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'What's the problem represented to be?' : a new thinking paradigm / Carol Bacchi.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Bacchi, Carol Lee, author.
Contributor:
Taylor & Francis eBooks
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Policy sciences--Evaluation.
Policy sciences.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiii, 294 pages.)
Place of Publication:
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2026.
Contents:
Introduction: a new thinking paradigm
beyond problem-solving
Initiating a WPR analysis: key premises
Widening the scope of application
Troubling 'problems': challenges for researchers
What is a 'subject'? Who is a 'subject'?
The turn to 'practice': What are 'practices'?
Moving from 'being reflexive' to practising 'self'-problematisation
Governmentality and WPR: exploring governing practices
Cultivating a genealogical sensibility
The politics of change: 'resistance', 'counter-conducts' and 'subjugated knowledges'
Strategic interventions: feminisms, problem representations and gendering practices
Analysing differencing practices: racialising, colonising, disabling, heteronorming, classing, caste-ing
Problematising (in) a material world: empiricism, description, affectivity and social flesh
Critical questions: from 'ideology critique' to 'postcritique'
Questioning performativity: what's at stake?
Problematising (with) paradigms: 'reality', 'problems' and 'mixed methods'
Analysing discourse/s as knowledge practices
How to deal with 'data'
The use of ethnography
'Governing through experimenting': a political rationality
Researching a pandemic
Applying WPR to concepts: questioning 'risk', 'crisis' and 'uncertainty'
Making mortality 'social': how death certificates undermine the social determinants of health
Conclusion: why we need a new thinking paradigm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
9781040516317 (electronic bk.)
1040516319 (electronic bk.)
Publisher Number:
90104186538
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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