Between representation and narration: analysing policy frames

Braun, Kathrin

doi:10.4337/9781783472352.00033

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“…We therefore reflect on CEPs as a methodological-cumepistemological tool to suggest that instead of the engagement of publics, we instead speak about the engagement of knowledges that are embedded in wider social relations. We thus propose shifting our attention from citizens' attitudes toward biobanking (see Gaskell et al, 2012) to the question of how they process and frame (Goffman, 1974;Braun, 2015;Braun and Könninger, 2017) the information they receive during interactive settings, which results in a specific position on that matter. In the case of Austrian CEPs, this process is enacted through the recurrent concern about the "appropriateness" of research practice and development, which we identified in our data.…”

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From engaging publics to engaging knowledges: Enacting “appropriateness” in the Austrian biobank infrastructure

Goisauf

Durnová

2018

Public Underst Sci

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While there is consensus on the essential importance of public engagement in further developments of biobanking, the related investigation of public views predominantly focused on the concerns expressed by the publics, and the concrete format of public engagement, without delving into the ways these concerns are constituted. In this paper, we synthetize recent research on public engagement in order to describe the constitution of respective concerns as 'engagement of knowledges'. By shifting from 'publics' to 'knowledges', we draw attention to the interaction dynamic through which citizens embed the new knowledge they receive during expert interactions into the stock of knowledge they already possess. Analyzing our recent investigation of public views on biobanking in the form of citizen-expert panels (CEPs) in the Austrian infrastructure of biobanks (BBMRI.at), we trace this dynamic through citizens' recurrent concerns that the research and consent practices related to biobanking should be "appropriate".

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From engaging publics to engaging knowledges: Enacting “appropriateness” in the Austrian biobank infrastructure

Goisauf

Durnová

2018

Public Underst Sci

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“…Scholars of political discourse, such as van Dijk (1985), worked on frame analysis on a deeper, cognitive level, over which the capacity for individual intervention is small. Public policy studies, on the other hand, incorporated frame analysis on the borderline between full and limited agency capacity (Braun, 2015;Fischer, 2003;Rein & Schön, 1993).…”

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“…Frame analysis was used in public policy studies to provide the values, expectations and beliefs that shape public policies with visibility, which it did by bringing together different approaches, as Braun (2015) observed. Among these approaches is the one we used in this study, which, in connection with an intersectional gender stance, values the relationship between frames, ideologies and discourses, and places power relations, social exclusion and domination at the center of its analysis (Braun, 2015).…”

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“…In this article we reflect on this question by analyzing gender mainstreaming in child-care policy (daycare centers and parental leave) in Brazil during PT government, considering the disputes and the resistances to the inclusion of gender equality in this policy (Marcondes, 2019;Marcondes, Farah & Alves, 2019). To do so we mobilized elements from one of the interpretative aspects of public policy analysis, which is frame analysis (Braun, 2015;Fischer, 2003;Rein & Schön, 1993) linked to the concept of gender mainstreaming (Bacchi, 2005;Papa, 2012;Verloo & Lombardo, 2007). Starting from this theoretical link, we analyze the official discourse of the (re)instituted policy, which is mainly derived from documents, but complemented by interviews.…”

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Public Policy Frames and Gender mainstreaming: an analysis of childcare policy in Brazil during the left turn (2003-2016)

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Brazil was one of the countries that integrated Latin America’s left turn, a period in which social policies have become central. During the Labor Party’s Government (Partido dos Trabalhadores) (2013-2016), were developed institutional conditions to mainstream gender in public policies, which embraced the issue of the sexual division of labor. However, did it mean an effective reorientation of the childcare policy towards gender equality perspectives? This article aims to reflect upon this question, drawing on the gender mainstreaming concept. It is understood as a process of incorporation of feminist perspectives into the public policy framing, regarding the (re)definition of both the public problem and the course of state action. To do so, we carried out a qualitative study of gender mainstreaming on childcare policy (daycare centers and leaves), focusing on official discourses, mainly through documentary analysis. Based on the results analyzed, we identified the coexistence of two frames: “education and childcare rights” and “promotion of women's economic autonomy”. Since the first one has prevailed, we conclude that gender mainstreaming was marginal in the childcare policy, during the analyzed period.

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“…In a second step, the coded documents were analysed following an interpretive approach to research, framing these as ‘situationally embedded creations’ (Wolff, 2007: 285) produced for particular purposes and audiences. We thus reflected not only the content of the documents but also their position and the context for which they were produced: as elements of a ‘struggle over meaning’ (Braun, 2015) that display perspectives and intentions of its authors (Hammersley and Atkinson, 2007). These documents are in this sense an important source as they are both accounts of specific values and work performed by an actor and accounts for organizational activities, i.e., of how to formally intervene in such debates.…”

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Negotiating the reuse of health-data: Research, Big Data, and the European General Data Protection Regulation

Starkbaum

Felt

2019

Big Data & Society

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Before the EU General Data Protection Regulation entered into force in May 2018, we witnessed an intense struggle of actors associated with data-dependent fields of science, in particular health-related academia and biobanks striving for legal derogations for data reuse in research. These actors engaged in a similar line of argument and formed issue alliances to pool their collective power. Using descriptive coding followed by an interpretive analysis, this article investigates the argumentative repertoire of these actors and embeds the analysis in ethical debates on data sharing and biobank-related data governance. We observe efforts to perform a paradigmatic shift of the discourse around the General Data Protection Regulation-implementation away from ‘protecting data’ as key concern to ‘protecting health’ of individuals and societies at large. Instead of data protection, the key risks stressed by health researchers became potential obstacles to research. In line, exchange of information with data subjects is not a key concern in the arguments of biobank-related actors and it is assumed that patients want ‘their’ data to be used. We interpret these narratives as a ‘reaction’ to potential restrictions for data reuse and in line with a broader trend towards Big Data science, as the very idea of biobanking is conceptualized around long-term use of readily prepared data. We conclude that a sustainable implementation of biobanks needs not only to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation, but must proactively re-imagine its relation to citizens and data subjects in order to account for the various ways that science gets entangled with society.

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Between representation and narration: analysing policy frames

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From engaging publics to engaging knowledges: Enacting “appropriateness” in the Austrian biobank infrastructure

From engaging publics to engaging knowledges: Enacting “appropriateness” in the Austrian biobank infrastructure

Public Policy Frames and Gender mainstreaming: an analysis of childcare policy in Brazil during the left turn (2003-2016)

Negotiating the reuse of health-data: Research, Big Data, and the European General Data Protection Regulation

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