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Bernstein A. The Clinic and the Court: Law, Medicine, and Anthropology. Edited by IanHarper, TobiasKelly, and AkshayKhanna (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015)The Role of Social Science in Law. Edited by ElizabethMertz (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2008). POLAR-POLITICAL AND LEGAL ANTHROPOLOGY REVIEW 2020. [DOI: 10.1111/plar.12145] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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As complex institutions extend into and govern greater spheres of social life, ethnographers contend with policy in an ever-widening range of fieldsites. This review examines anthropology of policy as an emerging subfield of political anthropology, focusing on policy making as central to contemporary governance in English-language ethnographies. Broadening the analytical field in the study of policy to include the targets of policy and their allies is one of the central contributions of an anthropological approach to policy making. Anthropological studies of policy production, implementation, and effects face significant methodological and ethical challenges. Scholarly debates in the United States and Europe continue to erupt over the production of scholarship intended to inform policy making, including the co-option of ethnography. While turning the anthropological gaze on powerful political actors could contribute to decolonization efforts within the discipline, ethically adopting ethnographic research into policy making requires complex alliances with communities targeted by policy.
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- Winifred Tate
- Department of Anthropology, Colby College, Waterville, Maine 04910, USA
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Alonso González P, González-Álvarez D, Roura-Expósito J. ParticiPat: Exploring the Impact of Participatory Governance in the Heritage Field. POLAR-POLITICAL AND LEGAL ANTHROPOLOGY REVIEW 2018. [DOI: 10.1111/plar.12263] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Pablo Alonso González
- Institute of Heritage Sciences, Spanish National Research Council; Institute of Natural Products and Agrobiology, (IPNA-CSIC)
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Qureshi A. Responsibility for Care and Support. AIDS IN PAKISTAN 2018. [DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-6220-9_7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Bernstein A. Bureaucratic Speech: Language Choice and Democratic Identity in the Taipei Bureaucracy. POLAR-POLITICAL AND LEGAL ANTHROPOLOGY REVIEW 2017. [DOI: 10.1111/plar.12203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Evans G. Minutes, meetings, and ‘modes of existence’: navigating the bureaucratic process of urban regeneration in East London. JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE 2017. [DOI: 10.1111/1467-9655.12598] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Weiss E. Best Practices for Besting the Bureaucracy: Avoiding Military Service in Israel. POLAR-POLITICAL AND LEGAL ANTHROPOLOGY REVIEW 2016. [DOI: 10.1111/plar.12169] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Nyqvist A. Insecurity in an Orange Envelope: National Pension System Reform in Sweden. POLAR-POLITICAL AND LEGAL ANTHROPOLOGY REVIEW 2015. [DOI: 10.1111/plar.12110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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This review surveys anthropological and other social research on bureaucratic documents. The fundamental insight of this literature is that documents are not simply instruments of bureaucratic organizations, but rather are constitutive of bureaucratic rules, ideologies, knowledge, practices, subjectivities, objects, outcomes, even the organizations themselves. It explores the reasons why documents have been late to come under ethnographic scrutiny and the implications for our theoretical understandings of organizations and methods for studying them. The review argues for the great value of the study of paper-mediated documentation to the study of electronic forms, but it also highlights the risk of an exclusive focus on paper, making anthropology marginal to the study of core bureaucratic practices in the manner of earlier anthropology.
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- Matthew S. Hull
- Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
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