Poststructural interview analysis: Politicizing "personhood"

Abstract

This Appendix introduces a new poststructural approach to interview analysis. It outlines seven closely related processes that address the following questions: • precisely what is said in the interview? • how was it or is it possible to say those things? • which networks of relations (discursive practices) are relevant to the interview topic? • what do the selected “things said” produce as “subjects”, “objects” and “places”? • how do the interviewers and interviewees problematize “what they are, what they do, and the world in which they live” (Foucault, 1986: 10)? • which “things said” put in question pervasive ways of thinking? • what political consequences follow from interviewers’ selection and distribution practices?