Making Food Count: Expert Knowledge and Global Technologies of Government
Author(s)
Ilcan, Suzan; Phillips, Lynne
Abstract
A wide variety of international agencies have initiated global programs and rationalities to manage social and economic conduct. Through a focus on the United Nations and its Food and Agriculture Organization, this paper examines the global management of food and agriculture within what we can the global technologies of government. In this analysis, we draw on the insights of Nikolas Rose on expertise and government, and on a range of studies on statistical calculation and globalization. We argue that professional forms of expert knowledge, such as those based on scientific classification and calculation, facilitated new spaces of intervention and new knowledges for social transformation.
