Kalervo N. Gulson is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales, Australia. Matthew Clarke is Professor of Education at York St John University, UK.Eva Bendix Petersen is Professor of Higher Education at the Roskilde University, Denmark.

• Introduction: Policy, theory, methodology Kalervo N. Gulson, Matthew Clarke and Eva Bendix Petersen. Section One: Theorists Bourdieu and doing policy sociology in education Shaun Rawolle and Bob Lingard. Michel de Certeau, everyday life and cultural policy studies in education Sue Saltmarsh. Repeating Deleuze and Guattari: towards a politics of method in education policy studies Sam Sellar. Derrida: The ‘impossibility of deconstructing educational policy enactment Greg Vass. Education policies as discursive formations: a Foucauldian optic Eva Bendix Petersen. Lacanian perspectives on education policy analysis Matthew Clarke. Section Two: Concept and Theories Situated, relational and practice-oriented: the Actor-Network Theory approach Radhika Gorur. Thinking educational policy and management through (frictional) concepts of affects Dorthe Staunæs and Justine Grønbæk Pors. Assemblage theory and education policy sociology Deborah Youdell. Counterpublics, crisis and critique: a feminist socio-historical approach to researching policy Jessica Gerrard. Embodying policy studies: Feminist genealogy as methodology Wanda S. Pillow. Governmentality: Foucault’s concept for our modern political reasoning Kaspar Villadsen. Taking a ‘material turn’ in education policy research? Stephen Heimans. Mobilities paradigm and policy research in education Fazal Rizvi. A narrative approach to policy analysis Peter Bansel. Queer theory, policy and education Mary Lou Rasmussen and Christina Gowlett. Thinking rhizomatically: Using Deleuze in education policy contexts Eileen Honan. Relational space and education policy analysis Kalervo N. Gulson.

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