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Revenge of the Humdrum: Bureaucracy as Profession and as a Site of Science (2020)

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Bureaucracy, so often demeaned, should be understood as an embodied means for the production and deployment of knowledge. Its reputation as humdrum and rule-bound is not necessarily undeserved, yet it makes possible a variety of activities on a scale that would otherwise be out of reach. Here we survey and ponder some of its diverse forms as they have adapted to diverse aims and circumstances evolved over several centuries.   This afterword is part of a special issue entitled “Histories of Bureaucratic Knowledge,” edited by Sebastian Felten and Christine von Oertzen.

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Authors & Contributors
Felten, Sebastian
Begley, Philip
David Demortain
Wang, Sixiang
Mann, Rachel
Sampsa Saikkonen
Concepts
Sociology of knowledge
Bureaucracy
Diffusion of innovation; diffusion of knowledge; diffusion of technology
History of knowledge
Mass media
Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
18th century
17th century
Medieval
Qing dynasty (China, 1644-1912)
Places
China
Saxony
Netherlands
Germany
Europe
Istanbul (Turkey)
Institutions
United States. Environmental Protection Agency
Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro
National Health Service (Great Britain)
Dutch East India Company
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