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Hale, Adrian. "Gender bender agenda: Dame Edna, k. d. lang and Ivana Trump." European Journal of Humour Research 4, no. 3 (October 15, 2016): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.7592/ejhr2016.4.3.hale.
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This paper asserts that we accept or reject humorous texts discursively on the basis of what we perceive as authorial agendas. This “authorial agenda spotting” is activated by discursive “triggers”, which identify, filter, reject, endorse, or otherwise subjectively interpret the discourse of a textual author. This study was prompted by observing the negative reception of a humorous text by a predominantly Muslim postgraduate student cohort who signalled cultural identity and social cohesion by rejecting a text which subverted gender performance according to their discursive expectations. The study sought to compare this triggered effect with the reception of the same text by a distinctly pre-disposed audience comprised of same-sex-attracted bloggers. This reception in turn was contrasted with the reception of the text by mainstream media reviewers. The text itself seems to spark these discursive triggers in all three audiences. It is taken from “The Dame Edna Treatment” (2007), a TV-media entertainment programme, which features the celebrity guests k. d. lang and Ivana Trump being “interviewed” by the Australian comedian Barry Humphries in character as “Dame Edna”.
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Arora, Dolly. "‘Governance’ as Agenda: The Discursive Shift." Indian Journal of Public Administration 44, no. 3 (July 1998): 385–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0019556119980314.
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Davy, John. "Discursive reflections on a research agenda for clinical supervision." Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice 75, no. 2 (June 2002): 221–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1348/147608302169661.
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Malysheva, Olga, and Natalia Ryabchenko. "Hashtags as structural elements of digital socio-political agenda: folksonomy analysis." SHS Web of Conferences 88 (2020): 01025. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20208801025.
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The situation of the recent months, associated with constitutional transformational changes and struggle with coronavirus spread, showed that civic communications outperform the government as regards the speed, directions and the scale of discursive fields generation. The digital socio-political agenda forms new socio-cognitive patterns of civic behavior, which leads to the development of constructive or destructive socio-political practices. The government needs innovational approaches and complex methods to conduct timely predictive analysis of socio-political sentiment. It is necessary to develop computational linguistics that allows for Data Science and relational sociology methods, as well as linguo-discursive analysis to be used in order to assess the current state of the digital socio-political agenda and identify the transformational vector of social action in the offline space. The article reports the results of the study of ‘Коронавирус’ digital socio-political agenda that was conducted through the use of graph visualization method, folksonomy and linguo-discursive analysis. The empirical base for the study comprises a bulk of network data retrieved from Twitter via API. The findings of the study prove that ‘Коронавирус’ digital socio-political agenda has significantly transformed and expanded within a 5 months’ period, with COVID-19 topic receiving twice as much attention from online users.
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DOUVEN, IGOR, and JAN-WILLEM ROMEIJN. "THE DISCURSIVE DILEMMA AS A LOTTERY PARADOX." Economics and Philosophy 23, no. 3 (November 2007): 301–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266267107001502.
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List and Pettit have stated an impossibility theorem about the aggregation of individual opinion states. Building on recent work on the lottery paradox, this paper offers a variation on that result. The present result places different constraints on the voting agenda and the domain of profiles, but it covers a larger class of voting rules, which need not satisfy the proposition-wise independence of votes.
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Phillips, Ryan J. "Frames as Boundaries: Rhetorical Framing Analysis and the Confines of Public Discourse in Online News Coverage of Vegan Parenting." Journal of Communication Inquiry 43, no. 2 (November 22, 2018): 152–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0196859918814821.
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This article examines the boundary work of frames and the methodological significance of understanding this work when conducting rhetorical framing analysis. While the boundary properties of frames have been theorized by scholars, there remains a lack of clear engagement with how to effectively address these discursive boundaries methodically. I argue that agenda-dismissal, which makes use of both prolepses and blind spots, ought to be addressed in addition to agenda-setting and agenda-extension when conducting rhetorical framing analysis. A case study is provided in which the rhetorical framing of vegan parenting in online news media is analyzed and critiqued for confining the issue within a dominant health-based frame. Strategies for dismantling discursive boundaries and reframing public issues are also considered within the context of the case study.
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Ala-Uddin, Mohammad. "‘Sustainable’ Discourse: A Critical Analysis of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development." Asia Pacific Media Educator 29, no. 2 (December 2019): 214–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1326365x19881515.
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Sustainability is a catchphrase in contemporary theory and practice of international development. It has become an epicentre of development debate following the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015 by the United Nations (UN). Many view the new set of goals as a significant step in the field of development, but scholars and practitioners still grapple with reaching a consensus on a common definition of sustainability. This article problematizes the notion and theoretical underpinning of sustainability. The author focusses on the discursive practices that played a dominant role in shaping the conception of sustainability, especially within the formation of the SDGs. Using the three-dimensional analytical framework of discourse studies outlined by Fairclough (1995, Critical discourse analysis, Boston, MA: Addison Wesley), the author interprets the text of the SDGs at micro level (discourse), meso level (discursive practices) and macro level (discursive events).
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O’Brien, Wendy. "Australia’s Digital Policy Agenda." International Journal of Children’s Rights 22, no. 4 (December 1, 2014): 748–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15718182-02204004.
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Children’s engagement with online technologies may seem second nature, yet the impact that the Internet has on their lives is shaped by a powerful public policy agenda that largely overlooks children’s interests. Australia’s digital policy framework is dominated by discourses of safety and risk on the one hand and, on the other, neoliberal arguments about the possibilities for economic growth offered by e-commerce. In the midst of such powerful discourses it is difficult for children’s voices to be heard. This paper offers a close textual analysis of the Australian public policy context for regulating cyberspace. Finding a discursive duopoly that overlooks children’s interests, the author identifies two key features of a rights-based approach to challenge the dominant narratives currently serving the interests of the private sector and the State.
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Lauria, Daniela. "Discursive practices control in Spanish language." International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2021, no. 267-268 (March 1, 2021): 143–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ijsl-2020-0059.
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Abstract Control mechanisms for written, spoken, and multimodal discursive practices are, in my view, a priority item on today’s strategy agenda for a socially conscious approach to language in the peripheral countries of the global economic system. After describing and analyzing certain procedures for discursive regulation in Spanish language, and adopting the critical focus that glottopolitics provides, I zero in on the effects of this regulation and the subjectivities it shapes. Discursive restraints stem from several, often interconnected, sources: market dynamics, the search for greater productivity in the technologizing of the word, digital platforms, and as a condition for the approval of country loans by international economic organizations. The aim is to emphasize how discursive control reproduces the established social order and thus reinforces linguistic inequality.
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Aquino, Filipe. "Convocações ecológicas: o meio ambiente nas campanhas presidenciais brasileiras." Sociologia: Revista da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto 40 (2020): 75–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.21747/08723419/soc40a4.
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This article analyzes, from a sociological and semiotic point of view, the discursive constructions of the three most voted Brazilian presidential candidates, in the 2010 and 2014 elections, to understand how each discursive agenda was constructed and their choice of themes and figures who built their political personas. This investigation examined all the approaches about the environment understanding the idea of economic development communicated in the Brazilian Electoral Propagandas. It became evident with the different discursive operations that there is a low interest in ecological issues and sustainable development.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Discursive agenda"
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Bakir, Tamara Vian. "Media agenda-building battles between Greenpeace and Shell : a rhetorical and discursive approach." Thesis, University of Hull, 2001. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:5412.
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The empirical focus of this research comprises the UK television news battles between Greenpeace (a highly media-aware International Non-Governmental Organisation (INGO)), and the oil company Shell (a multinational corporation (MNC)). Specifically, two such media battles are examined, both receiving international attention and intense media publicity during 1995: - The battle between Royal Dutch/Shell, particularly, its subsidiary Shell-UK, and Greenpeace over the deep-sea disposal of the Brent Spar oil platform; - The battle between Royal Dutch/Shell's Nigerian subsidiary, the Shell Petroleum Development Corporation (SPDC) (hereafter referred to as Shell-Nigeria), and Greenpeace (amongst others) over environmental pollution in Ogoniland, Nigeria. These two battles were chosen mainly because they share the same main protagonists - Greenpeace and Shell - providing rich material for a number of interesting questions regarding media agenda-building.
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Samuelsson, Märta, and Luise Guse. "Constructions of identities in Kenya : A Discursive analysis regarding the Communicative meaning of Identity building in Interpersonal Communication and Mass media among young adults in Nairobi." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper, SV, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-9271.
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Kenya har i många sammanhang varit den ledande nationen i Östafrika men när det kommer till en gemensam nationell identitet ligger landet långt efter sina grannländer. Gällande t ex kultur, traditioner eller vem man gifter sig med har istället den etniska identiteten en större betydelse för de Kenyanska medborgarna. Betydelsen av stamtillhörighet har genom historien bidragit till oroligheter mellan olika etniciteter inom landet, den senaste och mest förödande uppstod i och med presidentvalet i december 2007. Stamtillhörighetens betydelse ligger till grund för denna uppsats; vi undersökte den kommunikativa meningen av identitetsskapandet i interpersonell kommunikation och massmedia bland unga vuxna i Nairobi. Vi ville med andra ord ta reda på hur man genom diskurs skapar konstruktioner och uppfattningar om sin identitet. Teorier vi valt att basera vår studie på är Newcomb’s triangulära kommunikationsmodell och Westley och McLean’s masskommunikationsmodell. Vi diskuterar relationen mellan kommunikation och makt, socialkonstruktivism och de teoretiska begreppen identitet, etnocentrism och förställda gemenskaper. Metoder vi använt oss av är kvalitativa gruppintervjuer och innehållsanalys. Resultatet är analyserat utifrån ett diskursanalytiskt perspektiv. Vi kom fram till att den kenyanska identitetsdiskursen kännetecknas av betydelsen av den etniska tillhörigheten, vilken är mer central än den nationella tillhörigheten
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Van, Aswegen Jennifer. "In search of the 'inclusive agenda' through a series of discursive 'snapshots' : ideological challenges to 'Comprehensive Employment Strategy for People with Disabilities 2015-2024' Ireland." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2016. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/16790/.
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This thesis offers a critique of the Irish labour market activation policy ‘Comprehensive Employment Strategy for People with Disabilities 2015-2024’, through a series of discursive snapshots. In utilising a critical discourse analysis framework and a policy problematisations approach, the study exploits the discursive space afforded by this policy event, to examine the complex interplay of welfare and education discourses, across time, place and other policy domains. Reflecting on previous studies of special education policy-making in Ireland, this strategy provides a unique opportunity to take once more, a reading of the deep conceptual issues upon which ‘disability’ is conceptualised, constituted and articulated in Irish policy-making. The purpose of this study therefore, is to examine, not only how disability is understood in this particular policy, but more importantly, to evaluate the implications which accompany such understandings, across other policy domains, and the effects on those for whom the policy is intended. In particular, the overarching aim of this study is to assess the implications emanating from this policy event, on the national aspiration for an inclusive education agenda. In essence, the study seeks to examine what this policy event ‘means’—not just for the future development of Irish disability policy, but for the implementation of the already established policy of special needs education. As we move once again towards ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities, within a climate of deepening neoliberal and economic imperatives, the rationale for undertaking such an approach to policy analysis, becomes increasingly urgent. Recent calls from eminent Irish and international scholars have urged a re-engagement with the politics of dis/ability, and discourses of renewal and hope, in order to challenge the discursive legitimacy crisis that prevails at this time in Europe and beyond. It is the explicit intention of this study therefore, to commit and contribute to this political endeavour, in the hope of creating new discursive possibilities in thinking about disability in policy-making.
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Kimmet, Philip, and n/a. "The Politics of Good Governance in the Asean 4." Griffith University. Griffith Business School, 2005. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20060307.141018.
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'Good governance' is an evolving and increasingly influential discursive agenda that introduces new ideas about public policy, specifically targeting managerial behaviour and promoting modern administrative strategies. Most scholars agree that as a notion, good governance combines liberal democratic principles with a 'new public management' (NPM) approach to economic policy-making. What is less clear is who the agenda actually targets. In other words, is the good governance agenda aimed at rulers in particular or the broader population? Implicit in the answer is whether good governance concepts are simply useful tools to help build political credibility, or the agents for better managerial and administrative outcomes. In countries with advanced economies, good governance is invariably used to describe corporate and public administration strategies that invoke ethically grounded 'World's best practice' standards and procedures. However, in developing economies, good governance can take on quite different, and often unintended meanings. This thesis finds that in developing countries good governance is being expressed more as a political tool than as substantive practice and policy reform. This is occurring in an increasingly 'post-Washington consensus' environment that explicitly recognises the importance of the social impact of structural adjustment programs and broader issues of human rights. And importantly as far as this thesis is concerned, during Southeast Asia's current economic recovery, good governance has taken on a whole new relevance. This analysis commences from the assumption that good governance is a discursively created phenomenon that can be understood as a complex notion with both structural and ideational elements. The term is couched in a structure that is both economically technical and socially normative. It has overlapping central tenets driven by regulation and the institutional environment, and should not be viewed as a set of constructs in isolation from the context in which it is being used. And it is based on assumptions about common sense attitudes and shared common good objectives. And as this thesis will demonstrate, good governance functions within an unpredictable and often hostile political environment in which powerful actors are learning to use this new discourse to satisfy political expediencies. Put simply, good governance is nourishing a politics of its own. The thesis uses the ASEAN 4 countries of Southeast Asia: the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, as individual and comparative case studies. The studies examine how the concept is shaping the institutional structure of these countries, and includes commentary on the role of good governance in the 2004 round of election campaigning. A genealogy of good governance will be developed in these local contexts, and more generally. This will assist in mapping the concept's evolution in relation to development trajectories and local politics. The hypothesis under examination is - that the good governance agendas in the ASEAN 4 states primarily focus on improving representative rule rather than encouraging self-regulation. Two questions in particular are asked in each of the case studies dor the purpose of testing this hypothesis. What defining features of good governance discourse have been instrumental in the emergence of the politics that surrounds the agenda, and how is the discourse used to expand or limit the democratic possibilities theoretically inherent in good governance strategies and processes? These questions are important because they're designed to bring clarity to the intent of government and the role that the governed play in states where good governance is an increasingly important political issue. Good governance is more than merely a set of prescribed policies and practices. It is an agenda that reflects a specific set of 'neoliberal' ideas, predicated upon generally unarticulated assumptions about the universality of modern administrative practices supported by normative behavioural change. And it appears to privilege specific interests with potentially unjust implications for wider social formations. This assertion pivots on the finding that in various ways good governance discourages the advancement of open politics beyond nominal democratic procedures because it is theoretically grounded on governance principles that are not easily transferred to developing countries with diverging political, cultural and historical experience. Nevertheless, the attempt is underway. Ostensibly it is taking a form that is schooling targeted populations in what is 'good' and 'bad' in the economic interest of the nation. However, these efforts don't appear to be succeeding, at least not in the way the international architects of good governance intended. This thesis finds that this 'mentality' transformation project is clearly informed by Western experience. And this informs the theoretical approach of the thesis. Specifically, a 'governmentality' framework is used, largely because it has been developed out of analyses of rationalities of government in advanced liberal societies, in which the objectives of good governance are firmly grounded. And as this expanding research program has seldom been used to study government in developing countries, this thesis also puts a case for using governmentality tools beyond the boundaries of its modern Western foundations.
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Kimmet, Philip. "The Politic of Good Governance in the ASEAN 4." Thesis, Griffith University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366708.
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'Good governance' is an evolving and increasingly influential discursive agenda that introduces new ideas about public policy, specifically targeting managerial behaviour and promoting modern administrative strategies. Most scholars agree that as a notion, good governance combines liberal democratic principles with a 'new public management' (NPM) approach to economic policy-making. What is less clear is who the agenda actually targets. In other words, is the good governance agenda aimed at rulers in particular or the broader population? Implicit in the answer is whether good governance concepts are simply useful tools to help build political credibility, or the agents for better managerial and administrative outcomes. In countries with advanced economies, good governance is invariably used to describe corporate and public administration strategies that invoke ethically grounded 'World's best practice' standards and procedures. However, in developing economies, good governance can take on quite different, and often unintended meanings. This thesis finds that in developing countries good governance is being expressed more as a political tool than as substantive practice and policy reform. This is occurring in an increasingly 'post-Washington consensus' environment that explicitly recognises the importance of the social impact of structural adjustment programs and broader issues of human rights. And importantly as far as this thesis is concerned, during Southeast Asia's current economic recovery, good governance has taken on a whole new relevance. This analysis commences from the assumption that good governance is a discursively created phenomenon that can be understood as a complex notion with both structural and ideational elements. The term is couched in a structure that is both economically technical and socially normative. It has overlapping central tenets driven by regulation and the institutional environment, and should not be viewed as a set of constructs in isolation from the context in which it is being used. And it is based on assumptions about common sense attitudes and shared common good objectives. And as this thesis will demonstrate, good governance functions within an unpredictable and often hostile political environment in which powerful actors are learning to use this new discourse to satisfy political expediencies. Put simply, good governance is nourishing a politics of its own. The thesis uses the ASEAN 4 countries of Southeast Asia: the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia, as individual and comparative case studies. The studies examine how the concept is shaping the institutional structure of these countries, and includes commentary on the role of good governance in the 2004 round of election campaigning. A genealogy of good governance will be developed in these local contexts, and more generally. This will assist in mapping the concept's evolution in relation to development trajectories and local politics. The hypothesis under examination is - that the good governance agendas in the ASEAN 4 states primarily focus on improving representative rule rather than encouraging self-regulation. Two questions in particular are asked in each of the case studies dor the purpose of testing this hypothesis. What defining features of good governance discourse have been instrumental in the emergence of the politics that surrounds the agenda, and how is the discourse used to expand or limit the democratic possibilities theoretically inherent in good governance strategies and processes? These questions are important because they're designed to bring clarity to the intent of government and the role that the governed play in states where good governance is an increasingly important political issue. Good governance is more than merely a set of prescribed policies and practices. It is an agenda that reflects a specific set of 'neoliberal' ideas, predicated upon generally unarticulated assumptions about the universality of modern administrative practices supported by normative behavioural change. And it appears to privilege specific interests with potentially unjust implications for wider social formations. This assertion pivots on the finding that in various ways good governance discourages the advancement of open politics beyond nominal democratic procedures because it is theoretically grounded on governance principles that are not easily transferred to developing countries with diverging political, cultural and historical experience. Nevertheless, the attempt is underway. Ostensibly it is taking a form that is schooling targeted populations in what is 'good' and 'bad' in the economic interest of the nation. However, these efforts don't appear to be succeeding, at least not in the way the international architects of good governance intended. This thesis finds that this 'mentality' transformation project is clearly informed by Western experience. And this informs the theoretical approach of the thesis. Specifically, a 'governmentality' framework is used, largely because it has been developed out of analyses of rationalities of government in advanced liberal societies, in which the objectives of good governance are firmly grounded. And as this expanding research program has seldom been used to study government in developing countries, this thesis also puts a case for using governmentality tools beyond the boundaries of its modern Western foundations.Thesis (Masters)
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Griffith Business School
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Youssef, Maisaa. "A violence properly political, discourse, discrepancy, and discursive agency." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ37423.pdf.
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Vitanova, Gergana. "Gender and Agency Practices in a Second Language." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2002. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1029525438.
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Brooks, Samantha K. "Problematic eating and its public accountability : the discursive construction of agency in radio talk." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2008. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/33948.
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This thesis is a discursive psychological and conversation analytic examination of discourse and interaction about food, weight and eating behaviours. The data corpus consists of approximately twenty-eight hours of talk recorded from UK radio broadcasts between 2002 and 2007, the majority of which were found through online archives. Within this corpus are a variety of different radio shows where the topic under discussion is body weight or eating behaviours. Data was transcribed using the Jeffersonian method which was developed for conversation analysis (CA). After transcription was complete, CA was used to examine the design and function of the interaction, in particular its sequential organisation within the institutional setting of a radio show.
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Lo, Wai Han. "Inter-discursive strategies, resistance and agency the case of poverty in Hong Kong media." HKBU Institutional Repository, 2015. https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/etd_oa/210.
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This study uses Foucauldian governmentality as a framework to examine the interplay of neoliberal and place-based discourses, as well as the political rationalities aimed at governing citizens. It identifies neoliberalism as an ideological project and different parties play a role in the facilitation and circulation of neoliberalism as a form of governmentality. The possibility for accommodation of the two mismatched theoretical position, poststructuralism and Marxism, is also discussed. This study not only focuses on the apparatus of technologies of domination, but also responds to a recent call to recognize the creative possibilities and freedom of an individual. A geneology of poverty and welfare discourse is examined in this study through a complementary combination of qualitative coding analysis and quantitative content analysis of 20 years of Hong Kong newspaper articles. Seventy in-deep interviews with poor people, social workers, and volunteers, and participant observation were conducted in three NGOs for one year. Five central governing practices among poverty news articles supporting neoliberal rationality and mentalities and four oppositional claims are also found. Three major shifts in discursive strategies were identified as coinciding with the major socio-political changes in Hong Kong. The result shows that the mobilization of moral panic prompted a shift in the discourse regarding poverty from a story-like form of social citizenship to rational language of economic citizenship. In this, news media use their institutional power to determine the legitimate way to discuss poverty. Faced with journalism preference of scientism, rationality, and extraordinary stories, social actors and government officials use survey, official statistics, rational language and demonstrations to attract media attention. Journalists condition the audience to act as good citizens by repeating the self-reliance project. The individuals are either conditioned to behave themselves or to monitor the behavior of others in economic terms. This study further examines how the society in terms of power and knowledge constitutes subjectivity. It first illustrates how gazes might transform social relations in our everyday lives. Individuals might submit to power as technology of domination under constant surveillance. At the same time, poor people accomplish goals and actualize themselves as technology of self
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Khoo, Su-Ming. "Democracy and development in Malaysia : the role of think tanks and NGOs as discursive agents." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.300607.
Full textBooks on the topic "Discursive agenda"
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Reynolds, Jill. The single woman: A discursive investigation. New York, NY: Routledge, 2008.
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Medina, José. Speaking from elsewhere: A new contextualist perspective on meaning, identity, and discursive agency. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2006.
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Speaking from elsewhere: A new contextualist perspective on meaning, identity, and discursive agency. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006.
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Chao, Shi-Yan. Queer Representations in Chinese-language Film and the Cultural Landscape. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462988033.
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Queer Representations in Chinese-language Film and the Cultural Landscape provides a cultural history of queer representations in Chinese-language film and media, negotiated by locally produced knowledge, local cultural agency, and lived histories. Incorporating a wide range of materials in both English and Chinese, this interdisciplinary project investigates the processes through which Chinese tongzhi/queer imaginaries are articulated, focusing on four main themes: the Chinese familial system, Chinese opera, camp aesthetic, and documentary impulse. Chao’s discursive analysis is rooted in and advances genealogical inquiries: a non-essentialist intervention into the "Chinese" idea of filial piety, a transcultural perspective on the contested genre of film melodrama, a historical investigation of the local articulations of mass camp and gay camp, and a transnational inquiry into the different formats of documentary. This book is a must for anyone exploring the cultural history of Chinese tongzhi/queer through the lens of transcultural media.
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Fawcett, Paul, Matthew Flinders, Colin Hay, and Matthew Wood. Conclusion. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198748977.003.0013.
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This chapter returns to the idea of ‘nexus politics’ and the collection’s overall concern with how depoliticization functions to reinforce anti-politics in the context of changes in governance. We organize an agenda for further research around theoretical, methodological, and empirical themes. Theoretically, we argue that further work is needed to better account for how and why depoliticization and politicization occur, and on which forms of politicization promote choice, deliberation, and agency. Methodologically, we need to develop analytical models that map out what institutional and discursive configurations make choice and collective agency appear more or less visible. We need to keep pushing the envelope by examining how depoliticization operates in unconventional arenas. While much more work still needs to be done, this book makes a modest yet distinctive contribution towards a better understanding of ‘nexus politics’ and the growth of anti-politics as one of the most significant issues of our time.
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Simonsen, Karen-Margrethe, and Jonas Ross Kjaergard. Discursive Framings of Human Rights: Negotiating Agency and Victimhood. Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
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Simonsen, Karen-Margrethe, and Jonas Ross Kjaergard. Discursive Framings of Human Rights: Negotiating Agency and Victimhood. Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
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Simonsen, Karen-Margrethe, and Jonas Ross Kjaergard. Discursive Framings of Human Rights: Negotiating Agency and Victimhood. Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
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Simonsen, Karen-Margrethe, and Jonas Ross Kjaergard. Discursive Framings of Human Rights: Negotiating Agency and Victimhood. Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
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Simonsen, Karen-Margrethe, and Jonas Ross Kjaergard. Discursive Framings of Human Rights: Negotiating Agency and Victimhood. Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
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Madsen, Diana Højlund, and Heidi Hudson. "Open Access: Temporality and the discursive dynamics of the Rwandan National Action Plans on Women, Peace and Security from 2009 and 2018." In The Women, Peace and Security Agenda, 101–22. London: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003215455-6.
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Janus, Heiner, and Lixia Tang. "Conceptualising Ideational Convergence of China and OECD Donors: Coalition Magnets in Development Cooperation." In The Palgrave Handbook of Development Cooperation for Achieving the 2030 Agenda, 217–43. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57938-8_10.
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AbstractThis chapter analyses the development discourse on foreign aid to explore areas of convergence between the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) donors and Chinese development cooperation. We apply the concept of “coalition magnets”—the capacity of an idea to appeal to a diverse set of individuals and groups, and to be used strategically by policy entrepreneurs to frame interests, mobilise support, and build coalitions. Three coalition magnets are identified: mutual benefit, development results, and the 2030 Agenda. The chapter finds that coalition magnets can be used to influence political change and concludes that applying a discursive approach provides a new conceptual opportunity for fostering closer engagement between OECD-DAC and Chinese development cooperation actors.
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Krogmann, David. "Regional Ideas in International Education Organizations: The Case of SEAMEO." In Global Dynamics of Social Policy, 217–37. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78885-8_8.
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AbstractIn Chap. 10.1007/978-3-030-78885-8_8, on SEAMEO, David Krogman focuses the attention on regional identities in international education organizations. This IO has been a major player in education policy in Southeast Asia for decades. The chapter explores the underlying themes and ideas which inform discursive patterns produced and reproduced by SEAMEO. How does SEAMEO conceive of education? Did SEAMEO’s image of education evolve over time? The analysis by Krogmann finds that SEAMEO mostly follows the UN’s global sustainable development agenda in education policy, stressing both the social as well as the economic purposes of education. However, it does so with a distinct emphasis on the education purpose of reinforcing the collectively shared values and traditions of its member states, which it deems unique to Southeast Asia.
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Leydesdorff, Loet. "Anticipation and the Dynamics of Expectations." In Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Scientific and Scholarly Communication, 149–73. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59951-5_8.
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AbstractThe operationalization of socio-cognitive structures in terms of observables such as texts (e.g., in discourse analysis and scientometrics) or the behavior of agents (e.g., in the sociology of scientific knowledge) may inadvertedly lead to reification. The dynamics of knowledge are not directly observable, but knowledge contents can be reconstructed. The reconstructions have the status of hypotheses; hypotheses can be tested against observations. Whereas agent-based modelling (ABM) focuses on observable behavior, simulations based on algorithms developed in the theory and computation of anticipatory systems (CASYS) enable us to visualize the incursive and recursive dynamics of knowledge at the individual level as different from the potentially hyper-incursive dynamics at the intersubjective level. The sciences can be considered as “strongly anticipatory” at this supra-individual level: expectations are discursively reconstructed in terms of next generations of expectations. This reflexive restructuring is embedded in historical dynamics on which it feeds back as a selection environment. The agents and texts entertain discursive models and thus be considered “weakly anticipatory” participants in the communication.
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Ussher, Jane. "The Case of the Lesbian Phallus: Bridging the Gap between Material and Discursive Analyses of Sexuality." In New Sexual Agendas, 157–68. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 1997. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25549-8_12.
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Yoong, Melissa. "(De)legitimation Strategies in the Media Statements of Women’s Rights Organisations." In Discursive Approaches to Politics in Malaysia, 185–205. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5334-7_10.
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AbstractThis chapter examines the (de)legitimation strategies that women’s movement organisations in Malaysia use to advance their policy and issue demands. Sustained pressure from activists has been important to get the state to implement reforms to improve women’s rights in this country. One of the frequent means by which they delegitimise the decisions and practices of the state and claim legitimacy for their own change agendas is through media statements which are widely published and reported in the mainstream press. This case study explores the strategies employed in English language media statements released by the Joint Action Group for Gender Equality, the Women’s Aid Organisation, and the All Women’s Action Society. More specifically, it focuses on statements pertaining to one of the key areas that the groups advocate, namely women’s right to safe, healthy, and gainful employment. Using frameworks on discursive (de)legitimation and social actor representation, this chapter examines the various ways the organisations frame and assess legislation, policies, and political actions that impact the experiences and livelihood of working women. It distinguishes and analyses four main (de)legitimation strategies used in the press statements, which are (de)legitimation through authorisation, rationalisation, discourses of nation-building and discourses of women as victims. The chapter argues that these devices may be effective in shaping public opinion and gender governance outcomes if they are perceived as representing or promoting national interests but potentially constrained by culturally dominant discourses that marginalise feminist ways of thinking.
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Luo, Anran. "Who has discursive agency to change global environmental narratives?" In The Impossibilities of the Circular Economy, 121–32. London: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003244196-14.
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Rajandran, Kumaran. "Voices of Economic Competence: Legitimizing the Government in Federal Budget Speeches." In Discursive Approaches to Politics in Malaysia, 33–51. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5334-7_3.
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AbstractBudget speeches are an overview of public economic initiatives and can anticipate revenues, expenditures, policies, and activities. These speeches enable a government to discursively legitimize economic competence. While legitimation can be achieved by the representation and evaluation of economic initiatives, intertextuality should also be analyzed because the use of voices helps or hinders legitimation. The chapter explores how the Barisan Nasional (BN) government legitimized its economic competence through intertextual voicing. It outlines the source and engagement of voices and operationalizes a method that involves five sequential stages. The chapter analyzes an archive of Malaysian federal budget speeches from 2010 to 2018. The analysis discloses various instances of intertextual voicing because the speeches articulate voices in economics, politics, and religion. The choice of voices is shaped by the Malaysian context. Intertextual voicing legitimizes BN through moralization and authorization. The voices can be considered as voices of economic competence because economic, political, and religious voices discursively legitimize actions and decisions for the economy. Intertextual voicing serves ideological purposes because it perpetuates government economic agency. In budget speeches, BN promotes itself as indispensable to Malaysian development, and it should consequently continue to govern the country. These speeches then become part of the genres that validate BN.
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Saarinen, Taina, and Ari Huhta. "The Ideal Learner as Envisioned by Can Do Statements and Grammar Revisions: How Textbook Agency Is Constructed." In New Materialist Explorations into Language Education, 151–72. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13847-8_9.
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AbstractIn this chapter, we analyse the features of textbooks that enable and facilitate their role as material agents in the classroom. Rather than analyse the ways textbooks are used in interaction with humans, we analyse the elements in the textbook itself that facilitate intra-action and the ensuing material agency. Based on a discursive analysis of self-assessment in one textbook and discussing that construct against the Finnish national core curriculum and previous research, we present an ‘ideal imaginary’ of classroom activities as construed in the textbook. This helps us understand the textbooks in their pedagogical ergonomics; i.e. as socio-material in the classroom. We conclude by discussing the ideological nature of the textbooks not only as describing, but materially constructing a learner agency that understands learning both as constructivist and behaviourist. This merging of pedagogic ideals promotes a particular kind of disciplined behaviour to the extent that learner behaviour and learning are inseparably intertwined.
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Footitt, Hilary. "Chapter 11. When the armies went back home." In Benjamins Translation Library, 268–87. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/btl.159.11foo.
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Research on interpreting in war has investigated the role played by local civilians recruited by the Army as linguistic mediators. This chapter explores the aftermath of war for these local interpreters in the case of the conflict in Afghanistan, using the seven-year long debates on their fate in the UK, France and Denmark. In the arguments around the politics of protection, interpreting is located in three discursive spaces: at the supranational level, within the specificities of NATO multilateral operations on the ground, and in the space of individual nation-state agendas. In the aftermath of the war in Afghanistan, the Chapter argues, the greater public visibility of local interpreters did not materially change the ways in which interpreting in war was perceived.
Conference papers on the topic "Discursive agenda"
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Grocott, Lisa. "The Discursive Agency of Productive Ambiguity." In Nordes 2009: Engaging Artifacts. Nordes, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2009.038.
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Bunders, Arnout E., Marc Dinkgreve, Jacqueline Broerse, and Barbara Regeer. "REFLEXIVE MONITORING THROUGH VIDEO REFLECTION: INCREASED DISCURSIVE AWARENESS IN TEAM MANAGERS OF A YOUTH CARE PROTECTION AGENCY." In International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies. IATED, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.21125/edulearn.2016.2123.
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Hadzantonis, Michael. "Shifting the Semangat: Parallelism in the Central Indonesian Mantra." In GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2020. The GLOCAL Unit, SOAS University of London, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.47298/cala2020.1-2.
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The Javanese mantra, is a communicative act, and a spiritual dialogue. During the mantra ritual, the shaman Orang Pinter and supplicant receiving the intervention select become equal agents, as they intervene for change in the cultural and spiritual disposition of the supplicant. But in this paper. The presentation discusses ethnographic work over 10 years during which over 1500 mantras were documented throughout central to east Java, Indonesia, To effect the documentation process, I engaged with a range of communities and individuals throughout Java, that is, Yogyakarta, Solo, Surabaya, Alas Purwo, Salatiga, Bali, and other localities, Spiritual interventions were witnessed, and we suggest religious affiliation tells only part of the story. Drawing on frameworks of symbolic interactionism, and phenomenological nominalism, the synopsis discusses how a poetic discourse analysis of mantras can describe a system employed by these shamans and the supplicants to discursively facilitate the spiritual process, by altering the dissociative state of the supplicant. The talk concludes by presenting a model for the mantra in Java, and possibly in other global regions. Within this model, several overlapping processes mediate the drawing on cultural symbolisms, and overlap in strategic designs, to to effect change in the supplicant. The paper draws on work by Rebecca Seligman, who has conducted similar ethnographic and theoretical work in the South American context.
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Macedo Calejo, Marta, and Graça Magalhães. "Design as a Critical Research." In Systems & Design: Beyond Processes and Thinking. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/ifdp.2016.3263.
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Historically the imaginary and the hegemonic thinking, in the Western North globe has been marked by the epistemology and capitalists archetypes. Notwithstanding the design as a practice and discipline seem shielded on a simplistic discourse of functional / communicative efficiency, wandering through multiple aestheticism apparently neutral in relation to the symbolic but in fact they never are because what really happens is that the aesthetic appearance of the generated forms will always be a review of the powers ruling. We start from understanding that the act of creating an aesthetic artefact will also be a movement of inscription in a discursive platform (that precedes it) thus being itself an narrative act and representing a positioning in relation to certain symbolic reality. On the presented reflection Design is seen as a discipline and / or an instrument of action, whose operational relevance tends to question and simultaneously rehearsing a response to not just the question why but also for what? Apparently Design is a content mediator, but also, it is structure, body and idea. We think design praxis as discipline and enrolment tool for critical thought and social transformation. For guiding research in this text, we propose the following question: Can Design form an engagement with the symbolic for them in order to be an active part in the production of critical thinking in the place where it belongs? Methodologically our argument will be present in two different moments: 1. first, exploratory nature where we rescue the draw issues in the practice of design and 2. second, analytical nature concerning the subject issues (graphic and / or utility ) of design and how it incorporates formal rites, political events and social practices of contemporary everyday life. We consider the praxis of design as a discipline and critical thinking enrolment tool as agents of social transformation. With this study we seek to contribute to design’s phenomenology by studying the artefacts of configuration as well as the possible messages they convey and what impact they may have on the social network.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/IFDP.2016.3263