What's the Problem Represented to Be? (Paperback)

Paperback. Originally developed as a mode of critical policy analysis, Whats the Problem Represented to Be?: A New Thinking Paradigm extends the thinking behind the innovative Whats the problem represented to be? (WPR) approach to new areas of investigation. It poses a challenge to problem-solving as the dominant way of thinking about human existence and human endeavours and offers a fresh alternative that turns attention to the contours of designated problems.By focusing on proposed solutions to conditions labelled problems, the WPR approach produces a dynamic form of analysis and critique targeting how problems are represented. This critical analytic posture is extended from problems to a wide range of putative conditions, including indeterminate situations, issues, controversies and matters of concern. In this new thinking paradigm, items, such as buildings and maps, are analysed as proposals for change and hence as problematisations, with important political implications. The book brings together the theoretical resources underpinning the WPR approach and considers important methodological ramifications. A table of WPR questions incorporates changes to the approach signalled in the book.This book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students, early career researchers and academics in a wide range of fields, including public policy, education, law, international relations and disability, Indigenous and feminists' studies.The Introduction and Chapters 1 and 2 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. This book extends the thinking behind the innovative Whats the Problem Represented to be? approach, to new areas of investigation. It poses a challenge to problem solving as the dominant way of thinking about human existence and human endeavours and offers a fresh alternative that turns attention to the contours of designated problems. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…