Overview
- Examines the development and deployment of statistics throughout Latin America, from Mexico to the Southern Cone
- Challenges traditional perceptions of Latin America as a passive consumer of foreign theories and methods
- Contributes to a global understanding of statistics and its divergent regional trajectories
Part of the book series: Studies of the Americas (STAM)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
This book brings together recent research on the sociopolitical history of Latin American statistics from the nineteenth to the first half of the twentieth century. Reflecting the influence of social constructivism in the social sciences, it sheds new light on the historical emergence and development of both statistical reasoning and practices within a region traditionally seen as a passive consumer of foreign-produced theories and methods. By analysing the processes of institutionalisation of statistics in different national spaces, from Mexico to the Southern Cone, these studies show the unique ways in which Latin America adapted and used this modern tool of government and social classification to build political regimes and scientific arenas. The early enthusiasm for enumerating reality, the regular production of statistics and censuses, and the role of the region in the global transformation of this knowledge are some of the aspects reviewed to grasp the contingent dynamic of these dialogues and appropriations. Thus, Socio-political Histories of Latin American Statistics seeks to offer new insights into the divergent regional trajectories of this discipline, advancing towards an understanding of statistics and its past from a truly global perspective.
Reviews
“Socio-political histor(ies) of Latin American statistics: these six words synthesize the project behind this remarkable and unique work. Based on a field of research, the socio-politics of quantification, which has experienced significant development in Europe and North America, and mobilizing a network of researchers who are often young but already experienced, this book, full of finesse and subtleties, provides academic audiences around the world with an up-to-date and stimulating state of the art. The approach is historical, sociological, and political. The diversity of statistical experiences in Latin America is considered.” (Jean-Pierre Beaud, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Cecilia T. Lanata-Briones is Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics, University of Warwick, UK, and Adjunct Researcher of the Centro Interdisciplinario para el Estudio de Políticas Públicas, Argentina.
Andrés Estefane is an independent researcher based in Santiago, Chile; he received his Ph.D. in History from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA.
Claudia Jorgelina Daniel is Adjunct Researcher at CONICET based in the Centro de Investigaciones Sociales, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Socio-political Histories of Latin American Statistics
Editors: Cecilia T. Lanata-Briones, Andrés Estefane, Claudia Jorgelina Daniel
Series Title: Studies of the Americas
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87714-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-87713-2Published: 23 April 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-87716-3Published: 23 April 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-87714-9Published: 22 April 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 224
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Comparative Politics, Political Science, International Relations, Latin American History, History of Science