This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Applying the discourse analysis methods of Michel Foucault to reports researched and published by the World Bank may reveal certain kinds of ...

If Foucault and other poststructuralist thinkers are right (and I believe they are), one is never outside of countervailing power relations in society, which means that, ineluctably, one is always ...

Through his genealogy of parrhesia in the ancient Greek, Hellenistic, Roman, and early Christian worlds, Foucault exposes the limits of political action and of philosophical critique as a means to ...

Dr. Bialostok is an educational and linguistic anthropologist by training. His research typically engages discourse analysis with social theory (mostly Foucault, Bourdieu), combining analysis of ...

When the Rosetta Stone, which dates back to ancient Egypt and the rein of the Ptolemies, was re-discovered in 1799 it provided an invaluable clue in deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs. The Rosetta Stone ...

This article examines the conceptualisation of ‘terrorism’ (as a politically engineered concept) and discourse as a function of power and a generally accepted outcome of the exercise of hegemony. We ...

The French historian of discourse, Michel Foucault, made a clear distinction between the "archive" and the method that he describes as archaeological. While this method does not require a trowel to ...

Forty years after his death in Paris on June 25, 1984, many of Michel Foucault’s once radical ideas now seem self-evident. Even critics like Noam Chomsky, who derided Foucault’s moral theories as ...