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.
Transforming School Food Politics around the World Edited by Jennifer E. Gaddis and Sarah A. Robert Foreword by Silvia Federici How to successfully challenge and transform public school-food programs to emphasize care, justice, and sustainability, with insights from...
Unruly Domestication: Poverty, Family, and Statecraft in Urban Peru Kristin Skrabut, May 2024 How the international war on poverty shapes identities, relationships, politics, and urban space in Peru. Unruly Domestication investigates how Peru’s ongoing,...