In the most general and ineluctable. sense, then, all scholarly thought is always political. This does not necessarily
mean.political the narrow sense of partisan (althugh this can often be the 'case),but rather inJthe sense that
what such thought is about, and who and what it is for are always the result of the result,of the interplay of.power within
disciplines and . the embeddedness 0f scholar work in the material and discursive contexts in which it is produced.