The turn towards policy mobilities and the theoretical-methodological implications for policy sociology

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12905830
AutoresSteven Lewis (0000-0002-8796-3939, Deakin University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen62
Número3
Páginas322-337
Fecha de publicación2020-08-14
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCritical Studies in Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1750-8487 • E-ISSN: 1750-8495
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17508487.2020.1808499
OpenAlexW3049634310
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas43
Referencias citadas61

This paper reflects critically upon how the ‘mobilities turn’ in the social sciences, and its subsequent contribution towards ‘policy mobilities’, offers theoretical and methodological resources that can be usefully harnessed in education policy sociology. Just as there are new ways in which policy is being made and moved, there are equally new ways to be a researcher of education policy who seeks to understand these processes. My purpose here is to help crystallise and make explicit these new mobilities-informed approaches, not only for the purpose of considering how mobility can help reconsider how to think and practise policy sociology, but also to better reflect and accommodate the empirical changes inherent in contemporary policymaking and enactment. I first survey the literature around the mobilities turn and emphasise its implications for social science research, before turning to how policy mobilities theories and methodologies can be employed within policy sociology. Finally, I close the paper by reflecting on the implications of conducting policy sociology with a policy mobility lens and outline the issues that come from foregrounding movement in the research of education policy

Economics · Epistemology · Foregrounding · Mobilities · Policy analysis · Political science · Positive economics · Social policy · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of Education · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Law · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics