Anna Durnová
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 367679 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Anna Durnová |
| NOMBRES | Anna |
| APELLIDO | Durnová |
| FIRMA | DURNOVÁ A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Vienna |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5789-1850 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 241 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2011 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
How am I supposed to feel?’
This article examines the emotional dimensions of abortion decisions in Austria, where abortion remains legally restricted and socially stigmatised. Unlike in countries with more liberal reproductive laws, the Austrian legal framework imposes strict time limits and conditions on abortion, while public discourse is dominated by conservative actors and the Catholic Church in particular. This article explores how these constraints shape individual e…
Political emotions
The climate crisis and the policy measures intended to address it have become deeply polarized, reflecting broader political divisions. While emotions are increasingly acknowledged as central to policymaking, they are still often framed in policy debates as obstacles to rational decision-making. This persists despite substantial scholarship in political psychology showing that emotions are integral to rationality. This research note introduces th…
Characterizing allies and opponents in gender policy debates
Two perceptions can be found in any public debate: first, perceptions of the self and how a person describes their own beliefs and emotions; and second, perceptions of the other and how a person ascribes beliefs and emotions to their allies and opponents. These perceptions of allies and opponents have been topics of study in research on the Devil and Angel Shift, as found in the Advocacy Coalition Framework. The goal of this article is to build o…
Psychosocial well-being, policies, and the emotional boundaries of home
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly influenced public interventions concerning citizens' emotions.This paper delves into the associated policy discourse by examining the link between individual accounts of psychosocial well-being and their portrayal in public through policies and regulatory actions.The concept of emotional boundaries of home, elucidated through an analysis of citizen experiences during the initial year of the pandemic's lockd…
Emotions and the ‘truths’ of contentious politics
In a world of multiple crises -the heating of the planet, public health emergencies, economic meltdowns, sociopolitical polarisation and so on -truth is often politicised and then weaponised for political gain.This 'post-truth' rhetoric currently seems so prevalent that many of us now avoid debating reasonable questions about politics, policy and society.The rhetoric has also led to increasing questions about the role and importance of expertise …
Exploring emotional discourses
Emotions are involved in virtually every aspect of human cognition, including information processing and decision-making. Thus, to understand political conflict and policy decision-making more fully, we must strive to understand the role of emotions in these phenomena. This paper explores expressed emotions in protests related to the policy decisions around the COVID-19 pandemic. We collect and analyze data on expressed emotions from protests in …
Empowered or patronized? The role of emotions in policies and professional discourses on birth care
While the focus on emotions has been associated with the rise of psychosocial welfare and has promised a gateway to accommodate individually diversified needs of citizens in policies, the article shows that the role of emotions needs to be better understood. Highlighting emotions can serve both to empower and to patronize those who experience them. Referring to emotions can thus strengthen hierarchies and downplay individual requests to initiate …
The Czech Home Birth Controversy as an Example of the Activation of the Civil Sphere
The article analyses the public dispute over homebirths in Czechia over the past two decades using the concept of 'societalisation'. The analysis structures the evolution of the dispute into five phases that reflect the evolution of the homebirth issue from the perspective of civil sphere dynamics. One of the key moments in the societalisation process 'code-switching'. In the Czech homebirth context, code-switching occurs when homebirth ceases to…
Navigating the role of emotions in expertise
Despite the abundant scholarship on sociopolitical embeddedness of expertise, its relation to emotions remains understudied. The paper fills this gap by discussing how public framings of expertise work against the inclusion of emotional contexts, affecting what kind of professional knowledge dominates in a public debate. The analysis of the Czech public debate on birth care shows that while midwives embrace emotional contexts of birthing and inte…
Making interpretive policy analysis critical and societally relevant
This article summarises the main achievements of interpretive approaches to policy analysis and signposts ways to develop them to strengthen inclusivity and diversity. By visualising tangible strategies used in the approach, it demonstrates how we can better understand how policies are made and understood. At the same time, the article places a strong focus on emotions and ethnography as a way to strengthen the societal relevance of the approach.…
Introduction
We live in times when being in rage with expertise has become a legitimate political stance for many citizens. At first sight, the rage seemed like one of those commonly known civil protests: citizens took it to the streets; they signed petitions and used all the usual means of democratic protests. Nevertheless, this time, the target of their rage has neither been politicians nor legal actions but experts. What such a change of target means and w…
Policy expertise and culture
Modern governments which have placed expertise at the core of their governing have always worked with cultural context so as to raise arguments for their policies and to legitimize them. While traditional approaches to culture in public policy have marginalized it as a discursive battlefield, this article offers new insights into the role of culture in policy expertise. In order to do so, it proposes “civil sexuality” as a conceptual lens through…
Intimacy, home, and emotions in the era of the pandemic
While much of the sociological scholarship on intimacy has been understood in the normative sense of foregrounding and supporting human closeness, this article points to the role intimacy has as a sociological concept to better understand regulatory ties between the subject and the institution. While subject and institution are treated by modernity as distinct entities, separated by the boundary between private and the public, the article elucida…
Tormenta en un vaso de agua? Hacia nuevas colaboraciones entre los enfoques convencionales de estudios de los procesos de política pública y los enfoques interpretativos de política pública
Una “tormenta en un vaso de agua” es una expresión para referirse a un problema al que se le ha dado una dimensión desproporcionada. Precisamente así vemos la supuesta división entre dos tradiciones de investigación: el estudio convencional sobre procesos de política pública y el análisis interpretativo de la política pública. En este texto exploramos ambas tradiciones de investigación, comparando y contrastando sus puntos de vista sobre la defin…
Symposium
This mini-symposium revisits the three pillars of Deliberative Policy Analysis (DPA): deliberation, interpretation and practice. DPA was originally intended as a moral-analytical programme that integrated these pillars, but policy analysts working in this tradition seem to have mainly been guided by one specific pillar, interpretation We believe this has not only confounded the nature and potential of DPA but has also limited the knowledge and im…
Covid-19 and the policy sciences
Tempest in a teapot? Toward new collaborations between mainstream policy process studies and interpretive policy studies
Tempest in a teapot" is an idiom that refers to a problem that has been blown out of proportion, which is how we see the supposedly divisive relationship between two research traditions: mainstream policy process studies and interpretive policy studies. In this commentary, we explore both research traditions, comparing and contrasting their views of public policy and policy processes, uses of theories, and approaches to research. Our aim is not t…
From engaging publics to engaging knowledges
While there is consensus on the essential importance of public engagement in further developments of biobanking, the related investigation of public views predominantly focused on the concerns expressed by the publics, and the concrete formats of public engagement, without delving into the ways these concerns are constituted. In this article, we summarize recent research on public engagement in order to describe the constitution of respective con…
Unpacking emotional contexts of post-truth
We have landed in times when being in a rage against expertise is repeatedly highlighted as a legitimate political stance. While expertise has become an inherent part of policy-making, the public d
Der ‚March for Science‘ als Schauplatz der gesellschaftspolitischen Polarisierung zwischen Elite und Volk
Wissenschaftsverweigerung ist zu einem zentralen politischen Phänomen der Präsidentschaft von Donald Trump geworden. In Reaktion darauf haben sich bereits Anfang 2017 Wissenschaftler in den USA zusammengeschlossen, um die Wahrheit öffentlich zu verteidigen und auf die Gefahren von Trumps anti-wissenschaftlichem Kurs hinzuweisen. Der Höhepunkt dieser Proteste war der am 22. April 2017 organisierte March for Science, der im vorliegenden Beitrag ein…
Czech postcommunist trouble with participatory governance. Toward an analysis of the cultural agency of policy discourses
The article uses the postcommunist context to rethink the argumentative arena of current participatory governance. While citizen empowerment is a crucial component of participatory governance, it has not received much attention in either the policy or the research of the CEE region. Comparing two Czech prominent public controversies, the analysis reveals a mediating rejection of citizen empowerment because it is seen as being fundamentally oppose…
The Politics of Intimacy
Debates on the end-of-life controversy are complex because they seem to highjack national and cultural traditions. Where previous books have focused on ideological grounds, The Politics of Intimacy explores dying as the site where policies are negotiated and implemented. Intimacy comprises the emotional experience of the end of life and how we acknowledge it—or not—through institutions. This process shows that end-of-life controversy relies on th…
A tale of ‘fat cats’ and ‘stupid activists’
The article explores one of the biggest controversies over sustainability in modern Czech history, a protracted conflict over whether the Brno railway station should be re-built in a new location. By examining the language of the interaction between a ‘modernizing discourse’ and a ‘sustainability discourse’, the article highlights reflexivity as analytic enterprise that bares the governance dimension of policy conflicts. The reflexive analysis fo…
Graduate Students & Special Programs Funded
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Framing policy designs through contradictory emotions
In public policy scholarship on policy design, emotions are still treated as opposed to goals, and their presence is assumed to signal that things have gone wrong. We argue, however, that understanding how and for whom emotions matter is vital to the dynamics of policy designs because emotions are central to the capacity building of policy intermediaries and, with that, to the success of public policies. We examine the case of Czech single mother…
Covid-19 and the policy sciences
Making interpretive policy analysis critical and societally relevant
This article summarises the main achievements of interpretive approaches to policy analysis and signposts ways to develop them to strengthen inclusivity and diversity. By visualising tangible strategies used in the approach, it demonstrates how we can better understand how policies are made and understood. At the same time, the article places a strong focus on emotions and ethnography as a way to strengthen the societal relevance of the approach.…
Tempest in a teapot? Toward new collaborations between mainstream policy process studies and interpretive policy studies
Tempest in a teapot" is an idiom that refers to a problem that has been blown out of proportion, which is how we see the supposedly divisive relationship between two research traditions: mainstream policy process studies and interpretive policy studies. In this commentary, we explore both research traditions, comparing and contrasting their views of public policy and policy processes, uses of theories, and approaches to research. Our aim is not t…
Understanding Emotions in Policy Studies through Foucault and Deleuze
Discussing Foucault's and Deleuze's work on meaning-making, the article argues that we might make better use of the intersubjectivity of a meaning when interpreting emotions. Interpreting emotions in texts remains complicated because discussion on the ontological character of emotions sustains an opposition of emotion to meaning structures. Both Foucault and Deleuze conceive meaning-making through permanent oscillation between the subjective acco…
Exploring emotional discourses
Emotions are involved in virtually every aspect of human cognition, including information processing and decision-making. Thus, to understand political conflict and policy decision-making more fully, we must strive to understand the role of emotions in these phenomena. This paper explores expressed emotions in protests related to the policy decisions around the COVID-19 pandemic. We collect and analyze data on expressed emotions from protests in …
Intimacy, home, and emotions in the era of the pandemic
While much of the sociological scholarship on intimacy has been understood in the normative sense of foregrounding and supporting human closeness, this article points to the role intimacy has as a sociological concept to better understand regulatory ties between the subject and the institution. While subject and institution are treated by modernity as distinct entities, separated by the boundary between private and the public, the article elucida…
Framing policy designs through contradictory emotions
In public policy scholarship on policy design, emotions are still treated as opposed to goals, and their presence is assumed to signal that things have gone wrong. We argue, however, that understanding how and for whom emotions matter is vital to the dynamics of policy designs because emotions are central to the capacity building of policy intermediaries and, with that, to the success of public policies. We examine the case of Czech single mother…
Unpacking emotional contexts of post-truth
We have landed in times when being in a rage against expertise is repeatedly highlighted as a legitimate political stance. While expertise has become an inherent part of policy-making, the public d
Governing through intimacy
The article suggests that we can develop a better understanding of the dynamic of governing in social policies through the lens of ‘intimacy’. Intimacy – a deep personal knowledge about body and mind which changes during the dying process – encompasses validation of one’s emotional experience. In that way, intimacy links the emotional content of dying to discursive dimensions of dignity usually associated with end-of-life care. The analysis descr…
Les approches discursives des politiques publiques
Translated from French by Jasper Cooper
Interpretive policy analysis in a French setting. The Fifth Interpretive Policy Analysis Conference, Grenoble, June 2010
In this issue, authors present a collection of contributions that also draws on a French source: the 5th Interpretive Policy Analysis (IPA) Conference, which took place in Grenoble, France, from 23-25 June 2010
Navigating the role of emotions in expertise
Despite the abundant scholarship on sociopolitical embeddedness of expertise, its relation to emotions remains understudied. The paper fills this gap by discussing how public framings of expertise work against the inclusion of emotional contexts, affecting what kind of professional knowledge dominates in a public debate. The analysis of the Czech public debate on birth care shows that while midwives embrace emotional contexts of birthing and inte…
Characterizing allies and opponents in gender policy debates
Two perceptions can be found in any public debate: first, perceptions of the self and how a person describes their own beliefs and emotions; and second, perceptions of the other and how a person ascribes beliefs and emotions to their allies and opponents. These perceptions of allies and opponents have been topics of study in research on the Devil and Angel Shift, as found in the Advocacy Coalition Framework. The goal of this article is to build o…
Czech postcommunist trouble with participatory governance. Toward an analysis of the cultural agency of policy discourses
The article uses the postcommunist context to rethink the argumentative arena of current participatory governance. While citizen empowerment is a crucial component of participatory governance, it has not received much attention in either the policy or the research of the CEE region. Comparing two Czech prominent public controversies, the analysis reveals a mediating rejection of citizen empowerment because it is seen as being fundamentally oppose…
Political emotions
The climate crisis and the policy measures intended to address it have become deeply polarized, reflecting broader political divisions. While emotions are increasingly acknowledged as central to policymaking, they are still often framed in policy debates as obstacles to rational decision-making. This persists despite substantial scholarship in political psychology showing that emotions are integral to rationality. This research note introduces th…
Symposium
This mini-symposium revisits the three pillars of Deliberative Policy Analysis (DPA): deliberation, interpretation and practice. DPA was originally intended as a moral-analytical programme that integrated these pillars, but policy analysts working in this tradition seem to have mainly been guided by one specific pillar, interpretation We believe this has not only confounded the nature and potential of DPA but has also limited the knowledge and im…
Der ‚March for Science‘ als Schauplatz der gesellschaftspolitischen Polarisierung zwischen Elite und Volk
Wissenschaftsverweigerung ist zu einem zentralen politischen Phänomen der Präsidentschaft von Donald Trump geworden. In Reaktion darauf haben sich bereits Anfang 2017 Wissenschaftler in den USA zusammengeschlossen, um die Wahrheit öffentlich zu verteidigen und auf die Gefahren von Trumps anti-wissenschaftlichem Kurs hinzuweisen. Der Höhepunkt dieser Proteste war der am 22. April 2017 organisierte March for Science, der im vorliegenden Beitrag ein…
Between the individual and the collective
This article reacts on the reflection of the impressionistic character of interpretive research, as opposed to the ‘systematic character’ by John Boswell and Jack Corbett. By returning to ‘intersubjectivity’, the key notion of interpretation that has substantially framed the analytical apparatus of interpretive inquiry, I show that both impressionism and system can and should be embraced in interpretive inquiry, because they mirror the tension be…
Herbert Gottweis remembered by colleagues
Herbert Gottweis, Professor of Political Science at the University of Vienna, and a member of the Editorial Council of Critical Policy Studies, died on 31 March 2014 at the age of 56. Here, colleag
Interpretive policy analysis in a French setting. The Fifth Interpretive Policy Analysis Conference, Grenoble, June 2010
In this issue, authors present a collection of contributions that also draws on a French source: the 5th Interpretive Policy Analysis (IPA) Conference, which took place in Grenoble, France, from 23-25 June 2010
Governing through intimacy
The article suggests that we can develop a better understanding of the dynamic of governing in social policies through the lens of ‘intimacy’. Intimacy – a deep personal knowledge about body and mind which changes during the dying process – encompasses validation of one’s emotional experience. In that way, intimacy links the emotional content of dying to discursive dimensions of dignity usually associated with end-of-life care. The analysis descr…
Les approches discursives des politiques publiques
Translated from French by Jasper Cooper
Herbert Gottweis remembered by colleagues
Herbert Gottweis, Professor of Political Science at the University of Vienna, and a member of the Editorial Council of Critical Policy Studies, died on 31 March 2014 at the age of 56. Here, colleag
Societies in conflict
In looking back to the Eighth Interpretive Policy Analysis (IPA) Conference, which was entitled ‘Societies in Conflict: Experts, Public and Democracy’, we are confronted by manifold emotions. We re
Lost in translation
Durnová’s chapter sketches out the recent research on discourse and deliberation in policy in order to show that emotions represent a crucial point of intersection between the individual and the collective dimensions of discourse and, as such, structure deliberation. Emotions affect the nature of the knowledge at stake in deliberation, they shape the repartition of actors who take part in the process, and they shape the way in which they take par…
Introduction to critical policy studies
Handbook of Critical Policy Studies
Critical policy studies, as illustrated in this Handbook, challenges the conventional approaches public policy inquiry. But it offers important innovations as well, in particular its focus on discursive politics, policy argumentation and deliberation, and interpretive modes of analysis
Between the individual and the collective
This article reacts on the reflection of the impressionistic character of interpretive research, as opposed to the ‘systematic character’ by John Boswell and Jack Corbett. By returning to ‘intersubjectivity’, the key notion of interpretation that has substantially framed the analytical apparatus of interpretive inquiry, I show that both impressionism and system can and should be embraced in interpretive inquiry, because they mirror the tension be…
Handbook of Critical Policy Studies
The Politics of Intimacy
Debates on the end-of-life controversy are complex because they seem to highjack national and cultural traditions. Where previous books have focused on ideological grounds, The Politics of Intimacy explores dying as the site where policies are negotiated and implemented. Intimacy comprises the emotional experience of the end of life and how we acknowledge it—or not—through institutions. This process shows that end-of-life controversy relies on th…
A tale of ‘fat cats’ and ‘stupid activists’
The article explores one of the biggest controversies over sustainability in modern Czech history, a protracted conflict over whether the Brno railway station should be re-built in a new location. By examining the language of the interaction between a ‘modernizing discourse’ and a ‘sustainability discourse’, the article highlights reflexivity as analytic enterprise that bares the governance dimension of policy conflicts. The reflexive analysis fo…
Graduate Students & Special Programs Funded
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Framing policy designs through contradictory emotions
In public policy scholarship on policy design, emotions are still treated as opposed to goals, and their presence is assumed to signal that things have gone wrong. We argue, however, that understanding how and for whom emotions matter is vital to the dynamics of policy designs because emotions are central to the capacity building of policy intermediaries and, with that, to the success of public policies. We examine the case of Czech single mother…
Understanding Emotions in Policy Studies through Foucault and Deleuze
Discussing Foucault's and Deleuze's work on meaning-making, the article argues that we might make better use of the intersubjectivity of a meaning when interpreting emotions. Interpreting emotions in texts remains complicated because discussion on the ontological character of emotions sustains an opposition of emotion to meaning structures. Both Foucault and Deleuze conceive meaning-making through permanent oscillation between the subjective acco…
From engaging publics to engaging knowledges
While there is consensus on the essential importance of public engagement in further developments of biobanking, the related investigation of public views predominantly focused on the concerns expressed by the publics, and the concrete formats of public engagement, without delving into the ways these concerns are constituted. In this article, we summarize recent research on public engagement in order to describe the constitution of respective con…
Unpacking emotional contexts of post-truth
We have landed in times when being in a rage against expertise is repeatedly highlighted as a legitimate political stance. While expertise has become an inherent part of policy-making, the public d
Der ‚March for Science‘ als Schauplatz der gesellschaftspolitischen Polarisierung zwischen Elite und Volk
Wissenschaftsverweigerung ist zu einem zentralen politischen Phänomen der Präsidentschaft von Donald Trump geworden. In Reaktion darauf haben sich bereits Anfang 2017 Wissenschaftler in den USA zusammengeschlossen, um die Wahrheit öffentlich zu verteidigen und auf die Gefahren von Trumps anti-wissenschaftlichem Kurs hinzuweisen. Der Höhepunkt dieser Proteste war der am 22. April 2017 organisierte March for Science, der im vorliegenden Beitrag ein…
Czech postcommunist trouble with participatory governance. Toward an analysis of the cultural agency of policy discourses
The article uses the postcommunist context to rethink the argumentative arena of current participatory governance. While citizen empowerment is a crucial component of participatory governance, it has not received much attention in either the policy or the research of the CEE region. Comparing two Czech prominent public controversies, the analysis reveals a mediating rejection of citizen empowerment because it is seen as being fundamentally oppose…
Tormenta en un vaso de agua? Hacia nuevas colaboraciones entre los enfoques convencionales de estudios de los procesos de política pública y los enfoques interpretativos de política pública
Una “tormenta en un vaso de agua” es una expresión para referirse a un problema al que se le ha dado una dimensión desproporcionada. Precisamente así vemos la supuesta división entre dos tradiciones de investigación: el estudio convencional sobre procesos de política pública y el análisis interpretativo de la política pública. En este texto exploramos ambas tradiciones de investigación, comparando y contrastando sus puntos de vista sobre la defin…
Symposium
This mini-symposium revisits the three pillars of Deliberative Policy Analysis (DPA): deliberation, interpretation and practice. DPA was originally intended as a moral-analytical programme that integrated these pillars, but policy analysts working in this tradition seem to have mainly been guided by one specific pillar, interpretation We believe this has not only confounded the nature and potential of DPA but has also limited the knowledge and im…
Covid-19 and the policy sciences
Tempest in a teapot? Toward new collaborations between mainstream policy process studies and interpretive policy studies
Tempest in a teapot" is an idiom that refers to a problem that has been blown out of proportion, which is how we see the supposedly divisive relationship between two research traditions: mainstream policy process studies and interpretive policy studies. In this commentary, we explore both research traditions, comparing and contrasting their views of public policy and policy processes, uses of theories, and approaches to research. Our aim is not t…
Introduction
We live in times when being in rage with expertise has become a legitimate political stance for many citizens. At first sight, the rage seemed like one of those commonly known civil protests: citizens took it to the streets; they signed petitions and used all the usual means of democratic protests. Nevertheless, this time, the target of their rage has neither been politicians nor legal actions but experts. What such a change of target means and w…
Policy expertise and culture
Modern governments which have placed expertise at the core of their governing have always worked with cultural context so as to raise arguments for their policies and to legitimize them. While traditional approaches to culture in public policy have marginalized it as a discursive battlefield, this article offers new insights into the role of culture in policy expertise. In order to do so, it proposes “civil sexuality” as a conceptual lens through…
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