experience” in the commissioning and evaluation of services. Yet the formats and methods through which such accounts of user feedback should be produced often remain indeterminate. This paper examines the organizational processes involved in eliciting,…
Experiences of Digitized Valuation
The New Politics of Numbers: Utopia, Evidence and Democracy
International audience
Digitizing Valuation
There is hardly anything that has not been digitized these days.Healthcare, finance, insurance, science, warfare, work, and social life have all been subject to technoscientific practices that process data in the form of 1s and 0s (Negroponte 1995).This shift, which is commonly glossed as "digitization," is sometimes described as radical or recent, when in fact it has been going on for almost a century (Grier 2007).By now, we are confronted with …
Von Performativität zu Generativität: Bewertung und ihre Folgen im Kontext der Digitalisierung
In diesem Beitrag gehen wir zwei Fragen nach. Erstens, inwiefern kann ein Fokus auf Praktiken der Bewertung zur Klärung des Zusammenhangs zwischen Vergleich, Kategorisierung und Quantifizierung beitragen? Und zweitens, inwieweit verhilft er dazu, die Voraussetzungen und Folgen neuer digitaler Formate, wie etwa Vergleichsportale, Empfehlungssysteme oder Screening- und Scoring-Verfahren, besser zu verstehen? Im Gegensatz zur Auffassung, dass Wert i…
New Politics of Numbers: Utopia, Evidence and Democracy
Thinking Infrastructures
What's New with Numbers? Sociological Approaches to the Study of Quantification
Calculation and quantification have been critical features of modern societies, closely linked to science, markets, and administration. In the past thirty years, the pace, purpose, and scope of quantification have greatly expanded, and there has been a corresponding increase in scholarship on quantification. We offer an assessment of the widely dispersed literature on quantification across four domains where quantification and quantification scho…
Économicisation et démocratisation de la faillite: Inventer une procédure de défaillance pour les hôpitaux britanniques
La notion d’économicisation a fait couler beaucoup d’encre. Pourtant, les sociologues ont prêté peu d’attention au moment de la faillite économique, aux moments qui la précèdent, et à l’infrastructure de calcul ainsi qu’aux processus afférents à travers lesquels tant le déroulement de la faillite que son résultat deviennent des objets manipulables. Cet article examine le passage de l’économicisation de l’économie de marché, qui s’est déroulée tou…
Five years! Have we not had enough of valuation studies by now
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Wendy Espeland and Michael Sauder, Engines of Anxiety: Academic Rankings, Reputation, and Accountability. New York, NY, Russell Sage Foundation, 2016
Correspondence: [email protected] Numbers, including university rankings, as Espeland and Sauder’s book so powerfully demonstrates, have in many ways come to rule our lives. Whether in the public or private sector, economic, social or political life, activities are increasingly structured around numerical representations: quantified impact assessments, benchmarks, cost-benefit analyses, estimates of social and financial return, measurements…
Quantifying, Economising, and Marketising: Democratising the social sphere
In recent decades, there has been an avalanche of numbers in public life, one that matches that which occurred in the first half of the nineteenth century. The difference today is that many of the numbers that are now so central to political rule pertain to performance, and depend on a felicitous interlocking of quantifying, economising, and marketising. The calculated management of life is at a critical juncture, and it is essential that we cons…
Valuation and Calculation at the Margins
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Michel Foucault and the Administering of Lives
This chapter suggests that Michel Foucault is a nuisance for scholars of organizations, albeit a productive one. Foucault disavowed the study of organizations, yet his work was fundamentally concerned with the administering of lives, a central concern of scholars of organizations. The chapter explores this tension by examining four displacements that Foucault sought to effect: first, a move from asking ‘why’ type questions to ‘how’ type questions…
Valuation Studies and the Critique of Valuation
Accounting, Territorialization and Power
This essay aims to introduce readers to the social studies of accounting, attending in particular to the roles and relevance of Foucault’s works for this field. We provide a brief overview of social studies of accounting, discuss recent developments in Foucault oriented accounting scholarship, and position the articles that appear in this special issue in the context of these developments. In the concluding section, we argue that accounting is an…
Accountants' Truth: Knowledge and Ethics in the Financial World - By M. Gill
Zahlenwerk: Kalkulation, Organisation und Gesellschaft
Einleitung: Fundstellen von Zahlenforschung
Zahlen und Rechenpraktiken sind in der Gegenwartsgesellschaft, ihren Organisationen, ihren Alltagswelten, in Wirtschaft, Politik, Massenmedien, Erziehung und Wissenschaft allgegenwärtig. Jeden Tag werden wir mit Zahlen, z. B. in der Form von Prognosen, Preisen, Risikobewertungen, Kostennutzenanalysen, Schulnoten, Bilanzen, Sportergebnissen und Tabellen oder innerbetrieblichen Kennzahlen konfrontiert. Privates und öffentliches Zusammenleben vollzi…
Zahlenwerk: Kalkulation, Organisation und Gesellschaft
Inwiefern die massenhafte Mobilisierung von Zahlen und Rechenpraktiken die Aufrechterhaltung sozialer Ordnung ermöglicht oder in Mitleidenschaft zieht, hat in den Sozialwissenschaften bislang wenig systematische Beachtung gefunden. Auch die Diskussion Ã1⁄4ber organisiertes Rechnen, die im englischsprachigen Raum unter dem Oberbegriff des "Accounting" gefÃ1⁄4hrt wird, ist weitgehend auf Spezialistenkreise beschränkt geblieben. Mit Beiträgen zum Um…
What's New with Numbers? Sociological Approaches to the Study of Quantification
Calculation and quantification have been critical features of modern societies, closely linked to science, markets, and administration. In the past thirty years, the pace, purpose, and scope of quantification have greatly expanded, and there has been a corresponding increase in scholarship on quantification. We offer an assessment of the widely dispersed literature on quantification across four domains where quantification and quantification scho…
Accounting, Territorialization and Power
This essay aims to introduce readers to the social studies of accounting, attending in particular to the roles and relevance of Foucault’s works for this field. We provide a brief overview of social studies of accounting, discuss recent developments in Foucault oriented accounting scholarship, and position the articles that appear in this special issue in the context of these developments. In the concluding section, we argue that accounting is an…
Quantifying, Economising, and Marketising: Democratising the social sphere
In recent decades, there has been an avalanche of numbers in public life, one that matches that which occurred in the first half of the nineteenth century. The difference today is that many of the numbers that are now so central to political rule pertain to performance, and depend on a felicitous interlocking of quantifying, economising, and marketising. The calculated management of life is at a critical juncture, and it is essential that we cons…
Zahlenwerk: Kalkulation, Organisation und Gesellschaft
Inwiefern die massenhafte Mobilisierung von Zahlen und Rechenpraktiken die Aufrechterhaltung sozialer Ordnung ermöglicht oder in Mitleidenschaft zieht, hat in den Sozialwissenschaften bislang wenig systematische Beachtung gefunden. Auch die Diskussion Ã1⁄4ber organisiertes Rechnen, die im englischsprachigen Raum unter dem Oberbegriff des "Accounting" gefÃ1⁄4hrt wird, ist weitgehend auf Spezialistenkreise beschränkt geblieben. Mit Beiträgen zum Um…
Von Performativität zu Generativität: Bewertung und ihre Folgen im Kontext der Digitalisierung
In diesem Beitrag gehen wir zwei Fragen nach. Erstens, inwiefern kann ein Fokus auf Praktiken der Bewertung zur Klärung des Zusammenhangs zwischen Vergleich, Kategorisierung und Quantifizierung beitragen? Und zweitens, inwieweit verhilft er dazu, die Voraussetzungen und Folgen neuer digitaler Formate, wie etwa Vergleichsportale, Empfehlungssysteme oder Screening- und Scoring-Verfahren, besser zu verstehen? Im Gegensatz zur Auffassung, dass Wert i…
Zahlenwerk: Kalkulation, Organisation und Gesellschaft
Einleitung: Fundstellen von Zahlenforschung
Zahlen und Rechenpraktiken sind in der Gegenwartsgesellschaft, ihren Organisationen, ihren Alltagswelten, in Wirtschaft, Politik, Massenmedien, Erziehung und Wissenschaft allgegenwärtig. Jeden Tag werden wir mit Zahlen, z. B. in der Form von Prognosen, Preisen, Risikobewertungen, Kostennutzenanalysen, Schulnoten, Bilanzen, Sportergebnissen und Tabellen oder innerbetrieblichen Kennzahlen konfrontiert. Privates und öffentliches Zusammenleben vollzi…
Zahlenwerk: Kalkulation, Organisation und Gesellschaft
Inwiefern die massenhafte Mobilisierung von Zahlen und Rechenpraktiken die Aufrechterhaltung sozialer Ordnung ermöglicht oder in Mitleidenschaft zieht, hat in den Sozialwissenschaften bislang wenig systematische Beachtung gefunden. Auch die Diskussion Ã1⁄4ber organisiertes Rechnen, die im englischsprachigen Raum unter dem Oberbegriff des "Accounting" gefÃ1⁄4hrt wird, ist weitgehend auf Spezialistenkreise beschränkt geblieben. Mit Beiträgen zum Um…
Accounting, Territorialization and Power
This essay aims to introduce readers to the social studies of accounting, attending in particular to the roles and relevance of Foucault’s works for this field. We provide a brief overview of social studies of accounting, discuss recent developments in Foucault oriented accounting scholarship, and position the articles that appear in this special issue in the context of these developments. In the concluding section, we argue that accounting is an…
Accountants' Truth: Knowledge and Ethics in the Financial World - By M. Gill
Michel Foucault and the Administering of Lives
This chapter suggests that Michel Foucault is a nuisance for scholars of organizations, albeit a productive one. Foucault disavowed the study of organizations, yet his work was fundamentally concerned with the administering of lives, a central concern of scholars of organizations. The chapter explores this tension by examining four displacements that Foucault sought to effect: first, a move from asking ‘why’ type questions to ‘how’ type questions…
Valuation Studies and the Critique of Valuation
Valuation and Calculation at the Margins
Not Available
Quantifying, Economising, and Marketising: Democratising the social sphere
In recent decades, there has been an avalanche of numbers in public life, one that matches that which occurred in the first half of the nineteenth century. The difference today is that many of the numbers that are now so central to political rule pertain to performance, and depend on a felicitous interlocking of quantifying, economising, and marketising. The calculated management of life is at a critical juncture, and it is essential that we cons…
Économicisation et démocratisation de la faillite: Inventer une procédure de défaillance pour les hôpitaux britanniques
La notion d’économicisation a fait couler beaucoup d’encre. Pourtant, les sociologues ont prêté peu d’attention au moment de la faillite économique, aux moments qui la précèdent, et à l’infrastructure de calcul ainsi qu’aux processus afférents à travers lesquels tant le déroulement de la faillite que son résultat deviennent des objets manipulables. Cet article examine le passage de l’économicisation de l’économie de marché, qui s’est déroulée tou…
Five years! Have we not had enough of valuation studies by now
Not Available
Wendy Espeland and Michael Sauder, Engines of Anxiety: Academic Rankings, Reputation, and Accountability. New York, NY, Russell Sage Foundation, 2016
Correspondence: [email protected] Numbers, including university rankings, as Espeland and Sauder’s book so powerfully demonstrates, have in many ways come to rule our lives. Whether in the public or private sector, economic, social or political life, activities are increasingly structured around numerical representations: quantified impact assessments, benchmarks, cost-benefit analyses, estimates of social and financial return, measurements…
Thinking Infrastructures
What's New with Numbers? Sociological Approaches to the Study of Quantification
Calculation and quantification have been critical features of modern societies, closely linked to science, markets, and administration. In the past thirty years, the pace, purpose, and scope of quantification have greatly expanded, and there has been a corresponding increase in scholarship on quantification. We offer an assessment of the widely dispersed literature on quantification across four domains where quantification and quantification scho…
Von Performativität zu Generativität: Bewertung und ihre Folgen im Kontext der Digitalisierung
In diesem Beitrag gehen wir zwei Fragen nach. Erstens, inwiefern kann ein Fokus auf Praktiken der Bewertung zur Klärung des Zusammenhangs zwischen Vergleich, Kategorisierung und Quantifizierung beitragen? Und zweitens, inwieweit verhilft er dazu, die Voraussetzungen und Folgen neuer digitaler Formate, wie etwa Vergleichsportale, Empfehlungssysteme oder Screening- und Scoring-Verfahren, besser zu verstehen? Im Gegensatz zur Auffassung, dass Wert i…
New Politics of Numbers: Utopia, Evidence and Democracy
The New Politics of Numbers: Utopia, Evidence and Democracy
International audience
Digitizing Valuation
There is hardly anything that has not been digitized these days.Healthcare, finance, insurance, science, warfare, work, and social life have all been subject to technoscientific practices that process data in the form of 1s and 0s (Negroponte 1995).This shift, which is commonly glossed as "digitization," is sometimes described as radical or recent, when in fact it has been going on for almost a century (Grier 2007).By now, we are confronted with …
Experiences of Digitized Valuation
“Making up” user voice: Accounting for experiences of the vulnerable
Over the past two decades, policy and regulation in social and healthcare settings, as well as across public service delivery more broadly, have placed increasing emphasis on “user voice” and “user experience” in the commissioning and evaluation of services. Yet the formats and methods through which such accounts of user feedback should be produced often remain indeterminate. This paper examines the organizational processes involved in eliciting,…
Political science (10 works) · Accounting (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Economic Theory and Institutions (3 works)