EU Policy and Destiny: A Challenge for Anthropology
Author(s)
McDonald, Maryon
Abstract
I want to come at ‘policy’ and related issues from a different angle and do so here through some brief and sweeping comments on the EU. The European Union is policy-centred, and self-defining ‘policy-makers’ make up its knowingly elite officials. If anthropologists are to examine policy, then I would suggest that the EU is one good place to start. Furthermore, the EU is at a critical juncture and the time is ripe for anthropologists living and working in Europe to be vocal in calling it to account. This is intended as a deliberately mischievous piece about the European Union.
