Anthropology of Policy

Introduction 1 Policy: A new field of anthropology Part I Policy as language and power 2 Writing development policy and policy analysis plain or clear: On language, genre and power 3 The implications of ‘medical’, ‘gender in development’ and ‘culturalist’ discourses for HIV/AIDS policy in Africa 4 Patients’ bodies and discourses of power Part II Policy as cultural agent 5 Free to make the right choice? Gender equality policy in post-welfare Sweden 6 The cultural politics of populism: Celebrating Canadian national identity 7 Governing Europe: European Union audiovisual policy and the politics of Identity Part III Policy as political technology: Governmentality and subjectivity 8 Reform and resistance: A Norwegian illustration 9 Poverty in a ‘post-welfare’ landscape: Tenant management policies, self governance and the democratization of knowledge in Great Britain 10 Managing Americans: Policy and changes in the meanings of work and the Self. Epilogue 11 Anthropology and policy research: The view from Northern Ireland