Poststructural Policy Analysis : A Guide to Practice (Hardcover)

Part I Asking new policy questions 1 Introduction 2 2 Making politics visible: The WPR approach 15 3 Key themes and concepts 33 Power, knowledge and resistance 34 Practices, events and relations 39 Discourses and discursive practices 43 Problematizing, problematizations, self-problematization 47 Governmentality: rationalities and technologies 52 Genealogy and subjugated knowledges 58 Subjectification, subject positions and dividing practices 63 Part II Interrogating policies as constitutive: WPR applications 4 Making and unmaking "problems" 71 Understandings of "problems" in policy analysis 72 Alcohol and other drug "problems" 77 "Gender equality" 80 5 Making and unmaking "subjects" 87 Education policy 90 Health policy 92 Immigration policy 94 Economic policy 96 Transport/environment policy 98 Disability/equality policy 99 Family policy 101 6 Making and unmaking "objects" 104 "traffic"/"cycling" 107 "poverty"/"social inclusion" 109 "addiction" 111 "literacy" 114 States of being: "wellbeing", "disability", "developing/developed" 116 7 Making and unmaking "places" 120 Making (up) "the state" 123 Making (up) "Europe" 124 Making (up) "urban"/"rural" "places" 127 Making (up) "developed" and "developing" "places" 130 Making (up) "public places" 132 8 Conclusion 135 Appendix: Poststructural Interview Analysis: Politicizing "personhood" by Carol Bacchi and Jennifer Bonham 143 Bibliography 155 Index