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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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Shore, Cris
Other Authors: Wright, Susan, Però, Davide
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, Inc., 2011.
Series:EASA, vol. 14.
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505 0 |a Policy Worlds; Contents; Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Conceptualising Policy: Technologies of Governance and the Politics of Visibility; Section I -- Studying Policy: Methods, Paradigms, Perspectives -- Introduction; Chapter 2 -- Illuminating the Apparatus: Steps toward a Nonlocal Ethnography of Global Governance; Chapter 3 -- Politics and Ethics: Ethnographies of Expert Knowledge and Professional Identities1; Chapter 4 -- Peopling Policy: On Conflicting Subjectivities of Fee-Paying Students. 
505 8 |a Chapter 5 -- 'Studying Through': A Strategy for Studying Political Transformation. Or Sex, Lies and British PoliticsChapter 6 -- What was Neoliberalism and What Comes Next? The Transformation of Citizenship in the Law-and-Order State; Section II -- Studying Governance: Policy as a Window onto the Modern State -- Introduction; Chapter 7 -- Intimate Knowledge and the Politics of Policy Convergence: The World Bank and Social Security Reform in Mexico; Chapter 8 -- Shadow Governing: What the Neocon Core Reveals about Power and Influence in America1. 
505 8 |a Chapter 9 -- Espionage, Policy and the Art of Government: The British Secret Services and the War on IraqChapter 10 -- The (Un)Making of Policy in the Shadow of the World Bank: Infrastructure Development, Urban Resettlement and the Cunning State in India; Chapter 11 -- Sweden's National Pension System as a Political Technology; Section III -- Subjects of Policy: Construction and Contestation -- Introduction; Chapter 12 -- The Case of Scanzano: Raison d'État and the Reasons for a Rebellion; Chapter 13 -- Migrants' Practices of Citizenship and Policy Change. 
505 8 |a Chapter 14 -- Integration Policy and Ethnic Minority AssociationsChapter 15 -- The Elephant in the Room: Multistakeholder Dialogue on Agricultural Biotechnology in the Food and Agriculture Organization1; Afterword -- Chapter 16 -- A Policy Ethnographer's Reading of Policy Anthropology; Notes on Contributors; Index -- Index of Names; Index of Subjects. 
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