Bacchi

‘Question 1: What’s the problem represented to be in a policy or set of policies?

Question 2: What deep-seated propositions or assumptions underlie this representation? Identify binaries, key concepts and categories.

Question 3: How has this representation come about?

Question 4: What is left unproblematic in this representation? What are the silences? Can the problem be reconceptualised differently?

Question 5: What effects (discursive, subjectification, lived) are produced by this representation of the problem?

Question 6: How/where are dominant problem representations produced, disseminated and defended? How could they be contested/disrupted? Explore contradictions and discursive resources for reconceptualisation(re-problematization)'.