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The paper brings a Foucault-influenced poststructural perspective to the topic. In this way it provokes a different form of critical analysis, asking what unexamined ways of thinking underpin specific policies. In this way it encourages policy researchers and policy makers to reflect critically on the frameworks of meaning they develop and deploy.
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The paper was inspired by the common-sense way in which both public commentary and public policy refer to "alcohol problems", as if they are self-evident. The poststructural perspective adopted in the paper encourages researchers to put in question what is taken to be self-evident. It shows that the concept "alcohol problems", as with other conceptual categories, has a history and is imbued with political implications. By teasing these out, the paper hopes to encourage researchers to self-problematize, that is, to query taken-for-granted frameworks of meaning.
Professor Carol Lee Bacchi
University of Adelaide
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This page is a summary of: Problematizations in Alcohol Policy, Contemporary Drug Problems, March 2015, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0091450915576116.
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