Articulations of Self and Politics in Activist Discourse

A Discourse Analysis of Critical Subjectivities in Minority Debates

Jan Zienkowski (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XIX, 451 Seiten

2016 | 1st ed. 2017
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-40702-9 (ISBN)

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This book focuses on the discursive processes that allow activists to make sense of themselves and of the modes of politics they engage in. It shows how political and metadiscursive awareness develop in tandem with a reconfiguration of one's sense of self. The author offers an integrated pragmatic and poststructuralist perspective on self and subjectivity. He draws on Essex style discourse theory, early pragmatist philosophy, and linguistic pragmatics, arguing for a notion of discourse as a multi-dimensional practice of articulation. Demonstrating the analytical power of this perspective, he puts his approach to work in an analysis of activist discourse on integration and minority issues in Flanders, Belgium. Subjects articulate a whole range of norms, values, identities and narratives to each other when they engage in political discourse. This book offers a way to analyse the logics that structure political awareness and the associated boundaries for discursive self-interpretation.

Jan Zienkowski is a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) at the University of Navarra (UNAV) in Pamplona, Spain. His research focuses on subjectivity, reflexivity and critique as articulated in large-scale political debates on migration, integration and neoliberalism. He seeks to understand how human beings deal with hegemony with varying degrees of critical and political awareness.

Chapter 1: Problematising Self and Politics in Activist Discourse.- Chapter 2: Discourse Theory on the Logics of Articulation, Politics and Subjectivity.- Chapter 3: The Pragmatic Dimension of Discourse as Articulation.- Chapter 4: Articulating the Problematic Of Integration in a Minority Debate.- Chapter 5: Self and Politics in Activist Discourse.- Chapter 6: Conclusion.

"This volume is an investigation of the logics and abstract categories that motivate the interplay between integration, racism, migration, and discrimination in the political engagements of Flemish, Belgian, and/or Moroccan activists and intellectuals in Flanders. ... This volume highlights the possibility of further nuancing discourse studies when approached from an interdisciplinary orientation." (Christian Go, Language in Society, Vol. 47 (04), June, 2018)

Erscheinungsdatum	13.09.2016
Reihe/Serie	Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse
Zusatzinfo	XIX, 451 p. 3 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften
Schlagworte	activist discourse • Discourse analysis • enunciative linguistics • Ethnography of communication • European politics • Germanic languages • Knowledge - Discourse • minority debates • political engagement • pragamatics • Pragmatics • Social Sciences • Sociolinguistics
ISBN-10	3-319-40702-3 / 3319407023
ISBN-13	978-3-319-40702-9 / 9783319407029
Zustand	Neuware