Questions of Method

By D. Polan. 2009

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Subfields: Cultural Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Planning as practice of knowing (2015, background): “It shapes their sense of ‘what counts as self-evident, universal and necessary’ (Foucault, 1991: 76) – what counts as knowledge and how the object of planning should be known and acted upon.”
How should we do the history of Big Data? (2016, background): “As he further explains, we need to attend to ‘the correlative formation of domains and objects and . . . the verifiable, falsifiable discourses that bear on them; and it’s not just their formation that interests me, but the effects in the real to which they are linked’ (Foucault, 1991: 85).”
Towards a theory of drug use contexts: Space, embodiment and practice (2007, background): “Foucault’s innovation lies in documenting how this focus on conduct underpins the development of a distinctly modern ‘‘arts of government’’ (Foucault 1991b).”
An Illusory Interiority: Interrogating the discourse/s of inclusion (2007, background): “Foucault argues we must ‘eschew the model of Leviathan in the study of power’ and ‘instead base our analysis of power on the study and tactics of domination’ (Foucault, 1980b, p. 102).”
The PISA mathematics regime: knowledge structures and practices of the self (2014, background): “True discourses “serve to found, justify and provide reasons and principles for these ways of doing things” (Foucault, 1991a, p. 79); “they are the fabric of a socially constructed, shared understanding of the world, which is in turn the means through which people and things are governed” (Olson,…”
Institutional change in economic geography (2014, background): “…analysis, as a starting point for wider explanation that includes the roles of agents and investigates seeming regularities strictly in the specific social and historical contexts within which they occur, as well as the reflexive relationship between object and subject (Foucault, 1980a, 2000).”