The question is If you were to do a genealogy what do you think would be a interesting subject for inquiry? Please frame your discussion within genealogical studies and give examples.
Outline what Foucault means by ‘genealogy’ and how it differs from ‘traditional’ histories
• What is meant by writing a ‘History of the Present’? • YOU DON’T ACTUALLY DO A GENEALOGY!
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• Instead, you could:
• Identify an object or concept that might be subject to a genealogical inquiry
• Discuss what sources you might go to create an ‘archive’
• Explain what is missing from traditional historical approaches and what a genealogy might offer (eg. problematising the ‘normal’)
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