TY - JOUR AB - Purpose– This paper calls attention to the importance of historical research within “critical marketing studies”. It seeks to articulate a historical perspective based on the work of Michel Foucault.Design/methodology/approach– This paper is based on a close reading of relevant Foucaultian primary and secondary texts.Findings– Foucault's scholarship provides a useful counterpoint to the calls for critical theory to form the central paradigm in critical marketing studies, revealing a complex constellation of power/knowledge relations underpinning marketing theory, thought and pedagogy.Originality/value– This is a close reading and examination of a theoretically sophisticated, rigorous scholar who remains largely underexplored in relation to marketing theory and the history of marketing thought. VL - 3 IS - 4 SN - 1755-750X DO - 10.1108/17557501111183662 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/17557501111183662 AU - Tadajewski Mark PY - 2011 Y1 - 2011/01/01 TI - Producing historical critical marketing studies: theory, method and politics T2 - Journal of Historical Research in Marketing PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 549 EP - 575 Y2 - 2021/01/22 ER -