Episode #3: Cris Shore
Conversations in Anthropology
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Foucault's Theory of Policy
I first met Sue Wright in 1989, and there was a group called Bassap. We started to think through policy as an anthropological phenomenon. It's very much works like symbols, condensed symbols. They're anti-guitist, they're packed. And Foucault was very big at best times,. So it's a frame thing in terms of so Policy is like a discourse of power that serves as a legitimating narrative. I mean, it hasn't helped you if you go against the company policy. Well, we used to always argue the case around the notion of policy as a type of, as you said, symbolic Violence.
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