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

[Ido Oren]

It's not directly about policy practices or their dissemination, but you 
may nevertheless find the following book helpful. Roxanne Doty, 
/Imperial Encounters /(University of Minnesota Press, 1996). Doty 
employs discourse analysis (inspired by Foucault, Derrida, Said) to 
explore how it was possible for self-styled champions of freedom -- 
Great Britain and the United States -- to engage in brutal colonial 
practices that ostensibly contradicted their liberal self-image.
Ido

Dvora Yanow wrote:

>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
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