Crossroads—Commentary: What Is Problematic about a Discourse Called “Unproblematic”?
这篇论文通过丰富实例分析话语如何创造制度、制度又如何创造话语，形成循环，并探讨这种循环如何被打破，同时关注抵抗的可能性及其缺失的意义。
This paper on discourse makes for lively reading, because it offers such rich examples of the discourse it analyzes. At different points in the paper, the author refers to the idea that “discourse creates institutions” as well as the idea that “institutions create discourse.” The power of discourse is that it creates a circular thread whose beginning and end are hard to find. This paper is therefore especially helpful by analyzing a discourse at the time it is fabricated, to trace how the reinforcing loop is set in motion. Moreover, the author does not lose sight of how the circle might be broken. While many accounts of strong social forces overlook the possibility of resistance, this paper remembers to look for glimmers of resistance and remark on the significance of their absence.