Situated in education policy analysis this book is at the cutting edge of major debates across
the social sciences regarding the nature of science qualitative quantitative tensions
post-foundational possibilities and the research policy nexus. Located between the aftermath
of poststructuralism and the new scientism afoot in neoliberal audit culture the book posits
an engaged social science that is accountable to complexity and the political value of not
being so sure. Its insistence is to put deconstruction to work in the midst of messiness
contingency and ambiguity. The book will be useful in courses on education feminist policy
analysis and qualitative research across disciplines.
