02563nam 2200601 a 450 991078122350332120200909222613.00-85745-589-30-85745-117-010.1515/9780857451170(CKB)2550000000036944(EBL)717899(OCoLC)733040238(SSID)ssj0000540137(PQKBManifestationID)12193308(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000540137(PQKBWorkID)10582268(PQKB)10177264(MiAaPQ)EBC717899(DE-B1597)636025(DE-B1597)9780857451170(EXLCZ)99255000000003694420110120d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPolicy worlds anthropology and the analysis of contemporary power /edited by Cris Shore, Susan Wright and Davide PeròNew York Berghahn Books20111 online resource (350 p.)EASA series ;14Description based upon print version of record.0-85745-241-X 0-85745-116-2 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.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.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 nEASA series ;v. 14.Political anthropologyPolitical anthropology.306.2LB 49000BVBrvkShore Cris1959-253484Wright Susan1951-1514135Però Davide696592MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781223503321Policy worlds3749053UNINA