Constructing Non-monetary Social Indicators: An Analysis of the Effects of Interpretive Communities
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Based on two contrasting experiences of the construction of non-monetized social indicators carried out atdifferent levels (local and international), this article examines the effects of interpretive communities on indicators,on collective processes, and on social and scientific context–particularly that of information systems.The first initiative we examine is the Social Progress Index (SPI), developed from within the Social ProgressImperative and used at the international, European and local levels. The second initiative is the development of adashboard of sustainable territorial wellbeing indicators (IBEST) for use across the Grenoble metropolitan area.We present a framework of the effects of interpretive communities. The application of this framework in order toanalyze the two initiatives studied reveals the importance of interpretive communities in shaping the scientificand political agenda that is promoted by collective experiences involved in the development of alternative indicators.Rather than specific and circumscribed times for participation, it is the creation of spaces that are notcircumscribed in time at the intersection of communities that appear to be most conducive to giving substance todeliberative ecological.
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