Engaging with Carol Bacchi

Engaging with Carol Bacchi

Strategic Interventions and Exchanges

edited by Angelique Bletsas and Chris Beasley


FREE | 2012 | Ebook (PDF) | 978-0-9871718-5-6 | 168 pp

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    Introduction
    Angelique Bletsas and Chris Beasley
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    PART I — LOOKING BACK: ON BEGINNING

    1. From women's history to women's policy: Pathways and partnerships
    Alison Mackinnon
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    PART 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
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    3. Women, Policy and Politics: Recasting policy studies
    Susan Goodwin
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    4. Spaces between: Elaborating the theoretical underpinnings of the ‘W±Ê¸é’ approach and its significance for contemporary scholarship
    Angelique Bletsas
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    5. Digging deeper: The challenge of problematising ‘inclusive development’ and ‘disability mainstreaming’
    Nina Marshall
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    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
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    7. Located subjects: The daily lives of policy workers
    Zoë Gill
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    Additional interventions: Select reading list
    Angelique Bletsas and Chris Beasley
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    PART III — STRATEGIC EXCHANGES: THE WIDER CONTEXT

    8. Making politics fleshly: The ethic of social flesh
    Chris Beasley and Carol Bacchi
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    9. Post-structural comparative politics: Acknowledging the political effects of research
    Malin Rönnblom
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    PART IV — LOOKING FORWARD: STILL ENGAGED

    10. Strategic interventions and ontological politics: Research as political practice
    Carol Bacchi
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Carol Bacchi’s scholarship is both substantial and wide-ranging. Beginning her academic career as a historian in the field of English-Canadian women’s suffrage, Bacchi has made innovative and insightful contributions to the fields of feminist theory, critical policy studies, and post-structuralist theory. One of the characteristic traits of her scholarship is her interest in revising and revisiting analytic problems from a range of perspectives...

This resolute analytical rigour is undoubtedly evident in Bacchi’s ‘What’s the Problem Represented to be?’ (‘W±Ê¸é’) approach, which is perhaps her most crucial contribution to intellectual inquiry and certainly one of the most innovative analytical frameworks developed in recent times...

This book illuminates, commemorates, and builds upon Bacchi’s ‘W±Ê¸é’ approach. It outlines the trajectory of the development of the ‘W±Ê¸é’ 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.

This book arose out of a conference organised by the Fay Gale Centre for Research on Gender at The ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide honouring Carol Bacchi’s work and is intended to make that work accessible to a range of audiences.

- from the Introduction, by Angeliques Bletsas and Chris Beasley