Discourse, Culture and Organization: Inquiries into Relational Structures of Power

✍ Scribed by Tomas Marttila

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing;Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 416
• Series: Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This edited volume brings together leading international researchers from across the social sciences to examine the theoretical premises, methodological options and critical potentials of the Essex School of discourse analysis, founded on the work of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe. In doing so, it presents a clear picture of a poststructuralist and post-foundational research program to postdisciplinary discourse research. Divided into three parts, it begins by elaborating the ontological, theoretical and methodological foundations of the Essex School’s approach to discourse analysis. The second part provides empirical case studies showing how the Essex School research program informs and instructs empirical discourse research. In the concluding third part authors explain how and with what possible consequences this strand of discourse research contributes to social practices of critique. It offers a crucial contribution to the further methodologization and operationalization of the Essex School’s approach so as to make it a viable alternative to discourse-analytical approaches that take dominant positions in today’s ‘field of discourse studies’. The book's transdisciplinary focus will attract readers who use discourse analysis in all areas of the social sciences and humanities, particularly applied linguistics, cultural anthropology, sociology, philosophy and history.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xix
Introduction to the Volume (Tomas Marttila)....Pages 1-14
Front Matter ....Pages 15-15
Post-foundational Discourse Analysis: Theoretical Premises and Methodological Options (Tomas Marttila)....Pages 17-42
Discourse and Heterogeneity (Lasse Thomassen)....Pages 43-61
Hegemony Analysis: Theory, Methodology and Research Practice (Martin Nonhoff)....Pages 63-104
The Retroductive Cycle: The Research Process in Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis (Jason Glynos, David Howarth)....Pages 105-125
Front Matter ....Pages 127-127
Eating Power: Food, Culture, and Politics (Fabio Parasecoli)....Pages 129-153
About Dislocations and Invitations: Deepening the Conceptualization of the Discursive-Material Knot (Nico Carpentier)....Pages 155-178
Rhetorical-Performative Analysis of the Urban Symbolic Landscape: Populism in Action (Emilia Palonen)....Pages 179-198
Solidarity in Europe and the Role of Immigration Policies: A Discourse Theoretical Perspective (Efharis Mascha)....Pages 199-222
‘The People’ and Its Antagonistic Other: The Populist Right-Wing Movement Pegida in Germany (Ronald Hartz)....Pages 223-244
‘Culture’ in German Media Discourses on Refugees: A Political Geography Perspective (Annika Mattissek, Tobias Schopper)....Pages 245-266
Populism Versus Anti-populism in the Greek Press: Post-Structuralist Discourse Theory Meets Corpus Linguistics (Nikos Nikisianis, Thomas Siomos, Yannis Stavrakakis, Grigoris Markou, Titika Dimitroulia)....Pages 267-295
Front Matter ....Pages 297-297
Tensions in the Post-Althusserian Project: Descriptive Indeterminacy and Normative Uncertainty (Geoff Boucher)....Pages 299-322
Post-foundationalism and the Possibility of Critique: Comparing Laclau and Mouffe (Marius Hildebrand, Astrid Séville)....Pages 323-342
Post-foundationalism, Systems Theory and the Impossibility of Critique (Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen, Erik Højbjerg, Anders la Cour)....Pages 343-366
Back Matter ....Pages 367-407

✦ Subjects

Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Philosophy of Language; Research Methodology; Poststructuralism; Philosophy of the Social Sciences; Political Sociology