Focus on what's excluded/marginalised by mainstream theories/policies

Post-structuralism wants us to take seriously what is excluded and marginalised by mainstream theories and policies; to investigate how constructions of the social world, people, places, events make particular interpretations and policies seem natural/legitimate and others unnatural/illegitimate.

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Focus on what's excluded/marginalised by mainstream theories/policies
Analyse discursive practices in terms of history/genesis, not trut
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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