Working vocabulary for Michel Foucault’s critical theory as used in this module.
Methods:
- Archaeology — analyzing the rules that govern what can be said in a period
- Genealogy — tracing how concepts emerge through contingency and power
Concepts:
- Discourse — the rule-governed systems that determine what counts as knowledge
- knowledge — the mutual constitution of power relations and truth claims
- Biopower — power exercised through the management of populations as living beings
- Governmentality — the rationalities and techniques through which populations are governed