Reclaiming discursive practices as an analytic focus: Political implications.

This paper has its genesis in concerns about the return to "the real" in social and political theory and analysis. This trend is linked to a reaction against the "linguistic turn", on the grounds that an exclusive focus on language undercuts political analysis by refusing to engage with "material re...

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Publicado en:Foucault Studies no. 17; pp. 173 - 193
Autores principales: Bacchi, Carol, Bonham, Jennifer
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: University of Pennsylvania Press Apr2014
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