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

[Laleh Khalili]

thanks!

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On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Dvora Yanow wrote:

> Posting for Laleh Khalili.
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> Please consider replying to the list so we can all benefit from the answers.
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> Best,
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> Dvora
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> -----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
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> 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
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