Katja Bachmeier

Bio: Katja Bachmeier is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cognitive reframing & Politics. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 414 citations.

Powers Of Freedom Reframing Political Thought

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Data for life: Wearable technology and the design of self-care

Abstract: Over the last 5 years, wearable technology – comprising devices whose embedded sensors and analytic algorithms can track, analyze and guide wearers’ behavior – has increasingly captured the attention of venture capitalists, technology startups, established electronics companies and consumers. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted 2 years running at the Consumer Electronics Show and its Digital Health Summit, this article explores the vision of technologically assisted self-regulation that drives the design of wearable tracking technology. As key artifacts in a new cultural convergence of sensor technology and self-care that I call ‘data for life’, wearables are marketed as digital compasses whose continuous tracking capacities and big-data analytics can help consumers navigate the field of everyday choice making and better control how their bites, sips, steps and minutes of sleep add up to affect their health. By offering consumers a way to simultaneously embrace and outsource the task of lifestyle management, I argue, such products at once exemplify and short-circuit cultural ideals for individual responsibility and self-regulation.

Handbook of Crime Prevention and Community Safety

Abstract: With all due apologies to the aggregate age/crime curve, there is little denying that there is great variability between offenders and within offenders over time with respect to offending over the life course. Many persons offend, but only do so once. Others offend two or three times, and then stop. And a much smaller set of persons offend with high frequency and over longer periods of time. But much like a roller-coaster’s initial large incline to the top, participation and frequency of offending also exhibit declines over the life course until some finite (but difficult to identify without fail) endpoint. This decline in offending, is what is commonly referred to (but not always conceptually agreed upon) as desistance from crime. The topic of desistance is not necessarily a new one as it can be traced back to seminal works in the 19th century by both Quetelet (1831/1984) and Beccaria (1764/1992). However, it did not begin to take hold, at least empirically, until the Philadelphia Birth Cohort Study by Wolfgang et al. (1972/1987), who were the first to study transition probabilities and recidivism in a large sample of boys followed to late adolescence. Research on desistance, however, began to flourish after the U.S. National Research Council’s report on criminal careers (Blumstein et al., 1986), in which the Panel outlined a new paradigm that parceled out an individual’s offending career into distinct dimensions, with desistance emerging as a critical feature. Not surprisingly, much theoretical work was devoted to studying desistance, and policy-relevant discussion ensued in earnest, again not surprisingly because the justice system in general, and the correctional apparatus in particular, has a keen interest in curtailing offenders from persistent offending. Unfortunately, the study of desistance requires longitudinal data spanning at least the first two decades of life, but ideally would follow individuals much longer as antisocial behavior continues (to zig and zag) well into middle to late-middle adulthood. It was only until the last quarter century that such data sets “aged,” much like a fine wine or bourbon, and permitted such analyses both in the US and abroad. In this chapter, we provide an overview of the theoretical and conceptual issues surrounding the topic of desistance, as well as a review of the theoretical and empirical work regarding it. As well, we pay particular attention to the role of desistance in prevention, intervention, rehabilitation, and punishment programs and policies, and we highlight a few directions for empirical research. In doing so, we take a look at whether it is possible to “force the plant,” as the Gluecks (1937/1966, p. 205) wondered nearly 80 years ago, “so that benign maturation [desistance] will occur earlier than it seems to at present.”

Control by numbers: new managerialism and ranking in higher education

Abstract: This paper analyses the role of rankings as an instrument of new managerialism. It shows how rankings are reconstituting the purpose of universities, the role of academics and the definition of what it is to be a student. The paper opens by examining the forces that have facilitated the emergence of the ranking industry and the ideologies underpinning the so-called ‘global’ university rankings. It demonstrates how rankings are a part of politically inspired, performativity-led mode of governance, designed to ensure that universities are aligned with market values through systems of intensive auditing. It interrogates how the seemingly objective character of rankings, in particular the use of numbers, creates a facade of certainty that make them relatively unassailable: numerical ordering gives the impression that what is of value in education can be measured numerically, hierarchically ordered and incontrovertibly judged. The simplicity and accessibility of numerical rankings deflects attention from their...

Problematizations in Health Policy: Questioning How “Problems” Are Constituted in Policies

Abstract: 1. Carol Bacchi[1][1][⇑][2] 1. 1The University of Adelaide, South Australia, Australia 1. Carol Bacchi, Politics Department, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia. Email: carol.bacchi{at}adelaide.edu.au This article directs attention to the significance, for health promotion advocates, of reflecting on how “problems” are constituted, or brought into existence, as particular sorts of problems, within policies and policy proposals. To this end, it introduces a poststructural analytic strategy called “What’s the Problem Represented to be?” (WPR approach), and contrasts this perspective to the ways in which “problems” are commonly conceptualized in health policy analyses (e.g., “a problem stream,” “wicked problems”). Such a perspective offers a significant rethinking of the conventional emphasis on agenda setting and policy-making processes in considering the meaning of success or failure in health policy initiatives. The starting point is a close analysis of items that are “successful,” in the sense that they make the political agenda, to see how representations of “problems” within selected policies limit what is talked about as possible or desirable, or as impossible and undesirable. This form of analysis thus enables critical reflections on the substantive content of policy initiatives in health policy. The article takes a step back from policy process theories, frameworks, and models to offer reflections at the level of paradigms. Highlighting potential dangers and limitations in positivism, interpretivism, and critical realism, it uses international, Australian, and South Australian examples in health policy to explore what poststructural policy analysis contributes to understanding the broad political influences shaping contemporary modes of rule. [1]: #aff-1 [2]: #corresp-1