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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
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Focus on what's excluded/marginalised by mainstream theories/policies
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Foucault: 'archaeology' of knowledge = contingency of truth claims
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Foucault's study of madness = produced through social institutions
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Genealogy = critical interrogation of construction of history
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Regimes of truth emerge over time as certain ‘facts’ are naturalised
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