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'What's the problem represented to be?' : a new thinking paradigm / Carol Bacchi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bacchi, Carol Lee, author.
- 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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