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A Policy Travelogue: Tracing Welfare Reform in Aotearoa/New Zealand and Canada
Catherine Kingfisher
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Description for A Policy Travelogue: Tracing Welfare Reform in Aotearoa/New Zealand and Canada
Paperback. Examines the development and travel of the New Zealand model of neoliberal welfare reform. Explores the social life of policy, which is one of process, motion, and change. Demonstrates how policy is liked to cultural meaning as well as power struggles. Num Pages: 230 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBCL; 1MBN; JHMC; JKSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 22. Weight in Grams: 322.
An ethnography of the development and travel of the New Zealand model of neoliberal welfare reform, this study explores the social life of policy, which is one of process, motion, and change. Different actors, including not only policy elites but also providers and recipients, engage with it in light of their own resources and knowledge. Drawing on two analytic frameworks of the contemporary anthropology of policy-translation and assemblage-Kingfisher situates policy as an artifact and architect of cultural meaning, as well as a site of power struggles. All points of engagement with policy are approached as sites of policy production that ... Read more
An ethnography of the development and travel of the New Zealand model of neoliberal welfare reform, this study explores the social life of policy, which is one of process, motion, and change. Different actors, including not only policy elites but also providers and recipients, engage with it in light of their own resources and knowledge. Drawing on two analytic frameworks of the contemporary anthropology of policy-translation and assemblage-Kingfisher situates policy as an artifact and architect of cultural meaning, as well as a site of power struggles. All points of engagement with policy are approached as sites of policy production that ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
230
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785332210
SKU
V9781785332210
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Ref
99-15
About Catherine Kingfisher
Catherine Kingfisher is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Lethbridge. She is editor of Western Welfare in Decline: Globalization and Women's Poverty (2002) and author of Women in the American Welfare Trap (1996). Her research focuses on policy, governance, personhood, gender, and, most recently, happiness and well-being.
Reviews for A Policy Travelogue: Tracing Welfare Reform in Aotearoa/New Zealand and Canada
Kingfisher's book is a theoretically productive account of how welfare reform policies develop and travel...from the world of policy elites to the daily lives of poor single mothers... An important strength of Kingfisher's book is the range of data she uses from locations that are less discussed in the literature on policy and especially in the literature on welfare reform. ... Read more