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Transparency In A New Global Order |
Edited by Christina Garsten, Professor and Research Director, Department of Social Anthropology and Score (Stockholm Centre for Organizational Research), Stockholm University, Sweden and Monica Lindh de Montoya, Associate Professor, Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University, Sweden
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| 2008 |
320 pp |
Hardback |
978 1 84542 325 4 |
£79.95 |
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This book argues that transparency is a concept that has gained increasing currency and favour as an organizing principle and administrative goal in recent years. Calls for transparency have been directed towards states, markets, corporations and national political processes as well as towards large institutions such as the European Union. Focusing on empirically rich case studies, this volume explores the ideas and practices of transparency in different contexts, encouraging a discussion of the many facets of the term and its strengths, ambiguities and limitations. The authors aim to shed light on the powerful global discourse and practices contained in the concept, although previously, few attempts have been made to examine the actual content and practice of transparency. Christina Garsten and Monica Lindh de Montoya aim to fill this gap in the literature. They discuss the complex negotiations through which it is determined what shall be displayed and what shall remain hidden, the uses of power and control, and the processes through which transparency is, or is not, achieved.
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Contents: Preface Introduction Part I: Transparency and Utopia: Visibility, Truth, Future Part II: Transparency and Regulation: Negotiation, Ideals, Compromises Part III: Transparency and the Public: Participation, Exclusion, Ambivalence In Retrospect: The Play of Shadows Index
Contributors: S. Abram, B. Birkebæk Olesen, M. Boström, R. Galli, C. Garsten, E. Grossman, A. Hasselström, M. Klintman, M. Lindh de Montoya, E. Luque, M. Montoya, F. Muniesa, L. Soneryd, R. Thedvall, A. Timm, M. Viktorin, C. Yenkey
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