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In person icon Critical Policy Studies Revisited: Extensions and Critique

Public Policy
Knowledge
Methods
P056
Anna Durnova
University of Vienna

In person icon Building: Joseph Black, Floor: 5, Room: A504

Thursday 14:00 - 15:40 BST (04/09/2014)

Abstract

Critical Policy Studies have been focusing on “arguments”, “discourses” and other “language practices” in order to examine the link between meaning and practice, whilst revealing the role of power in the policy process. In these approaches, arguments, discourses and/or language are constitutive of social relations: they do not merely describe an underlying social reality, but shape the latter by bringing things and objects into being. Alongside the recent works on discourse, language and meaning the present panel seeks to initiate an explicit investigation of current trends. We aim, first, to strengthen debates of methodological interest, particularly as they relate to language, argumentation and communication. Second, we would like to explore the relationship with other approaches that appear to be complementary.

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