Abstract
In this chapter, we circle around an accidental archive of historical policy materials, the flotsam and jetsam of documents that informed the drafting of the national policy document Gender Equity: A Framework for Australian Schools (1997). We find ourselves increasingly entangled with the materials, implicated by them in larger debates and events, and in more intimate ways in our own personal histories. While we endeavour to ‘tame’ the archive, approaching it through what seems to be an appropriately systematic and rigorous policy analysis, we are at the same time undone, even at times overwhelmed by it. We wonder through this chapter whether feminist policy research demands a more ‘modest witnessing’ (Haraway, 1997) that does not lose sight of the situatedness or imbrication of policy researchers with the policies they research.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Intimate Accounts of Education Policy Research: The Practice of Methods |
Editors | Camilla Addey, Nelli Piattoeva |
Place of Publication | U.K. |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 137-152 |
Number of pages | 16 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781003123613 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780367642280 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2022 |