Self-Problematization

Self-problematization—the last ‘step’ in the WPR framework—is an essential step (Bacchi C, Goodwin S, Poststructural policy analysis: a guide to practice. Springer, 2016). It involves evaluation of one’s identified problematizations and their related assumptions, subjects and discursive practices. This scrutiny is important to turn the analytical gaze to oneself and realize that what the analyst produces through works such as this book is also (re)producing and co-constructing the discourses around public policy, much like the problematizations we identify. I present some key concerns that emerged during the self-problematization exercise, including exclusions of class, masculinities and the production of desire as important analytical apparatus in policy evaluation of anti-SHW policies.