Susan Wright is Professor of Educational Anthropology at the Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Introduction

Chapter 1. Conceptualising Policy: Technologies of Governance and the Politics of Visibility
Cris Shore and Susan Wright

Section I: Studying Policy: Methods, Paradigms, Perspectives

Introduction
Susan Wright

Chapter 2. Illuminating the Apparatus: Steps toward a Nonlocal Ethnography of Global Governance
Greg Feldman, University of British Columbia

Chapter 3. Politics and Ethics: Ethnographies of Expert Knowledge and Professional Identities
David Mosse, SOAS, London

Chapter 4. Peopling Policy: on Conflicting Subjectivities of Fee-Paying Students
Gritt B. Nielsen, Aarhus University

Chapter 5. Studying through": a Strategy for Studying Political Transformations. Or Sex, Lies and British Politics
Susan Wright and Sue Reinhold (North BerkeleyInvestment Partners)

Chapter 6. What was Neo-liberalism and what Comes Next? The Transformation of Citizenship in the Law-and-Order State
Susan Hyatt, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Section II: Studying Governance: Policy as a Window onto the Modern State

Introduction
Cris Shore

Chapter 7. Intimate Knowledge and the Politics of Policy Convergence: The World Bank and Social Security Reform in Mexico
Tara Schwegler, University of Chicago

Chapter 8. Shadow Governing: What the Neocon Core Reveals About Power and Influence in America
Janine Wedel, George Mason University

Chapter 9. Espionage, Policy and the Art of Government: The British Secret Services and the War on Iraq

Cris Shore

Chapter 10. The (Un)making of Policy in the Shadow of the World Bank: Infrastructure Development, Urban Resettlement and the Cunning State in India
Shalini Randeriaand Ciara Grunder, University of Zurich

Chapter 11. Sweden's National Pension System as a Political Technology
Anette Nyqvist, Stockholm University

Section III: Subjects of Policy: Construction and Contestation

Introduction
Davide Però

Chapter 12. The Case of Scanzano: Raison d'Etat and the Reasons for Rebellion
Dorothy Louise Zinn, Università degli Studi della Basilicata

Chapter 13. Migrants' Practices of Citizenship and Policy Change
Davide Però

Chapter 14. Integration Policy and Ethnic Minority Associations
Clarissa Kugelberg Upsala University

Chapter 15. The Elephant in the Room. Multi-stakeholder Dialogue on Agricultural Biotechnology in the Food and Agriculture Organisation
Birgit Müller, LAIOS-CNRS Paris

Afterword

Chapter 16. A policy ethnographer's reading of policy anthropology
Dvora Yanow, Vrije University

Notes on Contributors

Ends

Index