ISBN:
0-415-13221-5
,
978-0-415-13221-3
,
0-415-13220-7 /Hb.
,
978-0-415-13220-6 /Hb.
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 294 Seiten
Edition:
First published
Series Statement:
European Association of Social Anthropologists Series
Keywords:
Anthropologie, politische Anthropologie, soziale
;
Politik
;
Macht
;
Machtverhältnis
;
Selbstbild
;
Individuum und Gesellschaft
;
Sozialpolitik
;
Europa
;
Schweden
;
Norwegen
;
Großbritannien
;
Nord Irland
;
Kanada
;
Afrika
;
HIV
;
Tagungsbericht
Abstract:
Anthropology of Policy argues that policy has become an increasingly central organizing principle in contemporary societies, shaping the way we live, act and think. Policies create new categories of individuals such as 'subject', 'citizen', 'professional', 'national', 'criminal' and 'deviant', Policies also influence the way individuals constuct themselves as subjects, acting both on and through people as free and rational agents. If policy is a tool of government, it is equally a tool for studying government, and for tracing the links beween different sites, agents and levels within the complex policy process. Anthropology of Policy examines the merging structures and discourses through which policy operates to introduce new neo-liberal systems of government and new forms of power. (Umschlagtext)
Description / Table of Contents:
Contributors -- Preface and acknowledgement -- Introduction -- 1 Policy: a new field of anthropology / Cris Shore and Susan Wright -- Part I Policy as language and power -- 2 Writing development policy and policy analysis plain or clear: on language, genre and power / Raymond Apthorpe -- 3 The implications of 'medical', 'gender in development' and 'culturalist' discourses for HIV/AIDS policy in Africa / Gill Seidel and Laurent Vidal -- 4 Patients' bodies and discourses of power / Helle Ploug Hansen -- Part II Policy as cultural agent -- 5 Free to make the right choice? Gender equality policy in post-welfare Sweden / Annika Rabo -- 6 The cultural politics of populism: celebrating Canadian national identity / Eva Mackey -- 7 Governing Europe: European Union audiovisual policy and the politics of identity / Cris Shore -- Part III Policy as political technology: governmentality and subjectivity -- 8 Reform and resistance: a Norwegian illustration / Halvard Vike -- 9 Poverty in a 'post-welfare' landscape: tenant management policies, self-governance and the democratization of knowledge in Great Britain / Susan Brin Hyatt -- 10 Managing Americans: policy and changes in the meaning of work and the self / Emily Martin -- Epilogue -- Anthropology and policy research: the view from Northern Ireland / Hastings Donnan and Graham McFarlane -- Index
Note:
"The origins of this edited collection of essays began with a workshop organized by Anthropology in Action at the 1994 Conference of the EASA held in Oslo" (Preface and Acknowledgements)
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