This series explores policy through anthropological methodologies to better understand how policies work as instruments of political intervention and social change. What new kinds of actors, subjects, and social spaces do policies create, and how are they used to manage populations? Can policy analysis shed light on wider transformations of governance and power? How can ethnography capture critical dimensions of policymaking, and the cultural worlds of policymakers themselves? For more on the series, click below.
The Anthropology of Policy Emerges The Association for the Anthropology of Policy Judi Pajo and Theodore Powers July 24, 2017 The Association for the Anthropology of Policy (ASAP) promotes the anthropological study of policy, including makings, workings, contexts,...