Introduction: What Do Statistics Do?
This chapter introduces the themes of numbers and society and their mutual constitution; issues of quantification, commensuration, and translation; the imbrication of the political and the technical, or technopolitics; reform in Turkey and the importance
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Brian Silverstein
The Social Lives of Numbers
Brian Silverstein
The Social Lives of Numbers Statistics, Reform and the Remaking of Rural Life in Turkey
Brian Silverstein University of Arizona Tucson, AZ, USA
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Acknowledgments
I’m very grateful to the many farmers, statisticians, personnel of ministries and their regional branch offices, technicians, agricultural extension workers and academics across Turkey who took time from their busy days to talk with me. Without naming you, please know that I am immensely grateful to you. Funding for the research came from the American Research Institute in Turkey, the Institute of Turkish Studies, the Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Institute at the University of Arizona, and a sabbatical from the School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. I am fortunate to have the colleagues I do in the School and several other units at Arizona, many of whom have given helpful comments on this work and whose friendship and intellectual sustenance I value a great deal. Thanks especially to Yaseen Noorani, Gökçe Günel, Murat Kaçıra, Dick Eaton, Lee Medovoi, Tom Sheridan, Ben Fortna, Hai Ren, Eric Plemons, Janelle Lamoreaux, Diane Austin, Tim Finan, Mark Nichter, and Dave Raichlen. Further afield Elif Babül, S. Can Açıksöz, Ahmet Gürata, Chris Dole, Ståle Knudse
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