Critical Geographies with the State: The Problem of Social Vulnerability and the Politics of Engaged Research
Critical Geographies with the State: The Problem of Social Vulnerability and the Politics of Engaged Research
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国家的批判地理学：社会脆弱性问题和参与研究的政治
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2012
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P. O’Neill
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P. McGuirk;P. O’Neill
：国家治理社会脆弱性的干预凸显了当代国家的复杂性，其特点是新自由主义议程，但也以渐进式干预和对有效性的渴望为特征。本文利用与政府机构关于亨特地区社会脆弱性的合作研究来评估与国家合作进行关键地理研究的可取性。我们将国家视为有争议的领域，拥有动员各种政治项目的机构能力。我们认为，与国家合作进行批判性研究是可能的，动员国家机构促进渐进的政策制定也是可能的。本文探讨了我们如何利用参与式研究与国家机器内文本、技术和实践的生产和流通相结合，以实现理想的变革。虽然与国家的批判性研究涉及不确定性和妥协，没有永久的解决方案，但我们得出的结论是，国家必须继续以我们的批判性对话和实践为中心。
在本文中，我们提出了与国家一起进行政策导向研究的关键可能性。我们反思了与新南威尔士州亨特地区州政府机构开展的一项研究项目的经验，该项目涉及文本和技术的制作和使用，作为国家对社会脆弱性的干预措施。通过该项目的反思、协作方法和我们对关键 GIS 的使用，我们强调创造机会来改变社会脆弱性组成部分的概念化方式，质疑政策制定者对“相关”内容的看法，并改变框架合理性和由此产生的国家实践。因此，本文有助于我们了解战略研究实践，以与国家一起开展关键的、进步的项目。这种参与涉及不确定性和偶然的妥协。然而，作为不同政治项目聚集和推动的争论领域，各国必须在我们的批判性对话和批判性实践中保持中心地位。
: State interventions to govern social vulnerability highlight the complexity of contemporary states, marked by neoliberal agenda but also by progressive interventions and the desire for effectiveness. This paper draws on collaborative research with government agencies on social vulnerability in the Hunter region to assess the desirability of undertaking critical geographies with the state. We see states as contested terrains invested with the institutional capacity to mobilise diverse political projects. We argue that critical research in partnership with states is possible, as are mobilisations of the agency of state institutions to promote progressive policy development. The paper explores how we might use engaged research to intersect with the production and circulation of texts, technologies and practices within the state apparatus to achieve desirable change. While critical research with the state involves uncertainties and compromise, with no permanent resolutions, we conclude that states must remain centred in our critical conversations and praxis.
In this paper we advance the case for the critical possibilities of policy-oriented research with the state. We reflect on experiences of an engaged research project with state government agencies in the NSW Hunter Region involving the production and use of the texts and technologies as state interventions in social vulnerability. Working through the project's reflexive, collaborative methodologies and our use of critical GIS, we highlight the creation of opportunities to change how the components of social vulnerability were conceptualised, contest policymakers’ view of what was “relevant”, and shift framing rationalities and resultant state practices. As such the paper contributes to our knowledge of strategic research practices for pursuing critical, progressive projects with the state. Such engagement involves uncertainties and contingent compromise. Yet, as terrains of contestation wherein diverse political projects are assembled and propelled, states must remain centred in our critical conversations and in our critical praxis.