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.
The book develops a conception of data practices to analyze findings from collaborative ethnographic multisite fieldwork as part of a five-year project.
Who are the subjects of data practices? How do data practices configure the capacities of subjects to become part of a population?
We consider how the statistician subject is being shaped, and the profession of national statistician repositioned, through professionalising practices.
We depart from some conceptual presuppositions of methodological cosmopolitanism to define a transversal method.
This paper reflects on the challenges of doing collaborative ethnography in a research project (ARITHMUS) that studies the enactment of populations through statistics.