Counting things and people: The practices and politics of counting

Social Problems

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 243-266

  Martin, Aryn ^a   Lynch, Michael ^b  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Counting; Estimation; Numeropolitics; Science

Indexed keywords

EID: 65449117228     PISSN: 00377791     EISSN: 15338533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/sp.2009.56.2.243     Document Type: Article

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