Discourse establishes authority through the formation of subjects, not mere assertion

Evidence

Asad’s notion of tradition is analytically useful because it helps me foreground questions of subject formation as a means of understanding how a particular discourse establishes its authority and truth within a historical moment. — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 820

Categorization

• XREF: Subject-formation as the site of authority connects to Foucault’s analytics (already in vault) and challenges liberal notions of autonomous agents. — connects to: Performative utterances create states of affairs rather than merely describing them. — Donald MacKenzie, An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial…, 83; Subjectivity forms through practice, not prior to it. — Yael Arbell, The Circle of Commoning:…, 85; Parliamentary discourse is a distinct genre defined by its institutional context — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1113
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival…, 820