Making Policy Move: Towards a Politics of Translation and Assemblage

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Responding to increasing interest in the movement of policies between places, sites and settings, this timely book, written by key people in the field, argues that treating policy's movement as an active process of 'translation', in which policies are interpreted, inflected and re-worked as they change location, is of critical importance for studying policy.

John Clarke is Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Open University. His work stretches across cultural studies, anthropology and policy studies.Dave Bainton is a Lecturer in Education at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and works on relationships between education and development in the Global South.Noemi Lendvai is a Lecturer in Comparative Social Policy at the University of Bristol and works on post-communist transformations and the Europeanisation of welfare.Paul Stubbs is a UK-born sociologist, currently a Senior Research Fellow in the Institute of Economics, Zagreb, Croatia, whose work at the junctions of research, activism and advocacy/consultancy focuses on social policy in South East Europe

"A marvelous achievement, brilliantly theorizing policy as translation and assemblage in order to make visible the constructions, collaborations, contestations and contradictions that are often elided in mainstream accounts." Catherine Kingfisher, Professor of Anthropology, University of Lethbridge, Canada; "This remarkable conversation between four policy studies academics shows what happens as policies and practices travel across time and space. Deeply collaborative and intellectually generous, this book exemplifies how we might approach policy otherwise." Wendy Larner, Professor of Geography, University of Bristol; "Making Policy Move moves policy analysis forward theoretically and analytically, making it a thought-provoking book for scholars of public policies." Dvora Yanow, Visiting Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, Wageningen University