{"product_id":"audit-culture","title":"Audit Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAll 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?\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eCris 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e Audit Culture\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e is the first book to systematically document and analyse these phenomena and their implications for democracy. \u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Susan Wright","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42850199306301,"sku":"9780745336459","price":37.76,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0597\/7689\/2989\/files\/9780745336459_3d41ee66-4630-41c3-a327-1cc8a8587cca.jpg?v=1767070559","url":"https:\/\/www.palmleaf.com.au\/products\/audit-culture","provider":"Palmleaf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}