Policy mobilities are more than global policy movement : Concepts and methodologies in education policy research
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Lewis, Steven, Gulson, Kalervo and McKenzie, Marcia. (2024). Policy mobilities are more than global policy movement : Concepts and methodologies in education policy research. In In Brent Edwards Jr., D, Verger, Antoni, McKenzie, Marcia and Takayama, Keita (Ed.). Researching Global Education Policy - Diverse Approaches to Policy Movement pp. 189-208 Policy Press. https://doi.org/10.56687/9781447368045-012
Authors | Lewis, Steven, Gulson, Kalervo and McKenzie, Marcia |
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Editors | Brent Edwards Jr., D, Verger, Antoni, McKenzie, Marcia and Takayama, Keita |
Abstract | The 21st century is intensifying policy formations that involve movement and interconnectivity. These formations are created through transnational migration, climate impacts, new forms of digital data movement and infrastructure, and the continuing development of networked governance. Indeed, policy making can now be said to increasingly stretch beyond, overflow and flatten the territorial borders of the traditional Westphalian nation state. The presence of the new policy formations, and the processes by which they are developed and disseminated suggest that policy research now requires novel conceptualizations and methodologies that can adequately attend to these emerging phenomena and that can provide both descriptive and analytical power. In this chapter, we focus on policy mobilities as a broad term that captures work identifying and conceptualizing how policy moves through multiple and diffuse means, including nonscalar modalities. Policy mobilities work evolved a decade or so ago, connected to scholarship in urban, economic and critical geography (Peck and Theodore, 2010; McCann, 2011; Cochrane and Ward, 2012; Baker and Temenos, 2015), as well as the broader “mobility turn” in sociology (Sheller and Urry, 2006; Urry, 2007). Mobility concepts posit that social formations are in constant movement and mutation rather than being static and immutable (Cresswell, 2006; Gulson and Symes, 2017), and can be distinguished from previous cross- disciplinary scholarship that focused on policy transfer and diffusion models (for example, Meyer, 1971; Ramirez, 2012). Such approaches sought to downplay the political, social and economic influences of specific national and local contexts in favor of a policy isomorphism deemed to be shaped by the increasing demands of an imagined world society (Carney et al, 2012). Policy mobilities are related to but distinct from political science notions of policy diffusion, for example, via modalities such as borrowing from other nation states. |
Keywords | Policy mobilities; Nonscalar Assemblage; Topology; Networks; Methodology |
Page range | 189-208 |
Year | 01 Jan 2024 |
Book title | Researching Global Education Policy - Diverse Approaches to Policy Movement |
Publisher | Policy Press |
Place of publication | United Kingdom |
Edition | 1 |
Series | Research in Comparative and Global Social Policy |
ISBN | 978-1-44-736802-1 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.56687/9781447368045-012 |
Web address (URL) | https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.56687/9781447368045-012/html |
Open access | Published as non-open access |
Research or scholarly | Research |
Publisher's version | License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled |
Output status | Published |
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2024 | |
Online | 24 Jul 2024 |
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Deposited | 17 Mar 2025 |
Additional information | © Bristol University Press 2024 |
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