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 of everyday life. An instrument of modern government, policy and its processes provide an analytical window into the systems of governance t...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Berghahn Books, Inc.,
2011.
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| Series: | EASA, vol. 14.
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| Summary: | 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 of everyday life. An instrument of modern government, policy and its processes provide an analytical window into the 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (350 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780857451170 0857451170 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Source of description: Print version record. |