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Conventionally, a conclusion should sum up what has gone before, pull all the strands together and present a neat and strong résumé. But what a conclusion should also do is to suggest the wider implications of the project and to think about its continued development. During the incubation of this conclusion, Derrida’s words came to my mind: ‘one’s discourse leads to the conclusion that all conclusions are genuinely provisional and therefore inconclusive’.1 Undeniably we can draw some conclusions but like all good designs these observations generate possibilities for future research.
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Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1976), p. xiii.
Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction (Penguin, 1990), 1st pub. 1976.
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Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger: an analysis of concepts of pollution and taboo (Routledge, 2000), 1st pub. 1966, pp. 115–129.
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Simon Schama, Dead Certainties: Unwarranted Speculations (Penguin, 1998).
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Etherington-Wright, C. (2009). Conclusion. In: Gender, Professions and Discourse. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230595026_12
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