Indicators as a governmental technology? The lessons of community-based sustainability indicator projects
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There has been much interest in the neo-Foucauldian framework of governmentality as a way of understanding contemporary policy processes. In this paper I examine evidence from a case study of local sustainability indicators in the light of this framework. The role of indicators as a potential governmental technology is addressed, covering issues of their ability to objectify sustainability, the scope for altered subjectivities, their positioning within central ^ local government relations, and the construction and responsibilisation of communities, particularly in urban regeneration contexts. I conclude that the use of indicators at the community level may tell us more about central ^ local relations within contemporary governance than about the construction of subjects and objects to enable governance with regard to sustainable development. DOI:10.1068/d72j
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