- Title
- Policy research as critical praxis
- Creator
- McGuirk, Pauline
- Relation
- Dialogues in Human Geography Vol. 1, Issue 2, p. 233-237
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2043820611404495
- Publisher
- Sage Publications
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2011
- Description
- In responding to Woods and Gardner’s (2011) article, this piece positions policy research as a potentially rich site for critical praxis. It works through the possibilities around (i) negotiating the politics of policy research; (ii) the iterative and hybrid nature of policy research; and (iii) the internally differentiated nature of states. While remaining clear-eyed around the limits Woods and Gardner point to that shape collaborative work around policy, the article argues that policy research can be a site where the ethical and normative commitments of a critical agenda can be pursued. This requires that we recognise, first, policy research as a context for situated knowledge production within the complex social terrain of the state and, second, the performative and constitutive effects of knowledge.
- Subject
- critical praxis; performative effect of knowledge; situated knowledge production
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1064355
- Identifier
- uon:17552
- Identifier
- ISSN:2043-8206
- Language
- eng
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