Governing Cultures [electronic resource] : Anthropological Perspectives on Political Labor, Power, and Government /
Coulter, K.editor.
Schumann, W.editor.
By assembling original, ethnographically-grounded research in legislatures, executives, and bureaucracies, this volume illuminates and unpacks the structures, practices, and values of government actors in local, regional, and national contexts.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Government Matters: Intellectual Labor and the Work of Governing; 2 Navigating the Illegible State: The Political Labor of Government in Mexico; 3 A Project of Governing and its Contradictions: Maternal-Infant Care in Highland Ecuador; 4 Governing Beef: Program Implementation, Unintended Consequences, and BSE Control in Alberta; 5 Selling Clear Red Water: The Identity Politics of Governing in the National Assembly for Wales
6 Legislative Authenticity and the Politics of Recognition: Being a Ma ̄ori Member of the New Zealand Parliament7 Gendering Government: Political Labor and the Production of Policy and Political Culture; 8 The Work of Being Governed: From the Welfare State to the "Big Society" in Britain; 9 The Will To End Hunger in the Age of Security: Food Security, National Security, and Community- Based Food Security in the United States; 10 The Work of Governing; List of Contributors; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
By assembling original, ethnographically-grounded research in legislatures, executives, and bureaucracies, this volume illuminates and unpacks the structures, practices, and values of government actors in local, regional, and national contexts.
Culture.
Political sociology.
Ethnology.
Sociology.
Anthropology.
Sociology of Culture.
Political Sociology.
Social Anthropology.
Cultural Anthropology.
Sociology, general.
Anthropology.