Narrating Policy - Leeds University Symposium. Keynote - Hannah Jones (1/16/2017)

Narrating Policy - Keynote by Hannah Jones (University of Warwick) *Telling Tales: Policy and Performance in the Current “Crisis”* The talk will draw on my recent collaborative project and forthcoming co-authored book which look at the performative politics of migration control in the UK through a focus on the effects of the Home Office’s communications on immigration from 2013-2015. It will develop this work and bring the analysis up to the current moment by discussing some of the ways in which politicians, media and the public have made sense of the assassination of Jo Cox in June 2016, the EU referendum result, and the ongoing deaths that form part of the ‘migrant crisis’, by drawing on narratives of belonging that both open up and close down possibilities for alternative political futures. 'Narrating Policy: Exploring Narrative in Policy and Policy Analysis' was a one-day symposium held at the University of Leeds, organised by James Beresford and Ashley R. Bullard, doctoral researchers in the School of Sociology and Social Policy. The day was dedicated to the various and variegated ways narrative and narrative analysis informs policy and policy analysis. The symposium was sponsored by the Leeds Social Science Institution and the Sociology and Social Policy’s Policy Research Cluster.

Dr. Hannah Jones

1/16/2017 4:00:39 PM