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Policy Worlds

Anthropology and the Analysis of Contemporary Power
EASA Series, Band 14 1. Aufl.

von: Cris Shore, Susan Wright, Davide Però
38,99 €
Verlag:	Berghahn Books
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	01.04.2011
ISBN/EAN:	9780857451170
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	348

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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.

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