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A Policy Travelogue

Autor Catherine Paelissier Kingfisher
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 14 sep 2013
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 are approached as sites of policy production that serve to transform it as well as reproduce it. As such, A Policy Travelogue provides an antidote to theorizations of policy as a-cultural, rational, and straightforwardly technical.
Catherine Kingfisher is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Lethbridge. She is editor of Western Welfare in Decline: Globalization and Women's Poverty (2002) and author of Women in the American Welfare Trap (1996). Her research focuses on policy, governance, personhood, gender, and, most recently, happiness and well-being.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781782380054
ISBN-10: 1782380051
Pagini: 230
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: BERGHAHN BOOKS INC

Notă biografică

Catherine Kingfisher is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Lethbridge. She is editor of Western Welfare in Decline: Globalization and Women's Poverty (2002) and author of Women in the American Welfare Trap (1996). Her research focuses on policy, governance, personhood, gender, neoliberalism, and globalization.

Cuprins

Acknowledgements 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 Conclusions: Tracing policy: process/power Appendix I: Key moments in state provisioning for poor mothers in Aotearoa/New Zealand Appendix II: Key moments in state provisioning for poor mothers in Canada and Alberta References

Recenzii

"[Kingfisher's] work is distinctive in taking policy from the minister to the client and service user. That is an achievement in itself, but to have done it in parallel studies of two countries is remarkable." * Richard Freeman, University of Edinburgh "This is a groundbreaking book - that represents a sophisticated assemblage of ideas to frame and drive the analysis of data gleaned through long-term engagement with each site - Using the well-delineated concepts of travel, assemblage, and translation, she explains the contradictory ways in which policy discourse is produced and through which traveling ideas 'touch down' in varied places and times and are selectively taken up by people in varied systems of social relations and grounded experiences." * Judith Goode, Temple University