The Impact of Michel Foucault on the Social Sciences and Humanities
This book provides a welcome assessment of the wide-ranging impact of Michel Foucault's work upon a number of disciplines within the social sciences and humanities. It offers close textual readings of Foucault's work along with clear overviews of how his
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The Impact of Michel Foucault on the Social Sciences and Humanities Edited by
Moya Lloyd
Lecturer in Politics Queen's University Belfast
and
Andrew Thacker
Lecturer in English University of Ulster
at lordanstown
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Outside North America
ISBN 978-0-333-68432-0 ISBN 978-1-349-25101-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-25101-8
In North America ISBN 978-0-312-16429-4 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 96-27849 Transferred to digital printing 2002
Contents Preface and Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Strategies of Transgression Moya Lloyd and Andrew Thacker
1
Foucault and the Problem of Method Alan Apperley
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2 Foucault and the Writing of History Alldrew Thacker
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3 Surveillance-Free-Subjects Kevin Magill
54
4 Foucault's Ethics and Politics: A Strategy for Feminism? Moya Lloyd
78
5 Foucault and International Relations Theory Kimberly Hutchings
102
6 Rejecting Truthful Identities: Foucault, 'Race' and Politics Bob Carter
128
7 Strategies of Power: Legislating Worship and Religious Education Davilla Cooper
147
Bibliography
173
Index
184
Preface and Acknowledgements This book aims to survey the impact of the work of the French thinker Michel Foucault (1926--84) upon a number of different subjects and disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. Given the constraints of producing one smallish volume upon this topic we have eschewed any attempt to be allinclusive. We have, instead, tried to cover a significant range of subject areas, a range that will best illustrate the profound eff
