‘What do you call the heathen these days?' The policy field and other matters of the heart in the Norwegian Mission Society
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Hovland, Ingie (2005) ‘What do you call the heathen these days?' The policy field and other matters of the heart in the Norwegian Mission Society. In: Problems and Possibilities in Multi-sited Ethnography Workshop, 27-28 June 2005, University of Sussex. (Unpublished)
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Abstract
The paper will explore policy in a Norwegian Christian church and development NGO, the Norwegian Mission Society (NMS), from a multi-sited perspective. Most importantly, I think, this brings out associations that tell us something about (1) the people under study in NMS, their own continuous ‘site and system awareness’, and their attempts – not dissimilar to mine – to sort out their policy field; (2) me as ethnographer and my attempts to site myself and my discipline in relation to the non-heathen policymakers of NMS; and (3) the nature of development policy itself: from such a multi-sited perspective, policy, clearly, is shown to be important – but not for the reasons one would think.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Subjects: | 4. Data Handling and Data Analysis > 4.1 Qualitative Approaches > 4.1.12 Ethnography |
| ID Code: | 98 |
| Deposited By: | Michelle Heward |
| Deposited On: | 09 Nov 2007 15:44 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Oct 2010 18:35 |
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