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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813035303321

Autore

Kingfisher Catherine Pélissier

Titolo

A policy travelogue : tracing welfare reform in Aotearoa/New Zealand and Canada / / Catherine Kingfisher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2013

ISBN

1-78238-006-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 p.)

Disciplina

362.5

362.5568097123

Soggetti

Public welfare - New Zealand

Public welfare - Alberta

Social service - New Zealand

Social service - Alberta

New Zealand Social policy

Alberta Social policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction - Tracing Policy: Translation and Assemblage; Chapter 1 - The New Zealand Model at Home and Abroad; Chapter 2 - Producing Policy in Welfare Offices; Chapter 3 - Reading Through Welfare Policy in Community Service Agencies; Chapter 4 - Working with Policy in ""Real Life"": Welfare Mothers' Engagements; Conclusion - Tracing Policy: Process/Power; Appendix I - Key Moments in State Provisioning for Poor Mothers in Aotearoa/New Zealand; Appendix 2 - Key Moments in State Provisioning for Poor Mothers in Canada and Alberta; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

An ethnography of the development and travel of the New Zealand model of neoliberal welfare reform, this study explores the social life of policy, which is one of process, motion, and change. Different actors, including not only policy élites but also providers and recipients, engage with it in light of their own resources and knowledge. Drawing on two analytic frameworks of the contemporary anthropology of policy-translation and assemblage-Kingfisher situates policy as an artifact and architect of cultural meaning, as well as a site of power



struggles. All points of engagement with policy ar