[Interpretationandmethods] FW: Question re: howpolicy travelsacross time and place

[Bob Press]

Yeah, that's my challenge too: piles of interviews and no certainty that I 
am 'mining' them fully. When you figure that out, let me know how. I had a 
research assistant try to timeline responses; that helped a bit; I'm still 
learning. Bob
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Laleh Khalili" <lk180 at columbia.edu>
To: "interpretation and methods group" 
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Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 3:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Interpretationandmethods] FW: Question re: howpolicy 
travelsacross time and place


>
> 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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