The Social Life of Standards is out!
June 2021– The Social Life of Standards: Ethnographic methods for local engagement has been published by UBC Press. The edited volume is the culmination of a CIHR funded project on standards and standardization.
The book provides a framework to think about how standards are created, resisted, and re-developed by communities. It includes many ethnographic case studies; from stem-cell and protemics labs, through ebola crisis, to indigenous environmental and child welfares cases.
It was a privilege to think through what standards meant with talented folks working in many different areas. The book has been featured on a recent Queensland University of Technology blog
We celebrated the book’s coming out as part of a CASCA 2021 panel:
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Co-editor Dr. Janice Graham, Free book draw winner: Dr. Pauline McKenzie Aucoin, co-editor Dr. Regna Darnell, contributor Dr. Ian Puppe, co-editor Dr. Christina Holmes, and contributor Dr. Udo Krautwurst
Christina Holmes 
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