Introduzione: azione pubblica, potere e pratiche sociali, la lente della politicizzazione

This introduction presents the aim of a collective effort of a book on depoliticisation and repoliticisation. The meaning of the concepts use by the authors is explained referring to two generations of academic debate in political science and sociology, and even through examples concerning the field of education policies. Depoliticisation is a key to understanding the transformations occurring in the relationships between political and non-political actors who take part in the policy processes. Nevertheless, the theoretical debate has some limitations, regarding the limited importance given to the actors of depoliticization strategies and the related processes of politicization of supposedly non-political actors and practices in the context of neoliberalism. Moreover, the Introduction presents the chapters that follow. For each of them the themes focused on and the specific meaning of depoliticization and repoliticisation are sketched.