The development of the European Union has been one of the most profound advances in European politics and society in the 20th century. Yet the institutions of Europe and the Eurocrats who work in them have constantly attracted negative publicity, culminating in the mass resignation of the European Commissioners in March 1999. This study scrutinizes the process of European integration using the techniques of anthropology, and drawing on thought from across the social sciences. Using the findings of numerous interviews with EU employees, it reveals that there is not just a subculture of...
The development of the European Union has been one of the most profound advances in European politics and society in the 20th century. Yet the institu...
There are few areas of society today that remain outside the ambit of policy processes, and likewise policy making has progressively reached into the structure and fabric of everyday life. An instrument of modern government, policy and its processes provide an analytical window into systems of governance themselves, opening up ways to study power and the construction of regimes of truth. This volume argues that policies are not simply coercive, constraining or confined to static texts; rather, they are productive, continually contested and able to create new social and semantic spaces and new...
There are few areas of society today that remain outside the ambit of policy processes, and likewise policy making has progressively reached into the ...
There are few areas of society today that remain outside the ambit of policy processes, and likewise policy making has progressively reached into the structure and fabric of everyday life. An instrument of modern government, policy and its processes provide an analytical window into systems of governance themselves, opening up ways to study power and the construction of regimes of truth. This volume argues that policies are not simply coercive, constraining or confined to static texts; rather, they are productive, continually contested and able to create new social and semantic spaces and new...
There are few areas of society today that remain outside the ambit of policy processes, and likewise policy making has progressively reached into the ...
"A stimulating collection of interviews....Its value is in the biographical glimpses, intellectual perspectives and methodological insights each offer into their work. The dialogical approach works well.... T]he volume illustrates the dynamic relationship between anthropological theorizing and political practice. Rather than celebrate anthropology, the book's role is perhaps to champion iconoclasm and the unorthodox approaches that seem to characterize many anthropological careers." - David Mills, Oxford University
Combining rich personal accounts from twelve veteran anthropologists with...
"A stimulating collection of interviews....Its value is in the biographical glimpses, intellectual perspectives and methodological insights each offer...
"The book thus offers both unsettling and highlyvinspirational reading material, especially forvacademics emerging from the world's metropolises. It raises issues that are frequently overlooked and which represent unavoidable starting points for those doing anthropology today in the Antipodes and elsewhere." - Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
"This book is a good and lively read, constructed so as to draw the readers into the discussion, to make us reach our own conclusions and also to do what most of us like best: to listen carefully and to draw conclusions from the stories...
"The book thus offers both unsettling and highlyvinspirational reading material, especially forvacademics emerging from the world's metropolises. I...
