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UNINA9910781223503321 |
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Titolo |
Policy worlds : anthropology and the analysis of contemporary power / / edited by Cris Shore, Susan Wright and Davide Però |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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New York, : Berghahn Books, 2011 |
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ISBN |
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0-85745-589-3 |
0-85745-117-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (350 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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ShoreCris <1959-> |
WrightSusan <1951-> |
PeròDavide |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 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 |
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