Book Review - The politics of scale in policy: scalecraft and education governance
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2019-09-17
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Henderson, Hayley
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Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
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My background in urban studies and my time as a doctoral candidate under the
supervision of geography Professor Brendan Gleeson placed me in a position to
support Papanastasiou’s notion of taking space seriously in policy analysis.
However, this book does much more than draw our attention to the theoretical
need to consider space in policy: It provides a compelling account of the
dominance of scale as a policy and analytical category in European education
policy and governance, while also offering a practicable, poststructuralist framework for problematising this ‘scalecraft’ and to bring political geography to play
in policy studies. This original contribution demonstrates an empirically
grounded approach to what some critical social scientists have been calling
for: a move beyond one-dimensionalism to consider the multiple ways sociospatial relations are constituted and organised (e.g. Jessop, Brenner, and Jones
2008). While focused on Europe, overall this book offers both methodological
and conceptual insights that might be readily transferred to other studies
through the framework of ‘scalecraft.’
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