{"product_id":"policy-worlds-anthropology-and-analysis-of-contemporary-power-14-easa-series-14-9780857451163","title":"Policy Worlds Anthropology and Analysis of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere 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...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003eThe editors break new ground in offering policy as one lifeline to anthropologists struggling to give shape to multi-sited ethnography…\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis book achieves what it sets out to do. These accounts show that policy is good to think with, that theories of  governmentality should encompass contestation to be convincing, and that ‘policy’ deserves further study.\u003c\/em\u003e”\u003cstrong\u003e · Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“The book offers both unsettling and highly inspirational reading material, especially for academics emerging from the world’s metropolises. It raises issues that are frequently overlooked and which represent unavoidable starting points for those doing anthropology today in the Antipodes and elsewhere.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e · Social Anthropologie\/Anthropologie sociale\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003eThis volume offers an indispensable point of reference for any methodological and theoretical planning and execution of cultural- and social-anthropological research into the fields of politics and policy.\u003c\/em\u003e”\u003cstrong\u003e · H-Soz-u-Kult\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t“\u003cem\u003eThe value of the very idea of focusing on policy processes rather than on politics lies in that it is at the level of policy that a more comprehensive light can be shed on the always less ‘local’ and always more multifarious, subtle, flexible and dissimulating ways in which contemporary power shapes our worlds. This is why, after reading this book,... one recognizes the bounded coherence of its highly dissimilar contexts and ethnographic stories.\u003c\/em\u003e”\u003cstrong\u003e · Ethnic and Racial Studies\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t “\u003cem\u003eThe currency of this book adds to the validity of argument being made by applied anthropology’s advocates and supports their case in the ongoing applied\/theoretical divide…\u003c\/em\u003ePolicy Worlds \u003cem\u003eis a valuable addition to this emerging field of anthropology.\u003c\/em\u003e”\u003cstrong\u003e · Anthropological Forum: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Comparative Sociology\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“An outstanding contribution to the anthropological understanding of public policy… A very polished, coherent project, ably edited.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e · Susan Greenhalgh\u003c\/strong\u003e, University of California, Irvine\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe volume represents an emergent subfield of anthropology coming of age in some ways; it will teach very well indeed and will certainly prove an invaluable book to think with and through… I was consistently impressed by the quality, coherence, and interest of the articles in themselves. Each was substantively fascinating, methodologically thought-provoking, and clearly linked to the others\u003c\/em\u003e.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e · Don Brenneis\u003c\/strong\u003e, University of California, Santa Cruz\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e Conceptualising Policy: Technologies of Governance and the Politics of Visibility\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eCris Shore\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003e Susan Wright\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eSection I: Studying Policy: Methods, Paradigms, Perspectives\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSusan Wright\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Illuminating the Apparatus: Steps toward a Nonlocal Ethnography of Global Governance\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eGreg Feldman\u003c\/em\u003e, University of British Columbia\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e Politics and Ethics: Ethnographies of Expert Knowledge and Professional Identities\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDavid Mosse\u003c\/em\u003e, SOAS, London\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e Peopling Policy: on Conflicting Subjectivities of Fee-Paying Students\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eGritt B. Nielsen\u003c\/em\u003e, Aarhus University\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e Studying through”: a Strategy for Studying Political Transformations. Or Sex, Lies and British Politics\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSusan Wright\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSue Reinhold\u003c\/em\u003e (North BerkeleyInvestment Partners)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e What was Neo-liberalism and what Comes Next? The Transformation of  Citizenship in the Law-and-Order State\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSusan \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eHyatt\u003c\/em\u003e, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eSection II: Studying Governance: Policy as a Window onto the Modern State\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eCris Shore\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7. \u003c\/strong\u003eIntimate Knowledge and the Politics of Policy Convergence: The World Bank and Social Security Reform in Mexico\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eTara Schwegler\u003c\/em\u003e, University of Chicago\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8. \u003c\/strong\u003eShadow Governing: What the Neocon Core Reveals About Power and Influence in America\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJanine Wedel\u003c\/em\u003e, George Mason University\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9. \u003c\/strong\u003eEspionage, Policy and the Art of Government: The British Secret Services and the War on Iraq\u003cbr\u003e \tCris Shore\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/strong\u003e The (Un)making of Policy in the Shadow of the World Bank: Infrastructure Development, Urban Resettlement and the Cunning State in India\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eShalini Randeria\u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eCiara Grunder\u003c\/em\u003e, University of Zurich\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/strong\u003e Sweden’s National Pension System as a Political Technology\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAnette Nyqvist\u003c\/em\u003e, Stockholm University\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eSection III: Subjects of Policy: Construction and Contestation \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/strong\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDavide Però\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Case of Scanzano: Raison d’Etat and the Reasons for Rebellion\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDorothy Louise Zinn\u003c\/em\u003e, Università degli Studi della Basilicata\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 13. \u003c\/strong\u003eMigrants’ Practices of Citizenship and Policy Change\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDavide Però\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 14. \u003c\/strong\u003eIntegration Policy and Ethnic Minority Associations\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eClarissa Kugelberg \u003c\/em\u003e Upsala University\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 15. \u003c\/strong\u003eThe Elephant in the Room. Multi-stakeholder Dialogue on Agricultural Biotechnology in the Food and Agriculture Organisation\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eBirgit Müller\u003c\/em\u003e, LAIOS-CNRS Paris\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eAfterword\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 16.\u003c\/strong\u003e A policy ethnographer’s reading of policy anthropology\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDvora Yanow\u003c\/em\u003e, Vrije University\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tNotes on Contributors\u003cbr\u003e \tEnds\u003cbr\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038902616407,"sku":"9780857451163","price":96.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780857451163.jpg?v=1750941875","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/policy-worlds-anthropology-and-analysis-of-contemporary-power-14-easa-series-14-9780857451163","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}