Engaging with Carol Bacchi : : strategic interventions and exchanges / / edited by Angelique Bletsas and Chris Beasley.

• TeilnehmendeR: Bletsas, Angelique,; Beasley, Chris,; University of Adelaide Press,
• Place / Publishing House: Adelaide : : The University of Adelaide Press,, 2012.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 156 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

This book illuminates, commemorates, and builds upon Bacchi’s ‘WPR’ approach. It outlines the trajectory of the development of the ‘WPR’ approach from Bacchi’s early engagements with feminist thinking, as an academic in scholarly environments which were often the preserve of men, towards the theoretical sophistication of an approach which requires an ongoing critical assessment of assumptions about the social world, social ‘problems’, policy agendas deemed to respond to those ‘problems’, and the researcher’s positioning.

Table of Contents

I. Looking back: on beginning -- 1. From women's history to women's policy: pathways and partnerships / Alison Mackinnon -- II. Strategic interventions and exchanges: reflections and applications of the 'what's the problem represented to be?' approach -- 2. Introducing the 'what's the problem represented to be?' approach / Carol Bacchi -- 3. Women, policy and politics: recasting policy studies / Susan Goodwin -- 4. Spaces between: elaborating the theoretical underpinnings of the 'WPR' approach and its significance for contemporary scholarship / Angelique Bletsas -- 5. Digging deeper: the challenge of problematising 'inclusive development' and 'disability mainstreaming' / Nina Marshall -- 6. Answering Bacchi: a conversation about the work and impact of Carol Bacchi in teaching, research and practice in public health / John Coveney and Christine Putland -- 7. Located subjects: the daily lives of policy workers / Zoe Gill -- III. Strategic exchanges: the wider context -- 8. Making politics fleshly: the ethic of social flesh / Chris Beasley and Carol Bacchi -- 9. Post-structural comparative politics: acknowledging the political effects of research / Malin Ronnblom -- IV. Looking forward: still engaged -- 10. Strategic interventions and ontological politics: research as political practice / Carol Bacchi.