ISBN:
0415132207
,
0415132215
,
9780203451038
,
9780415132206
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (237 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
European Association of Social Anthropologists
Parallel Title:
Print version Anthropology of Policy : Perspectives on Governance and Power
DDC:
320/.6
Keywords:
Policy sciences
;
Social policy
;
Anthropology Methodology
Abstract:
This book argues that policy has become an increasingly central concept in the organisation of contemporary societies and that it now impinges on all areas of life so that it is virtually impossible to ignore or escape its influence
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Half-Title; Series Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Policy: A New Field of Anthropology; 2 Writing Development Policy and Policy Analysis Plain or Clear: On Language, Genre and Power; 3 The Implications of 'Medical', 'Gender in Developmen' and 'Culturalist' Discourses for HIV/AIDS Policy in Africa; 4 Patients' Bodies and Discourses of Power; 5 Free to make the Right Choice?; 6 The Cultural Politics of Populism: Celebrating Canadian National Identity
Description / Table of Contents:
7 Governing Europe: European Union Audiovisual Policy and the Politics of Identity8 Reform and Resistance: A Norwegian Illustration; 9 Poverty in a 'Post-Welfare' Landscape: Tenant Management Policies, Self-Government and the Democratization of Knowledge in Great Britain; 10 Managing Americans: Policy and Changes in the Meanings of Work and the Self; Epilogue; 11 Anthropology and Policy Research: The View from Northern Ireland; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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