regimes of truth

{{Short description|Philosophy term coined by Michel Foucault}}

Regimes of truth is a term coined by philosopher Michel Foucault, referring to a discourse that holds certain things to be "truths". Foucault sought to explore how knowledge and truth were produced by power structures of society.{{cite book |last1=Gore |first1=Jennifer |title=The Struggle for Pedagogies: Critical and Feminist Discourses as Regimes of Truth |date=2003 |publisher=Psychology Press |isbn=978-0-415-90564-0 |language=en}}{{cite journal |last1=Harding |first1=Sandra |title=Comment on Hekman's "Truth and Method: Feminist Standpoint Theory Revisited": Whose Standpoint Needs the Regimes of Truth and Reality? |journal=Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society |date=1997 |volume=22 |issue=2 |pages=382–391 |doi=10.1086/495163|s2cid=144301349 }}{{cite journal |last1=Carroll |first1=Sherrie |last2=Motha |first2=Suhanthie |last3=Price |first3=Jeremy N. |title=Accessing Imagined Communities and Reinscribing Regimes of Truth |journal=Critical Inquiry in Language Studies |date=2008 |volume=5 |issue=3 |pages=165–191 |doi=10.1080/15427580802285704|s2cid=143777911 }}{{cite journal |last1=Reyna |first1=Stephen P. |last2=Schiller |first2=Nina Glick |title=The pursuit of knowledge and regimes of truth |journal=Identities |date=1998 |volume=4 |issue=3–4 |pages=333–341 |doi=10.1080/1070289X.1998.9962594}}{{cite journal |last1=Gürpinar |first1=Doğan |title=Historical Revisionism vs. Conspiracy Theories: Transformations of Turkish Historical Scholarship and Conspiracy Theories as a Constitutive Element in Transforming Turkish Nationalism |journal=Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies |date=2013 |volume=15 |issue=4 |pages=412–433 |doi=10.1080/19448953.2013.844588|s2cid=145016215 }}{{cite journal |last1=Lincoln |first1=Yvonna S. |last2=Cannella |first2=Gaile S. |title=Dangerous Discourses: Methodological Conservatism and Governmental Regimes of Truth |journal=Qualitative Inquiry |date=2004 |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=5–14 |doi=10.1177/1077800403259717|s2cid=143754463 }}{{cite journal |last1=Lorenzini |first1=Daniele |title=What is a Regime of Truth? |journal=Le Foucaldien |date=2015 |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=1–5 |doi=10.16995/lefou.2 |url=https://www.genealogy-critique.net/article/id/7026/ |doi-access=free }}{{cite journal |last1=Costa |first1=James |title=Language endangerment and revitalisation as elements of regimes of truth: shifting terminology to shift perspective |journal=Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development |date=2013 |volume=34 |issue=4 |pages=317–331 |doi=10.1080/01434632.2013.794807|s2cid=56318705 |url=https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00825525/file/CostaFinal3.pdf }}