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Talking to Foucault: Examining Marginalization and Exclusion in Academic Science
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Taboo
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April 1, 2006
- Author:
- McClam, Sherie
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Copyright informationCopyright Caddo Gap Press Spring 2006. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Although we usually think about writing as a mode of "telling" about the social world, writing is not just a moping-up activity at the end of a research project. Writing is also a way of "knowing"-a method of discovery and analysis. By writing in different ways, we discover new aspects of our top
ic and our relationship to it. Form and content are inseparable.
-Laurel Richardson
In this article, I invite you to join me as I follow Laurel Richardson's advice to use writing as a method of inquiry.1 To do so, I engage in a fictional conversation with Michel Foucault-later joined by actor-network theorist Michel Callon-in which I talk through and construct understanding(s) of and from my ...