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

[Laleh Khalili]

Dear Bob

thanks for that suggestion, which i have taken to heart, and i have the 
empirics (loads and loads of it). what i am interested in at this point is 
ways of understanding my data...

:)



On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Bob Press wrote:

> 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!
>> 
>> xx
>> 
>> 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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