Using Foucault's Methods

Born in London, Gavin Kendall was educated at Cambridge, Manchester and London Universities, and before moving to QUT, lectured for six years at Lancaster University. His books include The Sociology of Cosmopolitanism; State, Democracy and Globalization; Understanding Culture; and Using Foucault′s Methods. "I try to relate my teaching to my research, inasmuch as I try to always discuss my thinking on the key questions that have stayed with me through all my years as an undergraduate, a postgraduate, and an academic – questions of power and government, of the role of law, and of the limits of sovereignty."

`As a companion to Foucault′s original texts, carefully showing what he′s done and why -- and how that could be applied elsewhere -- it′s outstanding′ - www.theory.org.uk `Very much a `hands-on′ tool kit of a book, scholarly but accessible.... a very useful textbook which approaches its subject in an original way′ - Sociological Research Online`At last, a student-friendly guide that answers the question: "Yes, but how do you do Foucault?" Kendall and Wickham address the thorny question of how-to-Foucault in a clear, distinctive manner that stands out in the secondary literature on this important thinker′ - Toby Miller, New York University

• PART ONE: HISTORY, ARCHAEOLOGY, GENEALOGY AND DISCOURSE AS THE CORNERSTONES OF FOUCAULT′S METHODS`I′m Interested in Foucault, But Why Should I Be Interested in History?′`My Head is Spinning, Doesn′t History Have to Be More Orderly Than This?′PART TWO: SCIENCE AND CULTURE AS IMPORTANT OBJECTS OF ANALYSIS FOR THOSE USING FOUCAULT′S METHODS`Why Has Everybody Started Following Scientists Around?′`Have I Missed Something? Modernism Seems To Have Come and Gone, and Yet Never Appeared, and Power and Knowledge Seem To Have Become Door-Closers and Crustaceans′`Can I Apply This Stuff to Shakespeare and Shopping?′PART THREE: CONCLUSION`Is Foucault a Party Animal?′