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Foucault: power/knowledge nexus

For Foucault, knowledge and power are mutually supportive. He describes a knowledge-power nexus: the process of interpreting global politics is the exercise of power

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Foucault: power/knowledge nexus
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‘Real’ world is constituted by interpretations or representations
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All knowledge is socially & historically situated
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Fundamentally it is anti-foundationalist
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Production of knowledge = inherently normative & political process
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