Policy Worlds

Anthropology and Analysis of Contemporary Power
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-85745-116-3
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 348 Seiten, HC gerader Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 660 g

Reihe: EASA Series

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 sets of relations. Anthropologists do not stand outside or above systems of governance but are themselves subject to the rhetoric and rationalities of policy. The analyses of policy worlds presented by the contributors to this volume open up new possibilities for understanding systems of knowledge and power and the positioning of academics within them.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Per, Davide

Shore, Cris

Shore, Chris

Wright, Susan

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Chapter 1. Conceptualising Policy: Technologies of Governance and the Politics of Visibility

Cris Shore and Susan Wright

Section I: Studying Policy: Methods, Paradigms, Perspectives

Introduction

Susan Wright

Chapter 2. Illuminating the Apparatus: Steps toward a Nonlocal Ethnography of Global Governance

Greg Feldman, University of British Columbia

Chapter 3. Politics and Ethics: Ethnographies of Expert Knowledge and Professional Identities

David Mosse, SOAS, London

Chapter 4. Peopling Policy: on Conflicting Subjectivities of Fee-Paying Students

Gritt B. Nielsen, Aarhus University

Chapter 5. Studying through”: a Strategy for Studying Political Transformations. Or Sex, Lies and British Politics

Susan Wright and Sue Reinhold (North BerkeleyInvestment Partners)

Chapter 6. What was Neo-liberalism and what Comes Next? The Transformation of  Citizenship in the Law-and-Order State

Susan Hyatt, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Section II: Studying Governance: Policy as a Window onto the Modern State

Introduction

Cris Shore

Chapter 7. Intimate Knowledge and the Politics of Policy Convergence: The World Bank and Social Security Reform in Mexico

Tara Schwegler, University of Chicago

Chapter 8. Shadow Governing: What the Neocon Core Reveals About Power and Influence in America

Janine Wedel, George Mason University

Chapter 9. Espionage, Policy and the Art of Government: The British Secret Services and the War on Iraq

Cris Shore

Chapter 10. The (Un)making of Policy in the Shadow of the World Bank: Infrastructure Development, Urban Resettlement and the Cunning State in India

Shalini Randeriaand Ciara Grunder, University of Zurich

Chapter 11. Sweden’s National Pension System as a Political Technology

Anette Nyqvist, Stockholm University

Section III: Subjects of Policy: Construction and Contestation

Introduction   

Davide Però

Chapter 12. The Case of Scanzano: Raison d’Etat and the Reasons for Rebellion

Dorothy Louise Zinn, Università degli Studi della Basilicata

Chapter 13. Migrants’ Practices of Citizenship and Policy Change

Davide Però

Chapter 14. Integration Policy and Ethnic Minority Associations

Clarissa Kugelberg Upsala University

Chapter 15. The Elephant in the Room. Multi-stakeholder Dialogue on Agricultural Biotechnology in the Food and Agriculture Organisation

Birgit Müller, LAIOS-CNRS Paris

Afterword

Chapter 16. A policy ethnographer’s reading of policy anthropology

Dvora Yanow, Vrije University

Notes on Contributors

Ends

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Wright, Susan
Susan Wright is Professor of Educational Anthropology at the Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Shore, Cris
Cris Shore is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Per, Davide
Davide Però is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Nottingham.

Cris Shore is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.