@inbook{5af0c1cfd7b2440ca40835e86892cabe,
title = "Indexal thinking: Reconfiguring global topologies for market-based intervention",
abstract = "Through the example of a “regulatory ranking” – an index produced with the aim to regulate the pharmaceutical market by pushing companies in the direction of providing greater access to medicine in developing countries – this chapter focuses on indexing and ranking as infrastructural processes which inscribe global problem spaces as unfolding actionable territories for market intervention. It foregrounds the “Indexal thinking” which structures and informs regulatory rankings – their aspiration to align the interests of different stakeholders and to entice competition among the ranked companies. The authors detail the infrastructural work through which such ambitions are enacted, detailing processes of infrastructural layering/collage and patchwork through which analysts naturalize/denaturalize various contested categories in the ranking{\textquoteright}s territory. They reflect on the consequences of such attempts at reconfiguring global topologies for the problems these governance initiatives seek to address.",
keywords = "Access to medicine, Global, Infrastructure, Ranking, Territorialization, Topology",
author = "Afshin Mehrpouya and Rita Samiolo",
year = "2019",
month = aug,
day = "7",
doi = "10.1108/s0733-558X20190000062009",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781787695580",
volume = "62",
series = "Research in the Sociology of Organizations",
publisher = "Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.",
pages = "145--168",
editor = "Martin Kornberger and Geoffrey Bowker and Julia Elyachar and Andrea Mennicken and Peter Miller and {Randa Nucho}, Joanne and Neil Pollock",
booktitle = "Thinking Infrastructures",
address = "United Kingdom",
edition = "1",
}
