There are few areas of society today that remain outside the ambit
of policy processes, and likewise policy making has progressively
reached into the structure and fabric of everyday life. An
instrument of modern government, policy and its processes provide
an analytical window into systems of governance themselves, opening
up ways to study power and the construction of regimes of truth.
This volume argues that policies are not simply coercive,
constraining or confined to static texts; rather, they are
productive, continually contested and able to create new social and
semantic spaces and new sets of relations. Anthropologists do not
stand outside or above systems of governance but are themselves
subject to the rhetoric and rationalities of policy. The analyses
of policy worlds presented by the contributors to this volume open
up new possibilities for understanding systems of knowledge and
power and the positioning of academics within them.
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