ISBN:
0415132207
,
0415132215
,
9780203451038
,
9780415132206
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (237 p)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Serie:
European Association of Social Anthropologists
Paralleltitel:
Print version Anthropology of Policy : Perspectives on Governance and Power
DDC:
320/.6
Schlagwort(e):
Policy sciences
;
Social policy
;
Anthropology Methodology
Kurzfassung:
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
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
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
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
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
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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