Problematization, or defining a phenomenon as a political problem, is a crucial step in any political process. It frames an issue as relevant and accessible to political action; it involves defining the nature of the problem, pointing to reasons for dealing with it, and identifying its causes as well as its possible solutions. In the words of Michel Foucault, ‘‘this transformation of a group of...

“What distinguishes early on the worst architect from the most expert of bee, is that she built the cell in her head befor building it in the beehive”, Karl Marx Although drawn from its context, the reflection of K. Marx is completely suitable to illustrate what we mean by problem building or “problematization”. Problematize, it is therefore to represent a complex situation (Vander Borght, 2006...

This article documents the practical efforts of a group of scientists designing an image-processing algorithm for saliency detection. By following the actors of this computer science project, the article shows that the problems often considered to be the starting points of computational models are in fact provisional results of time-consuming, collective and highly material processes that engag...

This study explores the failure of Thailand's Smart ID Card project through the lens of the actornetwork theory. It was found that the cause of failure came from (1) errors in problematization that initiated starting point failure, (2) incomplete interessement that created more chance of failure, and (3) uncontrolled chaos in the enrolment process.

This article contributes to the growing body of work exploring governmentality theory in housing and homelessness law by engaging, for first time, a Foucauldian neoliberal, risk framework recently enacted Homelessness Reduction Act 2017. locates place governmental activity be scrutinized as homeless population contends that 2017 (‘HRA 17ʹ) can interpreted operating according three intersecting ...

Deakin University’s institutional research repository DDeakin Research Online Research Online This is the published version (version of record) of: Pringle, Richard G. and Hickey, Christopher 2010-06, Negotiating masculinities via the moral problematization of sport, Sociology of sport journal, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 115-138. Available from Deakin Research Online: http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/D...