Open AccessTHE TEMPORALITIES OF POLICY TRANSLATION IN THE SEMI-PERIPHERY: REVISITING THE EUROPEANISATION OF WELFARE REFORMS IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH EAST EUROPE
Author(s) -
Noémi LendvaiBainton,
Paul Stubbs
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
godišnjak za sociologiju - filozofski fakultet u nišu/godišnjak za sociologiju
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1820-6360
pISSN - 1451-9739
DOI - 10.46630/gsoc.27.2021.01
Subject(s) - temporalities , europeanisation , temporality , context (archaeology) , sociology , political economy , ethnography , political science , economic system , politics , epistemology , history , law , economics , anthropology , philosophy , archaeology
This article seeks to conceptualise time and temporality in the context of semi-peripheral social relations, with a particular focus on the transnational dimensions of policy translation. In particular, we show how, albeit within the co-existence of multiple temporalities, ‘policy time’ and ‘time in policy’ tends to enable and privilege particular kinds of policy processes over others. Revisiting a number of themes from our ethnographic work on social policy reform drawn, mainly, from the post-Yugoslav and Hungarian context and relating, mainly, to so-called ‘Europeanisation’ processes, allows us to foreground the spatio-temporal dimensions of policy processes. The text explores some key challenges in terms of how to treat time within critical policy studies.