The digital age transformed the traditional forms of violence but also caused new ones. The hopes to overcome the negative sides of the human community in the age of Internet and social networks have come true only to a certain degree. New 'weaker' and more democratic communication modes reproduce the system of control and overall oppressing structure of victimization, but in an even more inclusive sense.
The legitimacy of "Europe" and "the West" as identifiable territorial and imagined entities is in crisis. The awareness has grown of a world becoming more polycentric. At the same time, the field of Discourse Studies is growing at a dazzling rate across the globe. Discourse Studies is known for theoretical orientations and methodological tools that account for meaning production as a social practice mobilizing languages, media and technologies.
Discourse Studies cover a growing field of interdisciplinary research on meaning making practices, communicative activities and symbolic representations. Cultural studies, linguistics, media analysis, geography, and history, among others, highlight the role of texts, pictures and language in the constitution of truth and reality. Actor-oriented disciplines such as political science, sociology, pedagogy or economics and management studies are interested in the formation of subjectivities,
Discourse can be addressed as a vehicle for power, a positioning practice which enlightens the role and the relationship among the speakers. Power is a way of defying and measure relationships and interactions between individuals. These relations and interactions lead one part to affirm its will against another part, no matter on what bases this will is grounded (Weber, 1974).
Critical discourse analysts and theorists are not the only people involved in the articulation of critique in the public realm. Political debates typically consist of layers of meta-discourse. They are fundamentally discourse about discourse and could not exist without the reflexive features of articulatory practice. Many researchers in critical discourse studies focus on social and political debates related to issues such as class, migration, ecology, globalization, or economic crisis.
The Conference
Interpretive policy analysis engenders and embraces research which extends across the social sciences and is applied to a vast range of policy topics. The common intrest of interpretive approaches to policy analysis is the recognition of the importance of discourse, meaning making, interpretation and the performance of social practices both in devising and in enacting policy.
Due to the rise of the radical and populist right wing in the US and in Europe and due to pressures of globalization, immigration has become an important electoral and political topic. The immigrant, often metaphorically built as a problem or threat, has become the unwitting star of the political and cultural struggles for redefinition of national identities and liberal values such as tolerance, religious freedom, freedom of expression, or the political landscape itself, traditionally organized along the left/right axis.
La Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia a través del Cuerpo Académico de Análisis del Discurso y Semiótica de la Cultura y el Proyecto PAPIIT Emergencia e Interculturalidad (UNAM, Psicología) invita al:
Seminario
Dr. Johannes Angermuller (Universidad de Warwick, Reino Unido y École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Francia.
Análisis del discurso: problemáticas, tendencias, modelos analíticos
The language of citizenship has, in recent years, been mobilized by feminists
to articulate a wide range of claims and demands. The notions of economic,
political, social, cultural, sexual/ bodily, and intimate citizenship, for example,
have all been developed and explored in terms of their normative potential and
their actual realization. In Europe, in particular, there has been a strong steer
from research funders and policy makers towards research agendas which
address the question of citizenship in the context of increasingly diverse and
Please note the second call for papers for the interdisciplinary ‘Spectres of Class’ conference at the University of Chester, UK, on Friday 15- Saturday 16 July 2011 organised by the University of Chester English department in association with CADAAD (Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines).
We welcome abstracts of no more than 300 words by Friday 25 March 2011.