Book review: Data practices: making up a European people by Evelyn Ruppert and Stephan Scheel

In Data Practices: Making Up a European People – available open access – Evelyn Ruppert and Stephan Scheel explore how statisticians and policymakers use statistical methods and data practices to ‘enact’ or ‘make up’ their data subjects: in this case, the people of Europe. The book’s detailed case studies and thoughtful consideration of quantitative data production from the perspective of the data subject have earned it pride of place on the bookshelf of reviewer Mariel McKone Leonard. Data Practices: Making Up a European People. Evelyn Ruppert and Stephan Scheel. Goldsmiths Press. London. 2021.