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Policy Worlds Cris Shore

Policy Worlds By Cris Shore

Policy Worlds by Cris Shore


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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 themselves...

Policy Worlds Summary

Policy Worlds: Anthropology and the Analysis of Contemporary Power by Cris Shore

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 new sets of relations. Anthropologists do not stand outside or above systems of governance but are themselves subject to the rhetoric and rationalities of policy. The analyses of policy worlds presented by the contributors to this volume open up new possibilities for understanding systems of knowledge and power and the positioning of academics within them.

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The editors break new ground in offering policy as one lifeline to anthropologists struggling to give shape to multi-sited ethnographyThis 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. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

The book offers both unsettling and highly inspirational reading material, especially for academics emerging from the worlds metropolises. It raises issues that are frequently overlooked and which represent unavoidable starting points for those doing anthropology today in the Antipodes and elsewhere. Social Anthropologie/Anthropologie sociale

This 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. H-Soz-u-Kult

The 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. Ethnic and Racial Studies

The currency of this book adds to the validity of argument being made by applied anthropologys advocates and supports their case in the ongoing applied/theoretical dividePolicy Worlds is a valuable addition to this emerging field of anthropology. Anthropological Forum: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Comparative Sociology

An outstanding contribution to the anthropological understanding of public policy A very polished, coherent project, ably edited. Susan Greenhalgh, University of California, Irvine

The 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. Don Brenneis, University of California, Santa Cruz

About Cris Shore

Cris Shore is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. Conceptualising Policy: Technologies of Governance and the Politics of Visibility
Cris Shore and Susan Wright

Section I: Studying Policy: Methods, Paradigms, Perspectives

Introduction
Susan Wright

Chapter 2. Illuminating the Apparatus: Steps toward a Nonlocal Ethnography of Global Governance
Greg Feldman, University of British Columbia

Chapter 3. Politics and Ethics: Ethnographies of Expert Knowledge and Professional Identities
David Mosse, SOAS, London

Chapter 4. Peopling Policy: on Conflicting Subjectivities of Fee-Paying Students
Gritt B. Nielsen, Aarhus University

Chapter 5. Studying through: a Strategy for Studying Political Transformations. Or Sex, Lies and British Politics
Susan Wright and Sue Reinhold (North BerkeleyInvestment Partners)

Chapter 6. What was Neo-liberalism and what Comes Next? The Transformation of Citizenship in the Law-and-Order State
Susan Hyatt, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Section II: Studying Governance: Policy as a Window onto the Modern State

Introduction
Cris Shore

Chapter 7. Intimate Knowledge and the Politics of Policy Convergence: The World Bank and Social Security Reform in Mexico
Tara Schwegler, University of Chicago

Chapter 8. Shadow Governing: What the Neocon Core Reveals About Power and Influence in America
Janine Wedel, George Mason University

Chapter 9. Espionage, Policy and the Art of Government: The British Secret Services and the War on Iraq
Cris Shore

Chapter 10. The (Un)making of Policy in the Shadow of the World Bank: Infrastructure Development, Urban Resettlement and the Cunning State in India
Shalini Randeriaand Ciara Grunder, University of Zurich

Chapter 11. Swedens National Pension System as a Political Technology
Anette Nyqvist, Stockholm University

Section III: Subjects of Policy: Construction and Contestation

Introduction
Davide Pero

Chapter 12. The Case of Scanzano: Raison dEtat and the Reasons for Rebellion
Dorothy Louise Zinn, Universita degli Studi della Basilicata

Chapter 13. Migrants Practices of Citizenship and Policy Change
Davide Pero

Chapter 14. Integration Policy and Ethnic Minority Associations
Clarissa Kugelberg Upsala University

Chapter 15. The Elephant in the Room. Multi-stakeholder Dialogue on Agricultural Biotechnology in the Food and Agriculture Organisation
Birgit Muller, LAIOS-CNRS Paris

Afterword

Chapter 16. A policy ethnographers reading of policy anthropology
Dvora Yanow, Vrije University

Notes on Contributors
Ends
Index

Additional information

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Policy Worlds: Anthropology and the Analysis of Contemporary Power by Cris Shore
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Berghahn Books
2011-04-01
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