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Discourse, Culture and Organization

Inquiries into Relational Structures of Power

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Editors:
  1. Tomas Marttila

    1. Department of Sociology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany

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  • Explores what discourse analysis should focus on and how discourse analysis can be carried out
  • Examines lines of division that crisscross the field of discourse analysis and elaborates different theoretical-methodological positions
  • Explains the virtues of an integrative and transdisciplinary approach to discourse research

Part of the book series: Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse (PSDS)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction to the Volume

    • Tomas Marttila
    Pages 1-14

  4. Case Studies: Culture, Politics, Populism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127
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    2. Eating Power: Food, Culture, and Politics

      • Fabio Parasecoli
      Pages 129-153

    3. About Dislocations and Invitations: Deepening the Conceptualization of the Discursive-Material Knot

      • Nico Carpentier
      Pages 155-178

    4. Rhetorical-Performative Analysis of the Urban Symbolic Landscape: Populism in Action

      • Emilia Palonen
      Pages 179-198

    5. Solidarity in Europe and the Role of Immigration Policies: A Discourse Theoretical Perspective

      • Efharis Mascha
      Pages 199-222

    6. ‘The People’ and Its Antagonistic Other: The Populist Right-Wing Movement Pegida in Germany

      • Ronald Hartz
      Pages 223-244

    7. ‘Culture’ in German Media Discourses on Refugees: A Political Geography Perspective

      • Annika Mattissek, Tobias Schopper
      Pages 245-266

    8. 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

  5. Possibilities of Critique

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 297-297
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    2. Tensions in the Post-Althusserian Project: Descriptive Indeterminacy and Normative Uncertainty

      • Geoff Boucher
      Pages 299-322

    3. Post-foundationalism and the Possibility of Critique: Comparing Laclau and Mouffe

      • Marius Hildebrand, Astrid Séville
      Pages 323-342

    4. Post-foundationalism, Systems Theory and the Impossibility of Critique

      • Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen, Erik Højbjerg, Anders la Cour
      Pages 343-366

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 367-407
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About this book

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 ofthe 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.






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“Discourse, Culture and Organization is a highly original contribution to the field of discourse analysis and an important milestone for the presentation and systematization of the Essex  School with contributions from an outstanding range of scholars from different countries and disciplines.” (Daniel Wrana, the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany)

“This essential collection makes the insights of the Essex School of ideology and discourse analysis available to researchers across the social sciences. The range of expert and timely contributions reminds us of – and extends –  the School’s remarkable theoretical achievements,  as well as sites of contestation. But crucially we are shown how the theory translates into a toolkit for empirical, critically oriented work in specific settings. The result both complements and challenges more ‘mainstream’ approaches to the study of discourse.” (Will Leggett, University of Birmingham, UK)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Sociology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany

    Tomas Marttila

About the editor

Tomas Marttila is Senior Lecturer in sociology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany. His research examines the neoliberal culture of enterprise as well as transnational convergence of education policies. He is author of The Culture of Enterprise in Neoliberalism (2013) and Post-Foundational Discourse Analysis (2015).

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