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Making Policy Move: Towards a Politics of Translation and Assemblage
John Clarke
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Description for Making Policy Move: Towards a Politics of Translation and Assemblage
Paperback. Written by key people in the field, this timely and accessible book argues that treating policy's movement as an active process of 'translation', in which policies are interpreted, inflected and re-worked as they change location, is of critical importance for studying policy. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFF; JPH; JPP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 408.
Responding to increasing interest in the movement of policies between places, sites and settings, this timely book presents a critical alternative to approaches centred on ideas of policy transfer, dissemination or learning. Written by key people in the field, it argues that treating policy’s movement as an active process of ‘translation’, in which policies are interpreted, inflected and re-worked as they change location, is of critical importance for studying policy. The book provides an exciting and accessible analytical and methodological foundation for examining policy in this way and will be a valuable resource for those studying policy processes at both ... Read more
Responding to increasing interest in the movement of policies between places, sites and settings, this timely book presents a critical alternative to approaches centred on ideas of policy transfer, dissemination or learning. Written by key people in the field, it argues that treating policy’s movement as an active process of ‘translation’, in which policies are interpreted, inflected and re-worked as they change location, is of critical importance for studying policy. The book provides an exciting and accessible analytical and methodological foundation for examining policy in this way and will be a valuable resource for those studying policy processes at both ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bristol University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447313373
SKU
V9781447313373
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99-50
About John Clarke
Dave Bainton is a lecturer in Education at Goldsmiths College, University of London and works on relationships between education and development in the Global South. John Clarke is Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Open University. His work stretches across cultural studies, anthropology and policy studies. Noémi Lendvai is a Lecturer in Comparative Social ... Read more
Reviews for Making Policy Move: Towards a Politics of Translation and Assemblage
“A marvelous achievement, brilliantly theorizing policy as translation and assemblage in order to make visible the constructions, collaborations, contestations and contradictions that are often elided in mainstream accounts.“ Catherine Kingfisher, Professor of Anthropology, University of Lethbridge, Canada “This remarkable conversation between four policy studies academics shows what happens as policies and practices travel across time and space. Deeply collaborative ... Read more