File spoon-archives/foucault.archive/foucault_1999/foucault.9910, message 50


Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 08:22:37 +1000
From: Diane Westerhuis <Diane.Westerhuis-AT-jcu.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Foucault & Colonial Contexts


At 18:16 16/10/99 +0100, you wrote:
>
>
>Has Foucault ever been concerned with applying his discourse/power
>concepts to colonial contexts? Except for some allusions in Discipline
>and Punish & History of Madness, I haven't found much on the 
>topic.
>
>Have perhaps other researchers used a discourse/power approach?
>in analyzing colonial contexts? I would especially be interested in an
>application to the conquest of America.
>Any hints would be much appreciated.
>

This would be very interesting to me also, in the context of the
colonisation in OZ and how our organisation of the colonial univeristy has
developed
Regards,
Diane

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