The Social Lives of Numbers: Statistics, Reform and the Remaking of Rural Life in Turkey

by Brian Silverstein

This book examines the changing role of statistics in institutional reform in Turkey, and the unanticipated ways in which such changes transform livelihoods as well. Turkish agriculture is undergoing its most profound transformation since the establishment of the Republic in the 1920s. Seemingly minor technical adjustments in farmers' reporting requirements and practices to collect better data on agriculture for statistics are also having a rapid...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9811591954
• ISBN13: 9789811591952
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 121 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"