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We all inhabit a world of lived experience that is shaped, more or less directly, by policy and policy makers. Our daily experience as commuters, parents, children, citizens, consumers, patients, learners, teachers, neighbours and workers cannot be rendered fully legible without a framework of analysis that discloses its policy-embedded nature. But policy processes have usually not been interrogated for the manner in which they shape and are shaped by the experiences and relationships of policy actors as they trigger, interpret, resist, comply or ignore the currents of policy change that help constitute their own and others’ life worlds.
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Cooper, A. (2009). ‘Be Quiet and Listen’: Emotion, Public Policy and Social Totality. In: Sclater, S.D., Jones, D.W., Price, H., Yates, C. (eds) Emotion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230245136_13
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