ISBN:
9780857451163
,
9780857452412
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (vi, 343 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
EASA series 14
Parallel Title:
Print version Policy Worlds : Anthropology and Analysis of Contemporary Power
DDC:
306.2
Keywords:
Political anthropology
Abstract:
There are few areas of society today that remain outside the ambit of policy processes, and likewise policy making has progressively reached into the structure and fabric of everyday life. An instrument of modern government, policy and its processes provide an analytical window into systems of governance themselves, opening up ways to study power and the construction of regimes of truth. This volume argues that policies are not simply coercive, constraining or confined to static texts; rather, they are productive, continually contested and able to create new social and semantic spaces and new
Description / Table of Contents:
Policy Worlds; Contents; Introduction - Chapter 1 - Conceptualising Policy: Technologies of Governance and the Politics of Visibility; Section I - Studying Policy: Methods, Paradigms, Perspectives - Introduction; Chapter 2 - Illuminating the Apparatus: Steps toward a Nonlocal Ethnography of Global Governance; Chapter 3 - Politics and Ethics: Ethnographies of Expert Knowledge and Professional Identities1; Chapter 4 - Peopling Policy: On Conflicting Subjectivities of Fee-Paying Students
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 5 - 'Studying Through': A Strategy for Studying Political Transformation. Or Sex, Lies and British PoliticsChapter 6 - What was Neoliberalism and What Comes Next? The Transformation of Citizenship in the Law-and-Order State; Section II - Studying Governance: Policy as a Window onto the Modern State - Introduction; Chapter 7 - Intimate Knowledge and the Politics of Policy Convergence: The World Bank and Social Security Reform in Mexico; Chapter 8 - Shadow Governing: What the Neocon Core Reveals about Power and Influence in America1
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 9 - Espionage, Policy and the Art of Government: The British Secret Services and the War on IraqChapter 10 - The (Un)Making of Policy in the Shadow of the World Bank: Infrastructure Development, Urban Resettlement and the Cunning State in India; Chapter 11 - Sweden's National Pension System as a Political Technology; Section III - Subjects of Policy: Construction and Contestation - Introduction; Chapter 12 - The Case of Scanzano: Raison d'État and the Reasons for a Rebellion; Chapter 13 - Migrants' Practices of Citizenship and Policy Change
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 14 - Integration Policy and Ethnic Minority AssociationsChapter 15 - The Elephant in the Room: Multistakeholder Dialogue on Agricultural Biotechnology in the Food and Agriculture Organization1; Afterword - Chapter 16 - A Policy Ethnographer's Reading of Policy Anthropology; Notes on Contributors; Index - Index of Names; Index of Subjects
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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