Poststructural Policy Analysis

Carol Bacchi is Professor Emerita of Politics at the University of Adelaide, Australia. Her work over the past forty years has encouraged rethinking of taken-for-granted truths about women’s history, equality policy and public policy generally. Major publications include Same Difference: Feminism and Sexual Difference (1990/2024), Women, Policy and Politics: The Construction of Policy Problems (1999), The Politics of Affirmative Action: 'Women', Equality & Category Politics (1996) and Analysing Policy: What’s the Problem Represented to Be? (2009). Susan Goodwin is Professor of Policy Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. Her research focuses on social policy and policy processes, and she is involved in critical policy analysis with organisations at local, national and international levels. Her books include Working Across Difference: Social Work, Social Policy and Social Justice (2019), Markets, Rights and Power in Australian Social Policy (2015), Schools, Communities and Social Inclusion (2011) and Social Policy for Social Change (2010).

• Part I: Asking New Policy Questions.- Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Making Politics Visible: The WPR Approach.- Chapter 3: Key Themes and Concepts.- Part II: Interrogating Policies as Constitutive: WPR Applications.- Chapter 4: Making and Unmaking “problems”.- Chapter 5: Making and Unmaking “subjects”.- Chapter 6: Making and Unmaking “objects”.- Chapter 7: Making and Unmaking “places”.- Chapter 8: Poststructural Interview Analysis: Politicizing "personhood" by Carol Bacchi and Jennifer Bonham.- Chapter 9: Conclusion.- Bibliography.- Index.