Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents iii
3. List of figures and tables v
4. Notes on contributors vi
5. Acknowledgements viii
6. 1 Thinking with the ‘What’s the problem represented to be?’ critical approach to research and analysis 1
7. PART I Rethinking WPR
8. 2 What’s the ‘problem’ of ‘underlying health conditions’ represented to be? Applying WPR to concepts 13
9. 3 Comparing and contrasting WPR and CDA: divergent conceptions of discourse and distinct analytical strategies 30
10. 4 Genealogy and WPR: the importance of Bacchi’s questions when evoking a genealogical sensibility 46
11. PART II Extending WPR
12. 5 WPR and construction of the object as a lens to understand governing families through AI technologies: combining epistemologies 65
13. 6 Where critical hands touch: towards decolonial policy analysis 81
14. 7 Where is the problem represented to be? 99
15. 8 Emotional problems: poststructural policy analysis and emotional discourses in the case of birth tourism 112
16. 9 Winding up the future? The crank radio as policy 127
17. PART III Reflecting on WPR
18. 10 Enabling self-problematising? Strategically choosing re-analysis and co-authorship with an attention to difference 149
19. 11 Reflecting on the value of the WPR framework as a teaching tool in public policy analysis 161
20. 12 Doing WPR analysis with practitioners: from emotions to political change 174
21. 13 Conclusion: A conversation about thinking with WPR 185
22. Index 198