[Interpretationandmethods] FW: Question re: how policy travels across time and place

[Dvora Yanow]

Posting for Laleh Khalili.

Please consider replying to the list so we can all benefit from the answers.

Best,

Dvora 

-----Original Message-----
From: lk180 at columbia.edu [mailto:lk180 at columbia.edu]
Sent: maandag 12 november 2007 16:40
To: Dvora Yanow
Subject: Question re: how policy/travels across time and place



I am working on a huge project in which I am tracing the geneology of US
incarceration and detention practices in the "War on Terror" back across
time and place. I am trying to see where some of the micropractices of
detention have emerged and how they have changed over time.  I know there
are certain specific "nodes" which are considered crucial in transmission
of such practices: US in Vietnam and before that in Philippines; Britain
in the Boer War and then Malaya, Kenya, Aden and Norther Ireland; France
in Vietnam and then Algeria; and then Israel in Lebanon and Palestine.
What connects them all is that they are all ostensibly liberal democracies
with extremelly illiberal counterinsurgency practices, especially when it
come to detention etc.

What I am hoping you could help me with is theoretical resources on policy
analysis that can tell me how and where certain policy practices travel, how
they change; innovation etc.  It seems to me that a lot of people refer to
Latour.  I was wondering if you know any good theoretical works that utilise
Latour in fields not necessarily related to science policy!

Many many thanks for any help you can give.

All my best
Laleh Khalili
soas
lk180 at columbia.edu