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Title Policy worlds : anthropology and the analysis of contemporary power / edited by Cris Shore, Susan Wright and Davide Per.̣
Published Oxford : Berghahn, 2011
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Description 1 online resource (vi, 343 pages) : illustrations
Series EASA series ; v. 14
EASA series ; v. 14
Contents Introduction. Ch. 1. Conceptualizing policy : technologies of governance and the politics of visibility / Cris Shore and Susan Wright -- Section I. Studying policy : methods, paradigms, perspectives. -- Introduction / Susan Wright -- ch. 2. Illuminating the apparatus : steps toward a nonlocal ethnography of global governance / Gregory Feldman -- ch. 3. Politics and ethics : ethnographies of expert knowledge and professional identities / David Mosse -- ch. 4. Peopling policy : on conflicting subjectivities of fee-paying students / Gritt B. Nielson -- ch. 5. 'Studying through' : a strategy for studying politcal transformation, or, Sex Lies and British politics / Susan Wright and Sue Reinhold -- ch. 6. What was neoliberalism and what comes next? : The transformation of citizenship in the law-and-order state / Susan Brin Hyatt
Section II. Studying governance : policy as a window onto the modern state. -- Introduction / Chris Shore -- ch. 7. Intimate knowledge and the politics of policy convergence : the World Bank and Social Security reform in Mexico / Tara Schwegler -- ch. 8. Shadow governing : what the Neocon Core reveals about power and influence in America / Janine R. Wedel -- ch. 9. Espionage, policy, and the art of government : the British Secret Services and the War on Iraq / Cris Shore -- ch. 10. The (un)making of policy in the shadow of the World Bank : infrastructure development, urban resettlement and the cunning state in India / Shalini Randeria and Ciara Grunder -- ch. 11. Sweden's national pension system as a political technology / Annette Nyqvist
Section III. Subjects of policy : construction and contestation. -- Introduction / Davide Però -- ch. 12. The case of Scanzano : raison d'état and the reasons for rebellion / Dorothy Louise Zinn -- ch. 13. Migrants' practices of citizenship and policy change / Davide Però -- ch. 14. Integration policy and ethnic minority associations / Clarissa Kugelberg -- ch. 15. The elephant in the room : multistakeholder dialogue on agricultural biotechnology in the Food and Agriculture Organization / Birgit Müller. -- Afterword. Ch. 16. A policy ethnographer's reading of policy anthropology / Dvora Yanow
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Political anthropology.
Policy sciences.
Form Electronic book
Author Per, ̣ Davide
Shore, Cris, 1959-
Wright, Susan, 1951-
ISBN 0857451170
9780857451170