Making Policy Move: Towards a Politics of Translation and Assemblage

Making Policy Move: Towards a Politics of Translation and Assemblage

by Dave Bainton (Author), Dave Bainton (Author), John Clarke (Author), Noémi Lendvai (Author), Paul Stubbs (Author)

Synopsis

Responding to increasing interest in the movement of policies between places, sites and settings, this timely book, written by key people in the field, 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.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 224
Edition: 1
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 01 Apr 2015

ISBN 10: 1447313364
ISBN 13: 9781447313366

Media Reviews
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 and intellectually generous, this book exemplifies how we might approach policy otherwise. Wendy Larner, Professor of Geography, University of Bristol
Policies clearly travel; and in today's world, such travel crosses borders-not only geographic, but conceptual, linguistic, and cultural-thereby requiring the hard, social and political work of translation, both literally and figuratively. Making Policy Move moves policy analysis forward theoretically and analytically, making it a thought-provoking book for scholars of public policies. Dvora Yanow, Visiting Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, Wageningen University.
Author Bio
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. Noemi Lendvai is a Lecturer in Comparative Social Policy at the University of Bristol and works on post-communist transformations and the Europeanisation of welfare. Paul Stubbs is a UK-born sociologist, currently a Senior Research Fellow in the Institute of Economics, Zagreb, Croatia whose work at the junctions of research, activism and advocacy/consultancy focuses on social policy in South East Europe