The ability to analyse raw data is an increasingly important skill in numerous fields, including
psychology, business, politics, media studies, international relations, criminology, sociology …

Narratives are increasingly subject to empirical study in a wide variety of disciplines.
However, in public policy, narratives are thought of almost exclusively as a poststructural …

Climate adaptation research increasingly focuses on the socio-cultural dimensions of
change. In this context, narrative research is often seen as a qualitative social science …

The scenarios and arguments that drive and sanction much of Third World rural
development are often dismissed as myths, ideologies, conventional wisdoms or fads. Yet …

What will it take to protect the global environment? In this book, Ronnie D. Lipschutz argues
that neither world government nor green economics can do the job. Governmental …

Given the ubiquitous presence of stories in every aspect of policy, it seemed inevitable that
sooner or later, stories would become a central object of study within policy analysis. As it …

Humans have made profound changes to the Earth. The resulting societal challenges of the
Anthropocene (eg, climate change and impacts, renewable energy, adaptive infrastructure …

This work explores the difficulties of solving contemporary environmental problems within
existing global institutions. It questions guidelines set out in recent influential policy reports …

NLIKE THEIR POSSIBILITIES for synergy, it is fairly easy to demonstrate that literature and
literary criticism are in ten-sion with social science and conventional policy analysis …

I work selectively with poststructuralist theories in order to give an account of the subject of
policy as a constitutive relationship between social policy and the embodied human subject …