ABSTRACT
This chapter presents some of the theoretical inspirations serving as the foundation for author's analysis and his own epistemological framework. It supplements the Foucauldian notion of discourse with Judith Butler's work on gender subjectivities. The chapter looks at how discourse influences and forms social epistemologies about race and ethnicity, belonging and corporality. It also looks at the role of the statement within discourse and its link to creating subjects/objects within discourses on race and ethnicity, and the link between power and knowledge within discourse and the polyvalent nature of discourse. The statement in Foucault can be read as the smallest unit within a broader discourse which highlights phenomena through enunciation. The chapter elaborates on the selected documents as well as the methodology used to read them. Finally, it concludes with some remarks on the methods chosen, as well as the analytical worth of these choices.
