The Social Life of Policy — Syllabus
Jennifer Hubbert
The study of policy deals with issues at the heart of anthropology such as institutions and power; ideology and discourse, identity and culture; and interactions between the global and the local, public and private, and bureaucracy and market. Understanding the dynamics of policy processes is ever more important because of greater global interconnectedness; decisions made in one place or arena increasingly have major effects of in other places and arenas.
The complexity of relations among individuals, networks, and entities—both governmental and nongovernmental—involved in formulating and implementing policy presents theoretical, methodological, and ethnical challenges for the researcher that are central to this course.
