Deconstructing Representations and Representations of Deconstruction: on Moscovici Again, and Banchs

Abstract

This paper responds to Banchs' (1994) critique of my deconstruction of the Social Representations Theory (SRT) literature in Britain (Parker, 1989). Banchs identifies some ambiguities in that deconstruction, and offers some useful corrective elaborations of some of the more progressive aspects of SRT. Nevertheless, Banchs' critique should be understood as an interpretation of the theory as it is represented in a particular context, and my original deconstruction should be read as it applies to the dominant representation of the theory in another.