Poststructural Policy Analysis: A Guide to Practice

Part I  Asking new policy questions1Introduction22Making politics visible: The WPR approach153Key themes and concepts33Power, knowledge and resistance34Practices, events and relations 39Discourses and discursive practices43Problematizing, problematizations, self-problematization47Governmentality: rationalities and technologies52Genealogy and subjugated knowledges58Subjectification, subject positions and dividing practices63Part IIInterrogating policies as constitutive: WPR applications4Making and unmaking "problems"71Understandings of "problems" in policy analysis72Alcohol and other drug "problems"77"Gender equality"805Making and unmaking "subjects"87Education policy90Health policy92Immigration policy94Economic policy96Transport/environment policy98Disability/equality policy99Family policy<1016Making and unmaking "objects"104"traffic"/"cycling"107"poverty"/"social inclusion"109"addiction"111"literacy"114States of being: "wellbeing", "disability", "developing/developed"1167Making 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"1328Conclusion135Appendix:     Poststructural Interview Analysis: Politicizing "personhood" by Carol Bacchi and Jennifer Bonham143Bibliography155Index