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Policy Worlds
Anthropology and the Analysis of Contemporary Power
Taschenbuch von Susan Wright
Sprache: Englisch

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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.
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.
Über den Autor

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

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

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780857452412
ISBN-10: 085745241X
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion: Wright, Susan
Hersteller: Berghahn Books
Maße: 229 x 152 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: Susan Wright
Erscheinungsdatum: 18.04.2011
Gewicht: 0,508 kg
Artikel-ID: 106954787
Über den Autor

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

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

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780857452412
ISBN-10: 085745241X
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion: Wright, Susan
Hersteller: Berghahn Books
Maße: 229 x 152 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: Susan Wright
Erscheinungsdatum: 18.04.2011
Gewicht: 0,508 kg
Artikel-ID: 106954787
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