Foucault on Theorizing Specificity

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4476367
AutoresM Hannah (Department of Geography, Pennsylvania State University, 302 Walker Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA), Matthew G Hannah (0009-0009-9738-0268, Pennsylvania State University, autor de correspondencia)
Año1993
Volumen11
Número3
Páginas349-363
Fecha de publicación1993-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEnvironment and Planning D Society and Space (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0263-7758 • E-ISSN: 1472-3433
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1068/d110349
OpenAlexW2073803944
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas14

Philo has brought Foucault's early, 'archaeological' work to the attention of human geographers as a possible source of help in theorizing specificity. By contrast, in this paper the archaeological project is portrayed as an illuminating failure which holds valuable lessons for geographers. The archaeological period is placed in the context of Foucault's career, and then the Archaeology of Knowledge is situated as the arena for Foucault's most instructive encounters with the problems of necessity, contingency, and human subjectivity. Although Foucault's profound theoretical modesty does not solve the problem of how to theorize specificity, it does suggest that we make significant adjustments in our own attempts to do so. The implications of the argument are given a test drive through a brief reading of recent work by Thrift, after which a recasting of the notion of responsibility is put forward as a means of beginning to deal more bravely with poststrueturalism

Archaeology · Argument (complex analysis · Context (archaeology · Contingency · Epistemology · Linguistics · Michel foucault · Political science · Politics · Reading (process · Situated · Sociology · Subjectification · Subjectivity · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Computer Science · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · History · Law · Philosophy