Policy worlds : anthropology and the analysis of contemporary power /

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 gover...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Shore, Cris, 1959- (Editor ), Wright, Susan, 1951- (Editor ), Però, Davide (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2011.
Colección:EASA series ; v. 14.
Temas:
Political anthropology.
Anthropologie politique.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > General.
Political anthropology
Politische Anthropologie
Regierung
Politische Anthropologie.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (vi, 343 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9780857451170
0857451170

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