Policy worlds anthropology and analysis of contemporary power

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 gover...

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Hauptverfasser: Shore, Cris, Wright, Susan, Però, Davide
Format: E-Book Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New York Berghahn Books 2011
Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Ausgabe:1st ed.
Schriftenreihe:EASA
Schlagworte:
Anthropology
Applied Anthropology
Policy sciences
Political anthropology
Political Science
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General
SOCIAL SCIENCE
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
Sociology
Theory and Methodology
Sociology
Theory and Methodology
Applied Anthropology
ISBN:9780857451170, 0857451170, 9780857451163, 0857451162, 085745241X, 9780857452412
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and indexes
ISBN:9780857451170
0857451170
9780857451163
0857451162
085745241X
9780857452412
DOI:10.1515/9780857451170