Authors:
- Demonstrates the application of ethnography and participatory action research to ensure best policy outcomes
- Explains how auto-ethnography can build a bridge across disparate sectors
- Outlines how auto-ethnography can be used to reveal failures to capitalise on policy opportunities
- Frames the capabilities of prisoners with hearing loss in a human rights context
Buy it now
Buying options
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check for access.
Table of contents (6 chapters)
-
Front Matter
-
Back Matter
About this book
This book explores how public policy advocacy can be used to approach policy issue identification, resolution or, at the least, support the management of wicked policy issues. By describing how this type of advocacy draws on participatory action research, including ethnographic and auto-ethnographic models, this book offers a tool for public policy consumer advocates on how to apply the Human Capabilities Approach to address presenting public policy issues worldwide.
By applying these models to the situation of prisoners with hearing loss in New Zealand’s prisons, it identifies multiple causal factors for quality-of-life-limiting marginalization, e.g. social barriers (e.g. disability discrimination); environmental limitations (e.g. geographical and those introduced by incarceration); and individual responses in line with negative attitudes – both social and political, including the State’s denial of prisoners’ right to democratic participation by revoking their right to vote in general elections after sentencing. In addition, two other areas, namely blood safety and broadcast media captioning, are highlighted, showing that the skill of auto-ethnography is transferrable and can be applied to ensure effective consumer advocacy for a diverse range of issues that affect marginalized sectors.
Authors and Affiliations
-
NGO Services Limited, Auckland, New Zealand
Louise Sinden-Carroll
About the author
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Auto-ethnography in Public Policy Advocacy
Book Subtitle: Theory, Policy and Practice
Authors: Louise Sinden-Carroll
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1322-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-1321-9Published: 20 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4611-8Published: 23 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-1322-6Published: 28 July 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 187
Number of Illustrations: 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Ethnography, Public Policy, Methodology of the Social Sciences, Human Rights, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights