What's the Problem Represented to Be? : A New Thinking Paradigm (Hardcover)

Introduction: A New Thinking Paradigm: Beyond Problem Solving;?Part I: Introducing a WPR Approach??1. Initiating a WPR Analysis: Key Premises??2. Widening the Scope of Application
3. Troubling ‘Problems’: Challenges for Researchers;??Part II: Theoretical Elaborations??4. What is a ‘Subject’? Who is a ‘Subject’???5. The turn to ‘Practice’: What are ‘Practices’???6. Moving from ‘iBeingi Reflexive’ to iPractisingi ‘Self’-problematisation??7. Governmentality and WPR: Exploring Governing Practices??8. Cultivating a Genealogical Sensibility??9. The Politics of Change: ‘Resistance’, ‘Counter-conducts’ and ‘Subjugated Knowledges’;??Part III: Theoretical Engagements??10. Strategic Interventions: Feminisms, Problem Representations and Gendering Practices??11. Analysing Differencing Practices: Racialising, Colonising, Disabling, Heteronorming, Classing, Caste-ing??12. Problematising (in) a Material World: Empiricism, Description, Affectivity and Social Flesh??13. Critical questions: From ‘Ideology Critique’ to ‘Postcritique’??14. Questioning Performativity: What’s at Stake?;??Part IV: The Thorny Issue of ‘Mixed Methods’??15. Problematising (with) Paradigms: ‘Reality’, ‘Problems’ and ‘Mixed Methods’??16. Analysing Discourse/s as Knowledge Practices??17. How to Deal with ‘Data’?
18. The Use of Ethnography;??Part V: WPR and Governing in the Time of COVID-19??19. ‘Governing through Experimenting’: A Political Rationality??20. Researching a Pandemic
21. Applying WPR to Concepts: Questioning ‘Risk’, ‘Crisis’ and ‘Uncertainty’??22. Making Mortality ‘Social’: How Death Certificates Undermine the social Determinants of Health;? Conclusion: Why we Need a New Thinking Paradigm