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Title Anthropology of policy : critical perspectives on governance and power / edited by Cris Shore and Susan Wright
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 1997

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 W'PONDS  320.6 Sho/Aop  DUE 21-05-24
Description xiv, 294 pages ; 23 cm
Series European Association of Social Anthropologists
European Association of Social Anthropologists (Series)
Contents 1. Policy: A new field of anthropology / Cris Shore and Susan Wright -- 2. Writing development policy and policy analysis plain or clear: On language, genre and power / Raymond Apthorpe -- 3. The implications of 'medical', 'gender in development' and 'culturalist' discourses for HIV/AIDS policy in Africa / Gill Seidel and Laurent Vidal -- 4. Patients' bodies and discourses of power / Helle Ploug Hansen -- 5. Free to make the right choice? Gender equality policy in post-welfare Sweden / Annika Rabo -- 6. The cultural politics of populism: Celebrating Canadian national identity / Eva Mackey -- 7. Governing Europe: European Union audiovisual policy and the politics of identity / Cris Shore -- 8. Reform and resistance: A Norwegian illustration / Halvard Vike -- 9. Poverty in a 'post-welfare' landscape: Tenant management policies, self-governance and the democratization of knowledge in Great Britain / Susan Brin Hyatt
10. Managing Americans: Policy and changes in the meanings of work and the self / Emily Martin -- 11. Anthropology and policy research: The view from Northern Ireland / Hastings Donnan and Graham McFarlane
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
SUBJECT Commentary (C.D. Howe Institute). Social policy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2009184526
Subject Anthropology -- Methodology.
Policy sciences.
Political planning.
Social policy.
Author Shore, Cris, 1959-
Wright, Susan, 1951-
LC no. 96051859
ISBN 0415132207
0415132215