Data Practices: Making Up a European People
The book develops a conception of data practices to analyze findings from collaborative ethnographic multisite fieldwork as part of a five-year project.
Enactment
Data Subjects: Calibrating and Sieving
Who are the subjects of data practices? How do data practices configure the capacities of subjects to become part of a population?
Statistician Subjects: Differentiating and Defending
We consider how the statistician subject is being shaped, and the profession of national statistician repositioned, through professionalising practices.
Methods as Forces of Subjectivation: Experiments in the Remaking of Official Statistics
We develop the concept of methods as forces of subjectivation in relation to experiments we have encountered in a study of official population statistics.
Peopling Europe through Data Practices: Introduction to the Special Issue
What does it mean to say, I am European? Where does Europe begin and end? Who can legitimately claim to be a part of a European people?
Doing a Transversal Method: Developing an Ethics of Care in a Collaborative Research Project
We depart from some conceptual presuppositions of methodological cosmopolitanism to define a transversal method.
Transcending Methodological Nationalism Through a Transversal Method? On the Stakes and Challenges of Collaboration
This paper reflects on the challenges of doing collaborative ethnography in a research project (ARITHMUS) that studies the enactment of populations through statistics.