policy practice as key skills for social justice advocacy. It then moves on to introduce the broad field of critical policy analysis and identifies key differences between traditional and critical policy approaches before settling on a closer look at how poststructural policy analysis is conceptualised. From there, the rest of the chapter focuses on one example of how to apply Carol Bacchi’s (2009) ‘What’s the problem represented to be?’ (WPR) analytical framework for poststructural policy analysis in social justice research. Policy work for social justice
111 FOUR Post-work and post-structuralism: first past the post? Introduction This chapter looks at retirement and age-related pensions from the perspective of post-structuralism. It draws on the work of Michel Foucault and other scholars who identify with his approach. Although Foucault is often associated with post-modernism, his approach needs to be distinguished from such accounts. Post-modernism and ‘post-traditional’ perspectives pose a rather different set of questions that need to be acknowledged, and these are addressed in Chapter Five. Trying to
57 FIVE Care ethics, intersectionality and poststructuralism Nicki Ward Introduction Notions of identity, intersectionality and poststructuralism all involve a consideration of what it is to be ‘other’. As Simone de Beauvoir suggests: ‘Otherness is a fundamental category of human thought. Thus it is that no group even sets itself up as the One without at once setting up the Other’ (1972, p 17). While notions of ‘the one’ and ‘the other’ still inform understandings of identity, the categories that constitute oneness or otherness have become increasingly
1 Mark Edward Marx Through Post-Structuralism: Lyotard, Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze By Simon Choat Review by Mark Edward1 In Choat’s Marx Through Post-Structuralism one key claim is that different post- structural thinkers are engaged in the endeavour to provide a genuinely new materialist philosophy. Focusing on post-structuralist thinkers Jean-Francois Lyotard, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, Choat strives to investigate the influence of Marx and their attempts to create a materialist philosophy. In the following
1 Simon Choat Marx Through Post-Structuralism: Lyotard, Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze By Simon Choat Author’s Reply by Simon Choat1 I am enormously grateful to the editors of Global Discourse for this opportunity to respond to the three reviews of my book Marx Through Post-Structuralism, and equally grateful to the reviewers themselves for their careful readings, kind praise, and judicious and stimulating criticisms. My responses are offered in a spirit of intellectual generosity and I apologise in advance if reviewers or readers think I
1 Saul Newman Marx Through Post-Structuralism: Lyotard, Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze By Simon Choat Review by Saul Newman1 Simon Choat, in exploring an encounter between Marx’s thought and that of key post- structuralist thinkers, has done something important here. He has provided an alternate way of thinking about both Marx and post-structuralism, two critical perspectives that have hitherto been seen by many as irreconcilably opposed. From the point of view of the Marxist defenders of the faith, post-structuralists like Foucault
1 Jason Edwards Marx Through Post-Structuralism: Lyotard, Derrida, Foucault, Deleuze By Simon Choat Review by Jason Edwards1 Simon Choat’s Marx through Poststructuralism is an admirably clear book that convincingly puts the case for a re-evaluation of the work of some key post- structuralist thinkers (namely Lyotard, Derrida, Foucault and Deleuze) in light of the influence on them of Marx. More than this, he attempts to construct out of the engagement between Marx and these authors a conception of materialism that is relevant and useful
its narration of Marxism against poststructuralism ( Dixon and Jones 1998 ; Springer 2012 ). It is not surprising then that Marcuse’s contributions have largely been interpreted as distant and incompatible. For that reason, translating Marcuse for current theoretical conjunctures is warranted. In some circles, it may be sufficient that Marcuse is an interesting figure who offers important insights to contemporary issues about politics and space and their relation without fitting into a neat typology. For others, certain Marcusean commitments 1 continue to
This book analyses the strategies used by public authorities to expand the UK aviation industry in relation to growing political opposition and the negative impact of flying on local communities and climate change.
Its genealogical investigations show how governmental practices and technologies designed to depoliticise aviation and expand airports have generally failed to constitute an effective political will to counter community resistance and environmental protest. Criticising the dominant logics of UK airport expansion, the authors promote a radical rethinking of our attitudes to aviation in terms of sufficiency, degrowth and alternative hedonism, laying the ground for a more sustainable future.
This chapter sets out our theoretical approach to the dialectical complexities of politicisation and depoliticisation, and their impact on the struggle for policy hegemony. Using the resources of poststructuralist discourse theory, we begin by intervening in contemporary debates about the concept of depoliticisation to disclose a number of questions for further investigation and clarification. We then develop our core assumptions and show how the interacting logics of politicisation and depoliticisation are intimately intertwined, and how they can be further specified through the concept of hegemony and antagonism. In particular, we connect the dialectics of politicisation and depoliticisation to the logics of equivalence and difference, and the production and dissemination of fantasmatic images and narratives, before turning to the multiple rationalities, technologies and techniques through which government seeks to make controversial issues ‘governable’ and tractable. The chapter concludes by articulating the logic of depoliticisation, which consists of a process, a state of affairs and an accompanying set of practices, where all three elements are intimately connected to the primacy of politics. Finally, we connect these theoretical concepts and logics to the problems of policy analysis in the field of UK aviation and the struggle for policy hegemony.
