The Synchronization of National Policies: Ethnography of the Global Tribe of Moderns

ISBN-13: 9780367867850 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 204 str.

Pertti Alasuutari

Opis

The Synchronization of National Policies makes a contribution to current understanding on how national policies are synchronized with each other. Unlike mainstream research that treats international organizations as the creators of such global governance, this book underlines the role of local actors. The book shows how actors in nation

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Synchronization Through Epistemic Governance  3. The Formation, Spread and Use of World Models  4. The Construction of Parallel Domestic Realities  5. Cross-National Discourses and American Unilateralism  6. The Epistemic Capital of Organizations  7. The Transnational Circulation of Catchwords  8. The Global Incorporation of Uniqueness  9. Conclusion

O autorze

Pertti Alasuutari, PhD, is Professor of Sociology at the University of Tampere, Finland. He has published widely in the areas of social theory, cultural and media studies, and social research methodology. His current research focuses on the role of knowledge production in global governance. His books include National Policy Making (Routledge 2014), Researching Culture: Qualitative Method and Cultural Studies (Sage 1995), An Invitation to Social Research (Sage 1998), Rethinking the Media Audience (Sage 1999), and Social Theory and Human Reality (Sage 2004). He is co-editor of the European Journal of Cultural Studies and he has published in numerous international scientific journals.