Hall admired Foucault despite criticizing his underspecified account of resistance.

Evidence

Elsewhere, Stuart is critical of what he sees as the limitations of Foucauldian perspectives (not least in terms of what he sees as the inadequacy of their overgeneralized and insufficiently specified accounts of the limits of power, and of the particular sources of potential resistance in a given conjuncture). However, this essay as well as the section on modes of discourse analysis in his “The Work of Representation” are perhaps the two places where Stuart most clearly indicates his admiration for Foucault and his influence on his own later work. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 483

Categorization

• XREF: Hall’s critique of Foucault — overgeneralized power, unspecified resistance sources in a conjuncture — is a key caveat to carry into the Islamophobia readings that use a Foucauldian frame. — connects to: Omnipresent power undermines the grounding of resistance in Foucault’s theory — Alex Callinicos, Against Postmodernism: A Marxist…, 339