Critical Approaches

Critically-oriented work that directly addresses governance in ALS shares with a larger body of critically-oriented work that deals with many of the same concepts and situations a number of contributions and potential contributions to the developing analysis of the problematique of governance in ALS. This chapter looks for the contributions in both actual and potential intersections between critical theorizing and work on governance in ALS. It does so first by giving a brief introduction to what the broad-brush idea of critical approaches includes, and what those approaches share. From there, it moves on to the contributions to the study of governance in ALS from critically-oriented theory, focusing on three approaches: feminist theory, postcolonial/decolonial theory, and poststructuralist theory. We choose these three approaches as a focus not out of any claim to representativeness, but because we think that they provide an interesting cross-section of potential implications. The chapter concludes by considering the relationships among the various (potential and actual) contributions of critical theorizing to thinking about governance in ALS.