Pub Date : 2022-05-21DOI: 10.1080/19460171.2022.2078731
M. Meesters, E. Turnhout, J. Behagel
ABSTRACT In this article, we analyze the role of measurement practices in a public dispute about the impacts of mining in the Netherlands. Drawing on studies of material participation and agential realism, we analyze how measurement practices shape the boundaries of subsurface objects. We detail how these boundaries become relevant for assessing mining impacts and show how this enables and constrains material participation. Simply put, if a process or thing is not measured into being, it cannot participate in negotiations about causality and impact. Our analysis shows that scientific conventions narrowly determined what measurements are credible and, consequently, limited the participation of other objects and processes in negotiations about damage and compensation. This underscores how ontological disagreements about the existence and measurability of subsurface processes affect what claims can be made. We conclude by discussing conditions for pluralist and equitable processes of material participation in measurement practices.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-17DOI: 10.1080/19460171.2022.2078987
Margaret Mattes
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Pub Date : 2022-04-24DOI: 10.1080/19460171.2022.2069584
Chi Kwok
References Bentham, J. 2011. The Panopticon Writings. USA and UK: Verso Books. Foucault, M. 2018 . “Discipline.” In Rethinking The Subject. James.D. Fabion, Paul Rabinow, eds. New York: Routledge, 60–69 9780429497643. doi:10.4324/9780429497643-4. Wilding, P., and V. George. 1975. “Social Values and Social Policy.” Journal of Social Policy 4 (4): 373–390. doi:10.1017/S0047279400000684. Zuboff, S. 2014. “A Digital Declaration.” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 15: 9 Accessed 18 03 2022. https:// opencuny.org/pnmarchive/files/2019/01/Zuboff-Digital-Declaration.pdf.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-21DOI: 10.1080/19460171.2022.2067070
Nandita Biswas Mellamphy, T. Girard, A. Campbell
ABSTRACT As an unprecedent global crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic required policy actors to make sense of the event while simultaneously constructing an effective policy response. In this article, we focus on the onset of the crisis in Canada and ask: how was a crisis narrative constructed and to what extent did the features of the emergent narrative vary across political elites? We bring together the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) with Foucault’s ‘biopolitics of population’ to explain the construction of an initial crisis narrative that is consistent with the economic rationale of neoliberal governmentalities. Using an original collection of 1,331 Hansard statements from Canadian Members of Parliament during the first wave (March to June 2020), we employ inductive content analysis to assess elements of narrative form. This article contributes to broader work seeking to understand how various actors construct narratives around the crisis and the consequences of such narrativization for policy responses.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-19DOI: 10.1080/19460171.2022.2065324
Mats Ekendahl, H. Keane, Dave Moore
ABSTRACT For public health interventions to be effective, they need to be supported or at least accepted by those affected, and social policy should therefore be understood as political and strategic. This raises questions about the relationship between the analytical, the political and the personal in policy processes. This article offers an in-depth analysis of such issues, as they were enacted during interviews with Swedish alcohol policy stakeholders. It focuses on the assumptions and a priori ‘truths’ articulated in interviews about Responsible Beverage Services (RBS) at Swedish football stadiums or ‘Football Without Bingeing’. We argue that the participants combined different narrative forms, such as seemingly objective chronological accounts and personal ethical judgments, in talking about the policy initiative. Through such narrative intersections, three key ‘truths’ were produced that reinforced the link between alcohol and violence, necessitated blanket population-level measures to reduce alcohol use and made gendered behavior an irrelevant policy target.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-12DOI: 10.1080/19460171.2022.2064889
Alexander Paulsson, N. Macheridis
ABSTRACT Recent developments in higher education have shown that policies that promote employability tend to be at odds with policies that aim to ensure a close relationship between teaching and research. In this article, we explore how university teachers enact a policy demanding a close relationship between research and teaching. Based on a conceptualization of educational labor practices as policy enactment, we show that teachers enact the policy by using scientific papers in class; by teaching students how to attain a ‘scientific attitude’; by drawing upon one’s own research experiences; and finally, by emphasizing formal competence. As the policy is enacted through educational labor practices, and those practices give higher education its meaning, the policy enactment is enabled by what we term the policy unconscious. This term denotes not only the educational labor practices by which the policy is enacted, but also the dialectics between the particular labor practices and the general meaning ascribed to higher education.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-10DOI: 10.1080/19460171.2022.2064319
A. Frankel, J. Bennett, Mathew Robinson, Walter F. Heinecke
ABSTRACT In this manuscript, we seek to understand how linguistic devices can be used to critique the moral and political frameworks surrounding the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). Specifically, we focus on two documents that reflect policy responses to the UNDRIP: (1) a press release from 13 September 2007 outlining the United States Government’s position in voting against the adoption of the UNDRIP, and (2) President Obama’s speech from 16 December 2010 about the reversal of said position. Through the use of TribalCrit to interpret our results, implications of our analyses point to the extent to which power is exercised within an announced position endorsing UNDRIP as an implicit pronouncement of state-centered goals.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-10DOI: 10.1080/19460171.2022.2064320
M. Z. Muttaqin
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Pub Date : 2022-04-03DOI: 10.1080/19460171.2022.2060844
Jennifer Dodge, L. Elgert, Regine Paul
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Pub Date : 2022-03-31DOI: 10.1080/19460171.2022.2060275
Noe John Joseph E. Sacramento
{"title":"Counting: how we use numbers to decide what matters","authors":"Noe John Joseph E. Sacramento","doi":"10.1080/19460171.2022.2060275","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2022.2060275","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51625,"journal":{"name":"Critical Policy Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2022-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48382998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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