Making Policy Move
Towards a Politics of Translation and Assemblage
By John Clarke, Dave Bainton, Noémi Lendvai and Paul Stubbs
Published
Apr 15, 2015Page count
224 pagesISBN
978-1447313373Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Policy PressPublished
Apr 15, 2015Page count
224 pagesISBN
978-1447313366Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Policy PressPublished
Apr 15, 2015Page count
224 pagesISBN
978-1447313397Imprint
Policy PressPublished
Apr 15, 2015Page count
224 pagesISBN
978-1447313403Imprint
Policy Press
Making Policy Move
Responding to increasing interest in the movement of policies between places, sites and settings, this timely book presents a critical alternative to approaches centred on ideas of policy transfer, dissemination or learning. Written by key people in the field, it argues that treating policy’s movement as an active process of ‘translation’, in which policies are interpreted, inflected and re-worked as they change location, is of critical importance for studying policy. The book provides an exciting and accessible analytical and methodological foundation for examining policy in this way and will be a valuable resource for those studying policy processes at both undergraduate and post-graduate levels. Mixing collectively written chapters with individual case studies of policies and practices, the book provides a powerful and productive introduction to rethinking policy studies through translation. It ends with a commitment to the possibilities of thinking and doing ‘policy otherwise’.
"This is a highly recommendable read for anyone interested in policy research." Zeitschrift für Volkskunde
“A marvelous achievement, brilliantly theorizing policy as translation and assemblage in order to make visible the constructions, collaborations, contestations and contradictions that are often elided in mainstream accounts.“ Catherine Kingfisher, Professor of Anthropology, University of Lethbridge, Canada
“This remarkable conversation between four policy studies academics shows what happens as policies and practices travel across time and space. Deeply collaborative and intellectually generous, this book exemplifies how we might approach policy otherwise.“ Wendy Larner, Professor of Geography, University of Bristol
“Policies clearly travel; and in today's world, such travel crosses borders-not only geographic, but conceptual, linguistic, and cultural-thereby requiring the hard, social and political work of translation, both literally and figuratively. Making Policy Move moves policy analysis forward theoretically and analytically, making it a thought-provoking book for scholars of public policies.” Dvora Yanow, Visiting Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, Wageningen University.
Dave Bainton is a lecturer in Education at Goldsmiths College, University of London and works on relationships between education and development in the Global South. John Clarke is Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Open University. His work stretches across cultural studies, anthropology and policy studies. Noémi Lendvai is a Lecturer in Comparative Social Policy at the University of Bristol and works on post-communist transformations and the Europeanisation of welfare. Paul Stubbs is a UK-born sociologist, currently a Senior Research Fellow in the Institute of Economics, Zagreb, Croatia whose work at the junctions of research, activism and advocacy/consultancy focuses on social policy in South East Europe
Introduction: policy as translation;
Assembling the New Public Management;
Intermediaries, Translation and ‘Flexible Agencification’: re-constructing South-East Europe;
Translating ‘education’: Displacements and erasures in the Global South;
Translating ‘social inclusion’: critical reflections on European policy spaces and their making;
Conclusion.
