Dan Bouk
Biographic Data
| ID | 952575 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dan Bouk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dan |
| FAMILY NAME | Bouk |
| SIGNATURE | BOUK D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colgate University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3866-3411 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
"The History of "Impairment
Impairment is a key term in Anglophone disability studies and medical discourse, referring to physical difference, limitation, or injury. Yet its history has been obscured or misunderstood. When disability scholars and activists critique the definition of impairment, they generally place the concept in the genealogy of medicalization and inappropriate pathologization. This article, in contrast, traces the development of the impairment concept to …
Brain Magnet: Research Triangle Park and the Idea of the Idea Economy
Brain Magnet tells the story of North Carolina's Research Triangle Park (Rtp), a regional development project that became a model for thinking about postindustrial economic success. Alex Sayf Cummings spins this story with concision and clarity, presenting archival research next to oral history interviews to showcase big changes in political economy as they played out in the day-to-day lives of the book's varied cast of characters. The book reads…
Love Is a Problem of Knowledge
Faced with the complicated problem of matching people, matchmakers over the last few centuries have sought for, experimented with, and embraced various intellectual tools that promised to help. This commentary on the preceding essays in the Focus section “It’s a Match!” discusses the tools for matchmaking developed from fields like astrology or phrenology and their social implications. The essay closes with a meditation on the continuities eviden…
America by the Numbers: Quantification, Democracy, and the Birth of National Statistics by Emmanuel Didier
Reviewed by: America by the Numbers: Quantification, Democracy, and the Birth of National Statistics by Emmanuel Didier Dan Bouk (bio) America by the Numbers: Quantification, Democracy, and the Birth of National Statistics By Emmanuel Didier. Translated by Priya Vari Sen. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020. Pp. 432. America by the Numbers: Quantification, Democracy, and the Birth of National Statistics By Emmanuel Didier. Translated by Priya Vari Sen…
Coreen McGuire, Measuring Difference, Numbering Normal: Setting the Standard for Disability in the Interwar Period
Coreen McGuire tells the stories of people coping with and making space for individual variability in the context of standardising processes and institutions in Interwar Britain. She focuses in this book on two institutions in particular, the British Post Office (with the telephone monopoly it maintained) and the Medical Research Council (MRC), to explain how norms are set, instantiated in technologies, made manifest in everyday lives, and adapte…
Materializing Covid
Previous articleNext article FreeMaterializing COVIDDan BoukDan BoukColgate University and Data and Society Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreCrack open a New York City office building. What do you find?As I write this essay in June, in my apartment at the northern tip of Manhattan, the answ…
Generation Crisis: How Population Research Defined the Baby Boomers
This article presents an intellectual and social history of the concept of the baby boom. Researchers first invented the notion of a population bulge in the mid-twentieth-century United States to explain birth rates that were higher than predicted by their theories of a mature population and economy. As the children born during this “baby boom” entered schools in the 1950s, they were drawn into a pre-existing conversation about an educational eme…
Noam Maggor. Brahmin Capitalism: Frontiers of Wealth and Populism in America’s First Gilded Age
Brahmin Capitalism explains, in brisk prose, how Boston elites with their cotton-gotten gains tried to build a modern city and a national market suited to the free flow of capital. They often succeeded. But to the extent that they did not, they failed in the face of competing political visions of an industrialized United States. Through Noam Maggor’s insightful intellectual history of late-nineteenth-century American political economy, his reader…
The History and Political Economy of Personal Data over the Last Two Centuries in Three Acts
This essay uses the sociological concept of the “data double” to investigate the changing political economy of personal data in the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and up to today. It reviews secondary sources and examines select primary sources to argue for the ascendance of the double over the last two centuries and establishes a three-part periodization for personal data. In the first act, personal data worked mainly in…
How Our Days Became Numbered: Risk and the Rise of the Statistical Individual
The Science of Difference: Developing Tools for Discrimination in the American Life Insurance Industry, 1830–1930
The Science of Difference examines life insurance companies' significant impact on the development of systems of human classification and discrimination in modern America. It pays closest attention to the tools employed by life insurance companies to enable and justify their discriminatory practices, tracing their evolution over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Companies used life tables to think about sectional differe…
The History and Political Economy of Personal Data over the Last Two Centuries in Three Acts
This essay uses the sociological concept of the “data double” to investigate the changing political economy of personal data in the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and up to today. It reviews secondary sources and examines select primary sources to argue for the ascendance of the double over the last two centuries and establishes a three-part periodization for personal data. In the first act, personal data worked mainly in…
"The History of "Impairment
Impairment is a key term in Anglophone disability studies and medical discourse, referring to physical difference, limitation, or injury. Yet its history has been obscured or misunderstood. When disability scholars and activists critique the definition of impairment, they generally place the concept in the genealogy of medicalization and inappropriate pathologization. This article, in contrast, traces the development of the impairment concept to …
Love Is a Problem of Knowledge
Faced with the complicated problem of matching people, matchmakers over the last few centuries have sought for, experimented with, and embraced various intellectual tools that promised to help. This commentary on the preceding essays in the Focus section “It’s a Match!” discusses the tools for matchmaking developed from fields like astrology or phrenology and their social implications. The essay closes with a meditation on the continuities eviden…
The Science of Difference: Developing Tools for Discrimination in the American Life Insurance Industry, 1830–1930
The Science of Difference examines life insurance companies' significant impact on the development of systems of human classification and discrimination in modern America. It pays closest attention to the tools employed by life insurance companies to enable and justify their discriminatory practices, tracing their evolution over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Companies used life tables to think about sectional differe…
The Science of Difference: Developing Tools for Discrimination in the American Life Insurance Industry, 1830–1930
The Science of Difference examines life insurance companies' significant impact on the development of systems of human classification and discrimination in modern America. It pays closest attention to the tools employed by life insurance companies to enable and justify their discriminatory practices, tracing their evolution over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Companies used life tables to think about sectional differe…
How Our Days Became Numbered: Risk and the Rise of the Statistical Individual
The History and Political Economy of Personal Data over the Last Two Centuries in Three Acts
This essay uses the sociological concept of the “data double” to investigate the changing political economy of personal data in the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and up to today. It reviews secondary sources and examines select primary sources to argue for the ascendance of the double over the last two centuries and establishes a three-part periodization for personal data. In the first act, personal data worked mainly in…
Generation Crisis: How Population Research Defined the Baby Boomers
This article presents an intellectual and social history of the concept of the baby boom. Researchers first invented the notion of a population bulge in the mid-twentieth-century United States to explain birth rates that were higher than predicted by their theories of a mature population and economy. As the children born during this “baby boom” entered schools in the 1950s, they were drawn into a pre-existing conversation about an educational eme…
Noam Maggor. Brahmin Capitalism: Frontiers of Wealth and Populism in America’s First Gilded Age
Brahmin Capitalism explains, in brisk prose, how Boston elites with their cotton-gotten gains tried to build a modern city and a national market suited to the free flow of capital. They often succeeded. But to the extent that they did not, they failed in the face of competing political visions of an industrialized United States. Through Noam Maggor’s insightful intellectual history of late-nineteenth-century American political economy, his reader…
Coreen McGuire, Measuring Difference, Numbering Normal: Setting the Standard for Disability in the Interwar Period
Coreen McGuire tells the stories of people coping with and making space for individual variability in the context of standardising processes and institutions in Interwar Britain. She focuses in this book on two institutions in particular, the British Post Office (with the telephone monopoly it maintained) and the Medical Research Council (MRC), to explain how norms are set, instantiated in technologies, made manifest in everyday lives, and adapte…
Materializing Covid
Previous articleNext article FreeMaterializing COVIDDan BoukDan BoukColgate University and Data and Society Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreCrack open a New York City office building. What do you find?As I write this essay in June, in my apartment at the northern tip of Manhattan, the answ…
Love Is a Problem of Knowledge
Faced with the complicated problem of matching people, matchmakers over the last few centuries have sought for, experimented with, and embraced various intellectual tools that promised to help. This commentary on the preceding essays in the Focus section “It’s a Match!” discusses the tools for matchmaking developed from fields like astrology or phrenology and their social implications. The essay closes with a meditation on the continuities eviden…
America by the Numbers: Quantification, Democracy, and the Birth of National Statistics by Emmanuel Didier
Reviewed by: America by the Numbers: Quantification, Democracy, and the Birth of National Statistics by Emmanuel Didier Dan Bouk (bio) America by the Numbers: Quantification, Democracy, and the Birth of National Statistics By Emmanuel Didier. Translated by Priya Vari Sen. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020. Pp. 432. America by the Numbers: Quantification, Democracy, and the Birth of National Statistics By Emmanuel Didier. Translated by Priya Vari Sen…
Brain Magnet: Research Triangle Park and the Idea of the Idea Economy
Brain Magnet tells the story of North Carolina's Research Triangle Park (Rtp), a regional development project that became a model for thinking about postindustrial economic success. Alex Sayf Cummings spins this story with concision and clarity, presenting archival research next to oral history interviews to showcase big changes in political economy as they played out in the day-to-day lives of the book's varied cast of characters. The book reads…
"The History of "Impairment
Impairment is a key term in Anglophone disability studies and medical discourse, referring to physical difference, limitation, or injury. Yet its history has been obscured or misunderstood. When disability scholars and activists critique the definition of impairment, they generally place the concept in the genealogy of medicalization and inappropriate pathologization. This article, in contrast, traces the development of the impairment concept to …
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