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Public policy is often framed as a response to social problems rather than the cause of them. Carol Bacchi's influential 'What's the Problem Represented to Be?' (WPR) approach - first published in her 2009 book, Analysing Policy - addresses this contrast and has become an essential methodology for post-structural analysis of public policy.
This edited volume brings together leading international scholars to rethink, extend and reflect on the WPR approach in novel ways, demonstrating its applicability beyond policy documents and across diverse social science disciplines. It presents innovative perspectives on a radical methodology, making it a must-read for research methods scholars and critical policy analysts.
Engaging with multiple theories, concepts and purposes, this book provides cutting-edge insights and real-world applications that make it an essential tool for interrogating policy and power in practice.
Contents
Part 1: Rethinking WPR
1. Thinking with the What's the Problem Represented to Be? critical approach to research and analysis - Malin Rönnblom and Rosalind Edwards
2. What's the 'problem' of 'underlying health conditions' represented to be? Applying WPR to concepts - Carol Bacchi and Anne Wilson
3. Comparing and contrasting WPR and CDA: divergent conceptions of discourse and distinct analytical strategies - Jian Wu
4. Genealogy and WPR: The importance of Bacchi's questions when evoking a genealogical sensibility - Stephen Kelly
Part 2: Extending WPR
5. WPR and construction of the object as lenses to understand governing families through AI technologies: combining epistemologies - Rosalind Edwards and Pamela Ugwudike
6. When critical hands touch: towards decolonial policy analysis - Amelia Odida
7. Where is the problem represented to be? - Tomas Mitander and Andreas Öjehag Pettersson
8. Emotional problems: post-structural policy analysis and emotional discourses in the case of birth tourism - Stephanie Paterson and Lindsay Larios
9. Winding up the future: the crank radio as policy - Lina Rahm and Jorgen Behrendtz
Part 3: Reflecting on WPR
10. Enabling self-problematising? Strategically choosing re-analysis and co-authorship with an attention to difference - Hanne Marlene Dahl
11. Reflecting on the value of WPR framework as a teaching tool in public policy analysis - John Boswell
12. Doing WPR with practitioners - from emotions to a potential for political change - Malin Rönnblom
13. Concluding conversation on thinking with WPR - Malin Rönnblom and Rosalind Edwards