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45 Contemp. Drug Probs. 3 (2018)

handle is hein.journals/condp45 and id is 1 raw text is: Contemporary Issues Contemporary Drug Problems 2018, Vol. 45(1) 3-14 @ The Author(s) 2017 Reprints and permission: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav andDO: 10.1177/0091450917748760 journals.sagepub.com/home/cdx a Poststructural Analytic Strategy OSAGE Carol Bacchi' Abstract This article puts in question the usefulness of the concept of problem or problems in alcohol and drug research and theory. A focus on problematizations is defended as a more effective political intervention. Particular attention is directed to the place of problematization as a mediating concept in understanding how practices constitute objects and subjects, a proposition commonly linked to the ontological turn. To access and analyze problematizations, the article puts forward a Foucault- influenced poststructural analytic strategy called What's the Problem Represented to be? (WPR approach). Previously applied to the policy field, this article illustrates the usefulness of the WPR approach to interrogate the full range of governmental and knowledge practices. Examples of appli- cation of WPR from the alcohol and other drug field are highlighted throughout. The article extends this work by directing particular attention to the forms of politics facilitated through such an analytic strategy and to the importance of applying this form of questioning to one's own propositions and policy proposals. Keywords problem, problematizations, WPR, ontological turn, practices, objectivizations This article focuses on the desirability of replacing problems with problematizations in alcohol and other drug research and related social theory. It begins by elaborating concerns with the ways in which the concepts problem and problems operate in the alcohol and other drug field historically and currently. It then proceeds to explain how the study of problematizations produces insights into modes of governing and the enactment of subjects and objects. A poststructural analytic strategy, the What's the Problem Represented to be? (WPR approach), is offered as a means to undertake this form of study (Bacchi, 1999, 2009; Bacchi & Goodwin, 2016). Several researchers have already applied the WPR Department of Politics and International Studies, Faculty of Arts, School of Social Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Received November 6, 2017. Accepted for publication November 28, 2017. Corresponding Author: Carol Bacchi, Department of Politics and International Studies, Faculty of Arts, School of Social Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia. Email: carol.bacchi@adelaide.edu.au

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