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

[Bob Press]

Dear Laleh,
    Sharing ideas is the idea; so here's mine. Do lots of interviews. 
Polices stem from people talking to each other and making decisions. Find 
those people and trace how they arrived at their decisions.
    I'd recommend semi-structured interviews which, as I'm sure you know, 
set you up with questions but also a willingness to be flexible in case they 
bring up a point worth pursuing.
    I do most of my work in Africa.
    All the best,
    Bob Press
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Laleh Khalili" <lk180 at columbia.edu>
To: "interpretation and methods group" 
<interpretationandmethods at malagigi.cddc.vt.edu>
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 9:47 AM
Subject: Re: [Interpretationandmethods] FW: Question re: how policy 
travelsacross time and place


>
> thanks!
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> xx
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> On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, 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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