ISBN:
9780857451163
,
9780857451170 (Sekundärausgabe)
Language:
English
Pages:
350 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9780857451170
Edition:
[Online-Ausg.]
Series Statement:
EASA, vol. 14
DDC:
306.2
Keywords:
Politische Anthropologie
;
Gegenwart
;
Fallstudiensammlung
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 ...
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Online-Ausg.:
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