Resumo: Este trabalho explora algumas das implicações do desenvolvimento de uma antropologia ou etnografi a das dimensões transnacionais da política. A primeira parte explica o aparato conceitual básico, em termos de política como criadora de signifi cados. A segunda parte examina a política como tradução e explora suas implicações em termos de transnacionalização das políticas e, em particular, procura contrastar a tradução de políticas com noções mais ortodoxas de transferência de políticas. A terceira parte explora a tradução de políticas através de uma abordagem etnográfi ca refl exiva, desenvolvendo alguns casos baseados no envolvimento prático dos autores em reformas de políticas sociais em partes da Europa Central e do Leste. A quarta parte apresenta algumas conclusões e indica algumas objeções teóricas e éticas que podem e devem ser levantadas com relação à abordagem apresentada. Palavras-chave: Política educacional. Políticas sociais. Trasnacionalização.Abstract: This article explores some of the implications of the development of an anthropology or ethnography of the transnational dimensions of policies. The fi rst part explains the basic conceptual apparatus, in terms of policies as a generator of meanings. The second part examines policies as translation and explores its implications in terms of the transnationalization of the policies and, in particular, it seeks to contrast the translation of policies with more orthodox knowledge of policies transference. The third part explores the translation of policies through a refl exive ethnographical approach, analyzing a number of cases based on the practical involvement of the authors in social policies reforms in regions of the Central Europe and the East. The fourth part presents some conclusions and indicates certain theoretical and ethical objections that can and must be raised with regard to the presented approach.

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This article focuses on the implications of understanding 'Europeanization' as a complex, dynamic and troubled translation process. It discusses post-communist welfare in the context of variegated forms of austerity capitalism in the EU. In particular, the complex relationships between modalities of welfare, the uneven development of neo-liberalisms and the multi-scalar restructuring of welfare assemblages, are discussed in the context of the reframing of relationships between the economic, the political and the social in a period of deep crisis and austerity. Post-communist Europe cannot be conceived as a flattened map or a singular regime type. Rather, diverse and often contradictory restructurings operate in different places at different times, and political agency continues to matter. Comparing and contrasting the changing relationships between neo-liberalism, authoritarian populism and ethnicized nationalism in Hungary and Croatia provides a more nuanced understanding of the variable geometries of transnational translations.

The growing influence of transnational process, institutions and policy communities has contributed to the emergence of a global public policy that is distinct (although not separate) from the national process of policy-making. In this context gender equality and gender mainstreaming have become dominant policy and political narratives for addressing gender injustice. The focus of this paper is on developing the conceptual and theoretical links between global policy paradigms and gender equality and incorporating multi-scalarity, translation and disjuncture into our understanding of the ways in which policies are made, processed and enacted. The discussion begins by extending Hall's concept of policy paradigm as a nationally bounded entity and highlighting the transnational processes and institutions contributing to the emergence of a global policy paradigm and global policy space. It then goes on to highlight the fluidity of policy paradigms and the importance of moving beyond the focus on techno-managerial "order" as the essence of the policy paradigm and indicators of change and instead to bring into sharper focus disjuncture and tensions.