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Governing cities by numbers. From social statistics to financialization

Fabrice Bardet
Lucia Zanin Shimbo
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Cibele Saliba Rizek
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OBJECTIVES General The first goal of the course is to help students to better apprehend the process of financialization of economy, especially, at the urban level, through a sociological approach. The understanding of the financialization process is provided by the use of a socio-historical grid of analysis that associate modes of governance to specific tools of quantification. It is thus possible to distinguish the type of governance that prevailed during the Providence State period based on social statistics and the one that characterize the neoliberal era, in which financial evaluations are dominating quantification policies. Specifics The seminar offers an historical perspective of quantification policies in modern societies and gives the opportunity to distinguish different sorts of quantifications that are currently mixed: statistics, accounting, and financial evaluation. The seminar also provides a specific focus on the way these types of quantifications have been produced in and for urban development. Finally, the seminar displays a large set of lightings on the process of financialization of urban policies, especially in the housing sector. Several focuses are made on financial (asset managers) and nonfinancial (developers) private actors and on local public agencies. JUSTIFICATION / SCIENTIFIC BACKGROUND In a time where societies and governmental institutions are supposed to be invaded by " numbers " (Rey, 2016 ; Supiot, 2015), we may wonder if numbers are not confiscating the Democracy. In this perspective, it is important to better distinguish different types of numbers, some of them are crucial for modern democracies (i.e. the number of unemployed), and to discuss a basic sociological framework in order to study quantifications not such as a tool of a policy, but rather as the object of a determined public (even if unseen) policy: a quantification policy.
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Fabrice Bardet, Lucia Zanin Shimbo, Cibele Saliba Rizek. Governing cities by numbers. From social statistics to financialization. Master. Brazil. 2017. ⟨cel-01678572⟩
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