"Illuminating the craft of policy: an anthropological approach to polic" by Joanna Mason
The ‘task to come’ in anthropological fieldwork is rarely discussed explicitly as a set of underpinning methodological, analytical, conceptual, and theoretical precepts and practices. Drawing on learnings from a study of policymakers in the Australian Public Service–a non-conventional fieldwork location–this paper presents an account of how the anthropologist instituted direction and purpose or ‘fruitful ways of looking’ as an orientation to policy ethnography and the sense-making jo...
Australian Public Service Anthropological Fieldwork Evidence Based Policy Policy Craft Policy Ethnography
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