Johanna Mugler
Biographic Data
| ID | 818343 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Johanna Mugler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Johanna |
| FAMILY NAME | Mugler |
| SIGNATURE | MUGLER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bern Bern Switzerland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1115-537X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Redivisions of Work
The promise of knowledge society is clean, creative, and expressive work. Technological advancements would relieve humans from the tedium and hardship of labor, and access to knowledge and expansion of higher education would diminish the existing social inequalities of industrial society. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Switzerland's mechanical and electrical engineering industry, this article illustrates how the work experiences of apprentice…
Anthropology and Tax
From the perspective of individual taxpayers to international tax norm negotiators, the anthropologists in this collection explore how taxes shape our world: our social relationships and value regimes, how we exclude and include, the categories we think with, and the way we share with each other. A first of its kind, it presents an anthropological discussion about tax rooted in ethnographic work. It asks fundamental questions such as: what is tax…
Measuring Justice
Measuring Justice explores the ways in which South African court and managerial prosecutors deal with the quantification of social phenomena - such as justice, professional work or accountability - and address the radical simplifications of their inherent complexities, misrepresentations and editing as a consequence. While various studies show the concern of professionals about the damaging effects these quantitative forms of accountability have …
Regulatory capture? Fiscal anthropological insights into the heart of contemporary statehood
Understanding the relationship between the state and the business sector is crucial to gaining deeper insights into modern and increasingly global economic orders and their outcomes. This article studies international tax policy negotiations to explore the relationship between economically powerful business actors representing large multinational enterprises (MNEs) and state actors that are charged with negotiating and drafting international tax …
The World of Indicators
The twenty-first century has seen a further dramatic increase in the use of quantitative knowledge for governing social life after its explosion in the 1980s. Indicators and rankings play an increasing role in the way governmental and non-governmental organizations distribute attention, make decisions, and allocate scarce resources. Quantitative knowledge promises to be more objective and straightforward as well as more transparent and open for p…
Redivisions of Work
The promise of knowledge society is clean, creative, and expressive work. Technological advancements would relieve humans from the tedium and hardship of labor, and access to knowledge and expansion of higher education would diminish the existing social inequalities of industrial society. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Switzerland's mechanical and electrical engineering industry, this article illustrates how the work experiences of apprentice…
The World of Indicators
The twenty-first century has seen a further dramatic increase in the use of quantitative knowledge for governing social life after its explosion in the 1980s. Indicators and rankings play an increasing role in the way governmental and non-governmental organizations distribute attention, make decisions, and allocate scarce resources. Quantitative knowledge promises to be more objective and straightforward as well as more transparent and open for p…
Regulatory capture? Fiscal anthropological insights into the heart of contemporary statehood
Understanding the relationship between the state and the business sector is crucial to gaining deeper insights into modern and increasingly global economic orders and their outcomes. This article studies international tax policy negotiations to explore the relationship between economically powerful business actors representing large multinational enterprises (MNEs) and state actors that are charged with negotiating and drafting international tax …
Measuring Justice
Measuring Justice explores the ways in which South African court and managerial prosecutors deal with the quantification of social phenomena - such as justice, professional work or accountability - and address the radical simplifications of their inherent complexities, misrepresentations and editing as a consequence. While various studies show the concern of professionals about the damaging effects these quantitative forms of accountability have …
Anthropology and Tax
From the perspective of individual taxpayers to international tax norm negotiators, the anthropologists in this collection explore how taxes shape our world: our social relationships and value regimes, how we exclude and include, the categories we think with, and the way we share with each other. A first of its kind, it presents an anthropological discussion about tax rooted in ethnographic work. It asks fundamental questions such as: what is tax…
Redivisions of Work
The promise of knowledge society is clean, creative, and expressive work. Technological advancements would relieve humans from the tedium and hardship of labor, and access to knowledge and expansion of higher education would diminish the existing social inequalities of industrial society. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Switzerland's mechanical and electrical engineering industry, this article illustrates how the work experiences of apprentice…
Political science (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Corporate Taxation and Avoidance (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Law (2 works) · LAW (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Taxation and Compliance Studies (2 works) · Anthropology (1 works)