Call for Papers
Dear All,
We warmly invite paper submissions for our panel.
*Deadline: March 23rd*
Convenors:
Paul Stubbs, Institute of Economics, Zagreb University
Cris Shore, Goldsmiths University of London
Panel Title: ‘An Anthropology of Policy: Legacies and Future Challenges’
IUAES 2020 in Sibenik, Croatia: 7-11 October
Panel Abstract:
Anthropological approaches to policy shine light on aspects of the policy process that mainstream, objectivist or legal-rationalist accounts rarely address, highlighting the complex, non-linear, ambiguous, messy and sometimes contradictory nature of policy processes. Using ethnography to open up the "black box" of policy making serves to highlight the sociocultural and political dimensions of policy worlds. Anthropological perspectives on policy also explore policy mobilities and policy translation in terms of transnational and international dimensions of policy within a world of global flows. Seeing policies as "social and political spaces articulated through relations of power and governance" (Shore and Wright, 1997) links policy inexorably to power, and sees policy documents as a specific genre of meaning making. More recent work has brought human and non-human agency back in, suggesting that policies are actively made or assembled and remade by reflexive political subjects. This panel seeks papers, theoretical and/or ethnographic, that utilise an anthropology of policy approach, however loosely defined. What are some of the "next generation" forms of policy making and how can anthropologists analyse and critique these? We are particularly interested in papers that address current and future methodological and ethical challenges, and how anthropological approaches can address issues of big data, democracy, new forms of governance, the role of artificial intelligence, and the changing relationship between politics technocracy and policy. How is the work of policy implicated in constructing the present and shaping the future?
IUAES Commission: American Anthropological Association, Association for the Anthropology of Policy (ASAP)
Abstract for presentations are submitted to a specific panel – just do not forget to choose one in the abstract submission system<https://iuaes2020.conventuscredo.hr/abstract-submission/>.
https://iuaes2020.conventuscredo.hr/panel/panel-no-21/<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fiuaes2020.conventuscredo.hr%2Fpanel%2Fpanel-no-21%2F&data=01%7C01%7CC.Shore%40gold.ac.uk%7C02e208032dfb4f36acff08d7a8ca688e%7C0d431f3f20c1461c958a46b29d4e021b%7C0&sdata=AXlY6y5l2TybU1d77e%2FRiEUKHkw%2Fx6fbrbEgHhCboYY%3D&reserved=0>
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