In this article, I discuss the vitality and the limits of the poststructural archive. I argue against
the temptation to essentialise poststructuralism or define its ‘ontology’; instead, I present …

… Poststructuralism is a style of critical reasoning that focuses on … Poststructuralism concentrates
on the moment when we … By so clearly identifying points of slippage, poststructuralism …

… This is the first introduction to poststructuralism through its major theorists … poststructuralism
are also assessed. The aim throughout is to illuminate the main methods of poststructuralism …

… Our interest in poststructuralism in applied linguistics arises from our work as language
teachers and … First, poststructuralism constitutes a set of theoretical stances that serve to critique …

… The assumptions that poststructuralist thinkers are doubtful of remain part of … poststructuralism
challenges these assumptions, it can be difficult to grasp. Understanding poststructuralist …

… three things which give poststructuralism its unique place … term ‘poststructuralism’stems
from the fact that poststructuralism is … , it should be clear that poststructuralism is not simply the ‘…

… those inspired by poststructuralist thinkers (see Lawler 2008). Poststructuralist work is not …
The chapter starts by outlining the way in which poststructuralist work has shown discourses …

… poststructuralist, differ from the Kojevian hypothesis recently echoed by Fukuyama, that
history has come to an end and that we dwell now in a posthistorical time. The poststructuralist …

… Poststructuralism … , that poststructuralism locates them in the mind of the reader, holding
that we make them up, or that interpretation is purely ‘subjective’? Not at all. The poststructuralist …

All sciences, including human and cultural sciences, begin with the assumption that the field
of objects and events they study is structured. In all fields of empirical study, structure is a …