Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice CONTENIDO: Policy: a new field of anthropology? -- Policy as language and power -- Writing development policy and policy analysis plain or clear: on language, genre and power -- The implications of "medical", "gender in development" and "culturalist" discourses for HIV/AIDS policy in Africa -- Patients' bodies and discourses of power -- Policy and cultural agent -- Free to make the right choice? Gender equality policy in post-welfare Sweden -- The cultural politics of populism: celebrating canadian national identity -- Governing Europe: European Union audiovisual policy and the politics of identity -- Policy as political technology: governmentality and subjectivity -- Reform and resistance: a Norwegian illustration -- Poverty in a "post-welfare" landscape: tenant management policies, self-governance and the democratization of knowledge in Great Britain -- Managing Americans: policy and changes in the meanings of work and the self -- Epilogue -- Anthropology and policy research: the view from Northern Ireland.
