Policy worlds : anthropology and the analysis of contemporary power / edited by Cris Shore, Susan Wright and Davide Pero.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shore, Cris, 1959-

Wright, Susan, 1951-

Però, Davide.

Series:

EASA series ; v. 14.

EASA series ; 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2011.

Language Note:

English

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 and fabric of everyday life. An instrument of modern government, policy and its processes provide an analytical window into 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 n

Contents:

section 1. Studying policy : methods, paradigms, perspectives

section 2. Studying governance : policy as a window onto the modern state

section 3. Subjects of policy : construction and contestation.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-80758-408-9

0-85745-589-3

0-85745-117-0

OCLC:

733040238