ABSTRACT
In Chapter 2 I have chosen to allocate space to the methodological influences that have helped shape this book. In doing so I aim to make the link between the subject matter of this text and how the methodological resources that I draw on, assist in the discovery and analysis of these concerns. Chapter 2 explores how genealogy can be understood as a critical and interpretive act. The chapter attends to the relationship between Foucauldian archaeology and genealogy to help to lay the conceptual ground for this study, which is ‘genealogical in its design and archaeological in its method’ (Foucault, 2010b, p. 46). In this chapter I discuss Foucault’s use of the terms descent, emergence and problematisation, which situates genealogy as a form of critical history. My intention is to prepare the reader for the scope and scale of the chapters to follow.
