Translating policy: Power and action in Australia's country towns
Translating policy: Power and action in Australia's country towns
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政策转化：澳大利亚乡村小镇的权力与行动
DOI：
10.1046/j.1467-9523.2003.00255.x
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发表时间：
2003
影响因子：
4.1
通讯作者：
L. Herbert
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作者：
L. Herbert
在目前的情况下，澳大利亚农村的特点是一种衰落的话语，认为乡村城镇和地区是士气低落和绝望的地方。从福柯治理的角度来看，那些生活在这些空间的人对城市政府和全球资本的要求并不是“无能为力”，而是根据晚期资本主义的社会政治野心而变得可以治理。虽然重要的见解已经从这样的分析，它认为在本文中，过度的关注往往是支付给国家的权力，很少关心的各种方式，当地人参与，并改变国家权力的战略和效果。而不是利用抵抗的概念来理解这些互动，翻译社会学是从行动者网络理论文献。应用于两个案例，它显示了政府的政策和方案往往是互动和谈判的结果，发生在所有那些参加了行动者网络。
Controversies In its present condition, rural Australia is characterised by a discourse of decline that sees country towns and regions as places of demoralisation and despair. From a Foucauldian governmentality perspective, those who live in these spaces are not so much 'powerless' to the demands of urban-based governments and global capital, as rendered governable according to the socio-political ambitions of late capitalism. While important insights have been derived from such analyses, it is argued in this paper that excessive attention is often paid to the power of the state with little concern for the various ways in which local people engage with, and transform the strategies and effects of state power. Rather than utilising the concept of resistance to make sense of these interactions, a sociology of translation is adopted from the Actor Network Theory literature. Applied to two case examples, it shows how governmental policies and programmes are frequently the outcome of the interactions and negotiations that take place between all those enrolled in the actor-network.