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 ASAP Education Committee created the following bibliography full of resources for the anthropology of policy. It includes general readings on the anthropology of policy as well as specialized topics such as: bureaucrats and bureaucracy; committees and...