Based on a comprehensive review of the various orientations of policy ethnography, this chapter illustrates four defining features of critical policy ethnography: challenging mainstream positivist approaches to public policy; confronting commonsense and official views on policy; setting individual experiences and micro-observations in the broader perspective of power and inequality structures; and unveiling social, economic, symbolic and political domination processes operating in and through policy processes.
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Handbook Chapter
In Handbook of Critical Policy Studies
Edited by Frank Fischer, Douglas Torgerson, Anna Durnová and Michael Orsini
- Published:
- 18 December 2015
Collection:
Social And Political Science 2015