Explore the text resources provided for each chapter.

Discourse analysis

There are good introductory lectures on Foucault's work on YouTube – indeed, you can watch Foucault himself lecture there – including this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X31ayDsG67U

Geographer Stuart Elden also gives an interesting account of Foucault's later work here

http://www.critical-theory.com/watch-stuart-eldens-great-lecture-on-foucaults-subjectivity-and-truth/

The Open University has a series of podcasts on iTunesU called 'Museums in contemporary society': click here to find them.

Now try out the exercises provided for these two chapters. The exercise for Chapter 8 is called ‘Discourse analysis II’ and the exercise for Chapter 9 is called ‘Discourse analysis II’ – both can be accessed by clicking the link on the left.