Policies, Children, and Road Safety: contributions from the WPR approach to policy analysis

Cordeiro, Adriana Tenório; Mello, Sérgio Carvalho Benício de

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“…Bacchi's (2009) method of “What is the problem represented to be?” (WPR) has been used for the critical analysis of policies in Indonesia. The WPR approach has been used for various social policy analyses, including for children's and adolescent policies (see, for example, Bills & Howard, 2017; Cordeiro & Mello, 2020; Komai, 2021; Skovhus & Thomsen, 2017; Tawell & Mccluskey, 2021; Wismayanti et al., 2021). This approach provides a critical policy analysis method consisting of seven interrelated forms of questioning and analysis (Bacchi & Goodwin, 2016; Riemann, 2023).…”

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The representation of indigenous children in policies in Indonesia

Azzasyofia,

Fouche,

Beddoe

2024

Asian Soc Wrk & Pol Rev

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According to the Indonesian Child Protection Law, Number 35/2014, the group of children that should receive special protection are minorities and isolated children; this includes Indigenous children who mostly live in remote areas. Under this law, Indigenous children gain special protection, including facilities to share their cultural practices, practice their beliefs, and use their language. This article aimed to describe how Indigenous children have been represented in selected policies in Indonesia. The first step of a policy analysis approach known as “What's the problem represented to be” (WPR), introduced by Carol Bacchi in her book “Analysing policy: What's the problem represented to be?” in 2009, was applied to examine how Indigenous children in Indonesia are represented in six significant policies. Findings from the analysis indicate that the government of Indonesia acknowledges Indigenous rights. However, the policies describe Indigenous children as vulnerable and linked to social welfare problems. Social work core values state that respect for the dignity and worth of all human beings, promotion of welfare or well‐being, and social justice should be extended to Indigenous children. To promote well‐being, it is argued that social workers must be given more opportunities to be involved in policymaking and advocacy for implementing Indigenous children's policies in Indonesia.

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The representation of indigenous children in policies in Indonesia

Azzasyofia,

Fouche,

Beddoe

2024

Asian Soc Wrk & Pol Rev

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“…– is an analytic strategy to aid interrogation of the epistemologies of policy by testing out deeply ingrained assumptions that determine how we think about a problem and its possible solutions. Beyond Bacchi’s own work on gender equality policy (see Bacchi and Eveline, 1996), researchers have used a WPR approach to study disability (Marshall, 2012), road safety (Tenório Cordeiro and Benício de Mello, 2020), education (Boelskifte Skovhus and Thomsen, 2017), health (Alexander and Coveney, 2013) and other settings. Scholars working with the WPR method use it to ‘work backwards’ from relevant semiotic artefacts – policy acts or initiatives, insider interviews, industry reports, websites, political speeches, curriculum, guidelines and so on – to examine how a policy problem is represented.…”

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Enduring inequalities: Fifty years of gender equality talk in the media and cultural industries

Edmond

2023

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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This article provides a critical overview of gender equality talk within the media, arts and cultural industries, focusing on a case study of Australian cultural policy discourse from the 1970s to 2020s. It aims to expand on existing understandings of postfeminism and popular feminism by exploring how these sensibilities have been taken up and expressed within arts and cultural policy discourse. How has the problem of the cultural gender gap previously been understood? And how has that changed in light of increased public attention to feminist concerns? While there are important differences across the decades there are also recurring notions of pragmatism, self-empowerment, resilience, vigilance and trickle-down logics – which cultivate a sense of movement without progress. By looking at policy discourses and gender equality talk through a longer lens, considering situations of feminist visibility and invisibility, acceptance and repudiation, and inequalities that are speakable and unspeakable, we see how inequalities in the creative and cultural industries come to be both enduring and endurable.

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Policies, Children, and Road Safety: contributions from the WPR approach to policy analysis

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The representation of indigenous children in policies in Indonesia

The representation of indigenous children in policies in Indonesia

Enduring inequalities: Fifty years of gender equality talk in the media and cultural industries

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