Arguing that policy has become an increasingly central concept and instrument in the organisation of contemporary societies and that it now impinges on all areas of life so that it is virtually impossible to ignore or escape its influence, this book argues that the study of policy leads straight into issues at the heart of anthropology.
Author(s): Cris Shore, Susan Wright
Series: European Association of Social Anthropologists
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 1997
Language: English
Pages: 312
Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Series Title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Contributors......Page 9
Preface and Acknowledgements......Page 12
Introduction......Page 13
1 Policy: A New Field of Anthropology......Page 15
Part I Policy as Language and Power......Page 44
2 Writing Development Policy and Policy Analysis Plain or Clear: On Language, Genre and Power......Page 46
3 The Implications of 'Medical', 'Gender in Developmen' and 'Culturalist' Discourses for HIV/AIDS Policy in Africa......Page 58
4 Patients' Bodies and Discourses of Power......Page 80
Part II Policy as Cultural Agent......Page 93
5 Free to make the Right Choice?......Page 95
6 The Cultural Politics of Populism: Celebrating Canadian National Identity......Page 116
7 Governing Europe: European Union Audiovisual Policy and the Politics of Identity......Page 138
Part III Policy as Political Technology: Governmentality and Subjectivity......Page 160
8 Reform and Resistance: A Norwegian Illustration......Page 162
9 Poverty in a 'Post-Welfare' Landscape: Tenant Management Policies, Self-Government and the Democratization of Knowledge in Great Britain......Page 178
10 Managing Americans: Policy and Changes in the Meanings of Work and the Self......Page 195
Epilogue......Page 211
11 Anthropology and Policy Research: The View from Northern Ireland......Page 213
Index......Page 229
