Analyse discursive practices in terms of history/genesis, not trut

Foucault: analyse the 'discursive practices' or speech acts that claim to represent knowledge. Rather than analyse discursive practices in terms of their truth, he analysed them in terms of their history or genesis = genealogical method.

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Analyse discursive practices in terms of history/genesis, not trut
Focus on what's excluded/marginalised by mainstream theories/policies
Foucault: 'archaeology' of knowledge = contingency of truth claims
Foucault's study of madness = produced through social institutions
Genealogy = critical interrogation of construction of history
Regimes of truth emerge over time as certain ‘facts’ are naturalised
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