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- Title
The Uses of Professional Networking in the Emerging Methodology for an Anthropology of Public Policy.
- Authors
Powell, Michael G.
- Abstract
By considering multiple perspectives on the problem of networking and networks in public policy circles, as well as the wider professional world, this article aims to both draw out and blur boundaries and definitions among multiple levels of networking as an analytic concept, a fieldwork method and a practice observed among policymakers. In making this distinction and explaining it in relation to theorisations of fieldwork rapport and 'complicity,' the article attempts to show that the distance and collegiality that defines professional networking is a viable and potentially quite insightful mode, means and method for conducting fieldwork, particularly for multisited anthropology of public policy projects. To that end, this article offers both conceptual ideas, as well as practical advice for conceiving and conducting fieldwork for an anthropology of public policy project.
- Subjects
PUBLIC anthropology; METHODOLOGY; ETHNOMETHODOLOGY; SOCIAL sciences; GOVERNMENT policy; BUSINESS networks
- Publication
Anthropology in Action, 2008, Vol 15, Issue 2, p26
- ISSN
0967-201X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3167/aia.2008.150203