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Historiography

a Foucauldian approach that traces the contingent emergence of present practices in order to unsettle their apparent necessity.

In historiography, history of the present refers to a Foucauldian approach that traces the contingent emergence of present practices in order to unsettle their apparent necessity. This meaning comes from Garland (2014) in Punishment & Society.[1]

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Garland, D. (2014). What is a “history of the present”? On Foucault’s genealogies and their critical preconditions. Punishment & Society, 16(4), 365-384. https://doi.org/10.1177/1462474514541711

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