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Poststructural Policy Analysis: A Guide to Practice
Part I Asking new policy questions 1 Introduction 22 Making politics The WPR approach 153 Key themes and concepts 33Power, knowledge and resistance 34Practices, events and relations 39Discourses and discursive practices 43Problematizing, problematizations, self-problematization 47 rationalities and technologies 52Genealogy and subjugated knowledges 58Subjectification, subject positions and dividing practices 63Part II Interrogating policies as WPR applications4 Making and unmaking "problems" 71Understandings of "problems" in policy analysis 72Alcohol and other drug "problems" 77"Gender equality" 805 Making and unmaking "subjects" 87Education policy 90Health policy 92Immigration policy 94Economic policy 96Transport/environment policy 98Disability/equality policy 99Family policy <1016 Making and unmaking "objects" 104"traffic"/"cycling" 107"poverty"/"social inclusion" 109"addiction" 111"literacy" 114States of "wellbeing", "disability", "developing/developed" 1167 Making and unmaking "places" 120Making (up) "the state" 123Making (up) "Europe" 124Making (up) "urban"/"rural" "places" 127Making (up) "developed" and "developing" "places" 130Making (up) "public places" 1328 Conclusion 135 Poststructural Interview Politicizing "personhood" by Carol Bacchi and Jennifer Bonham 143Bibliography 155Index
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Published January 18, 2017
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November 26, 2024
En overskuelig guide til WPR-analysestrategien.
I bogen finder man også kapitler, der kort og godt forklarer svært håndgribelige poststrukturalistiske begreber fra Michel Foucaults forfatterskab såsom magt, viden, subjektivering, diskurs.
Første del af bogen er det (videnskabs-)teoretiske grundlag for metoden, formålet med strategien samt begrebsafklaringer.
Anden del af bogen er en sammenfatning af forskellige forskningsartikler, der har anvendt WPR til at analysere forskellige former for policy forskellige steder i verden. Her får man eksemplificeret, hvordan man kan analysere eksempelvis "subjekter", "objekter" og "problemer" (anførselstegn indikerer den poststrukturalistiske tilgang til disse begreber som ikke-fastlåste essenser eller entiteter).
Bogen er anbefalelsesværdig til alle der arbejder med policy og studerende, der ønsker en overskuelig poststrukturalistisk metode, der er let at gå til.
I bogen finder man også kapitler, der kort og godt forklarer svært håndgribelige poststrukturalistiske begreber fra Michel Foucaults forfatterskab såsom magt, viden, subjektivering, diskurs.
Første del af bogen er det (videnskabs-)teoretiske grundlag for metoden, formålet med strategien samt begrebsafklaringer.
Anden del af bogen er en sammenfatning af forskellige forskningsartikler, der har anvendt WPR til at analysere forskellige former for policy forskellige steder i verden. Her får man eksemplificeret, hvordan man kan analysere eksempelvis "subjekter", "objekter" og "problemer" (anførselstegn indikerer den poststrukturalistiske tilgang til disse begreber som ikke-fastlåste essenser eller entiteter).
Bogen er anbefalelsesværdig til alle der arbejder med policy og studerende, der ønsker en overskuelig poststrukturalistisk metode, der er let at gå til.
July 26, 2022
An excellent work that presents a framework for using Foucauldian & post-structuralist based analysis in the examination and critique of public policy, plus examples and applications of the framework.
The authors introduce a simple analytical tool: WPR = "What's the Problem Represented to be?" They argue that policies produce problems as particular type of problems, rather than the conventional assumption/assertion that they address extant issues.
Book has an excellent appendix outlining a very useful poststructural approach to (research) interview analysis.
The authors introduce a simple analytical tool: WPR = "What's the Problem Represented to be?" They argue that policies produce problems as particular type of problems, rather than the conventional assumption/assertion that they address extant issues.
Book has an excellent appendix outlining a very useful poststructural approach to (research) interview analysis.
March 31, 2019
A hard read, but useful when considering a critical approach to policy analysis.
October 18, 2025
3.5/5 stars. A practical guide to an approach to policy that is informed by Foucault's treatment of discourse.
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