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Morality and social criticism: The force of reasons in discursive practice. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

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Making religion: Theory and practice in the discursive study of religion. Boston: Brill, 2016.

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Powermatics: A discursive critique of new communications technology. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987.

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N'Goran, David K. Les illusions de l'africanité: Une analyse socio-discursive du champ littéraire. Paris: Publibook, 2012.

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Butler, Judith. Bodies that matter: On the discursive limits of "sex". New York: Routledge, 1993.

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Butler, Judith. Bodies that matter: On the discursive limits of "sex". New York: Routledge, 1993.

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Butler, Judith. Bodies that matter: On the discursive limits of “sex”. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2011.

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Keyman, Emin Fuat. Mapping the concept of modern: Three discursive positions on epistemology and the uniqueness of Western capitalism. Ottawa: Dept. of Political Science, Carleton University, 1988.

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Ladeur, Karl-Heinz. Can Habermas' discursive ethics support a theory of the constitution?: Towards a critique of the attempt to replace the unity of substantive universal reason by a procedural rationality of argumentation. Badia Fiesolana, San Domenica (FI): European University Institute, 1999.

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Sabry, Randa. Stratégies discursives: Digression, transition, suspens. Paris: Editions de l'Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, 1992.

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Burunskiy, Vladimir, Vyacheslav Gvozdev, Zoya Devickaya, Evgeniya Koneva, and Svetlana Subbotenko. Language. Speech activity. Discourse. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1070338.

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This collective monograph is devoted to topical problems related to the study of language (semantic-cognitive and cultural aspects), with the study of language consciousness and speech activities and discourse (consideration of discursive practices). May be of interest to specialists in the field of General linguistics, psycholinguistics, cultural linguistics for graduate students, undergraduates, bachelors, interested in issues of language theory.
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Kanke, Viktor. Business Ethics. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/969194.

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The textbook is a sequential course in business ethics. The theory of conceptual transduction developed by the author is widely used. Special attention is paid to the connection between philosophical, meta-scientific and business ethics. The achievements of analytical philosophy, phenomenology, hermeneutics, poststructuralism and other major philosophical trends of our time, as well as their ethical components, in particular utilitarianism, pragmatic and discursive ethics, are taken into account. The latest achievements of modern business ethics are considered. Considerable attention is paid to the corporate ethics of responsibility. For undergraduate and graduate students studying Business Ethics or Business Ethics courses. It is also of considerable interest to postgraduates and researchers, as well as to a wide range of readers.
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Amsler, Mark. The Medieval Life of Language. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463721929.

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The Medieval Life of Language: Grammar and Pragmatics from Bacon to Kempe explores the complex history of medieval pragmatic theory and ideas and metapragmatic awareness across social discourses. Pragmatic thinking about language and communication is revealed in grammar, semiotics, philosophy, and literature. Part historical reconstruction, part social history, part language theory, Amsler supplements the usual materials for the history of medieval linguistics and discusses the pragmatic implications of grammatical treatises on the interjection, Bacon’s sign theory, logic texts, Chaucer’s poetry, inquisitors’ accounts of heretic speech, and life-writing by William Thorpe and Margery Kempe. Medieval and contemporary pragmatic theory are contrasted in terms of their philosophical and linguistic orientations. Aspects of medieval pragmatic theory and practice, especially polysemy, equivocation, affective speech, and recontextualization, show how pragmatic discourse informed social controversies and attitudes toward sincere, vague, and heretical speech. Relying on Bakhtinian dialogism, critical discourse analysis, and conversation analysis, Amsler situates a key period in the history of linguistics within broader social and discursive fields of practice.
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Kislicyna, Natal'ya, and Ekaterina Novikova. Genres sports discourse: linguistic and cognitive aspect. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1077732.

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The monograph is devoted to the study of the phenomenon of "discourse" from the perspective of its institutionality. The focus of research interest is sports discourse, presented in the form of a complex conceptual space with a particular genre-stylistic and pragmatic characteristics. As a material of study are sports articles, sports interviews and sports commentary, considered as genres of sports discourse, allocated according to criteria focus of the text and its function. The use of frame analysis, content analysis and conversational analysis have shown the peculiarities of representation of speech and thoughts of individuals, operating in the conditions of specific discursive practices. Addressed to specialists in the field of language theory, cognitive linguistics, decorology, pragmatics, teachers, postgraduates and students.
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Noor, Farish A. The Discursive Construction of Southeast Asia in 19th Century Colonial-Capitalist Discourse. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789089648846.

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The nations of Southeast Asia today are rapidly integrating economically and politically, but that integration is also counterbalanced by forces ranging from hyper-nationalism to disputes over cultural ownership throughout the region. Those forces, Farish A. Noor argues in this book, have their roots in the region's failure to come to a critical understanding of how current national and cultural identities in the region came about. To remedy that, Noor offers a close account of the construction of Southeast Asia in the nineteenth century by the forces of capitalism and imperialism, and shows how that construct remains a potent aspect of political, economic, and cultural disputes today.
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Wiggins, Sally. Discursive Psychology: Theory, Method and Applications. SAGE Publications, Limited, 2016.

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Wiggins, Sally. Discursive Psychology: Theory, Method and Applications. SAGE Publications, Limited, 2016.

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(Editor), Johannes Angermuller, and Katharina Bunzmann (Editor), eds. Hybrid Spaces: Theory, Culture, Economy (Discursive Produktions). Lit Verlag, 2001.

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Stokoe, Elizabeth H., and Sally Wiggins. Discursive approaches. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med:psych/9780198527565.003.0012.

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This chapter introduces a method of qualitative analysis that focuses on exploring and explicating language in use. The discourse analytic approach discussed has developed within psychology over the past fifteen years and is called ‘discursive psychology’ (DP). The chapter outlines its origins and foundations, its theory and approach to language, its questions and topics of investigation, its methods of data collection and analysis and, for the current purposes, its utility for clinical and health psychologists.
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1953-, Kʹosev Aleksandŭr, ed. Post-theory, games, and discursive resistance: The Bulgarian case. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995.

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1951-, Grgas Stipe, Larsen Svend Erik 1946-, and International Society for the Study of European Ideas. Conference, eds. The Construction of nature: A discursive strategy in modern European thought. Odense, Denmark: Odense University Press, 1994.

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Freeden, Michael. 8. Discursive realities and surrealities. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780192802811.003.0008.

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Ideological fragmentation and malleability has led to new developments in the theory of ideology. ‘Discursive realities and surrealities’ examines the differing responses to these developments. Some scholars have concentrated on the fragments and this branch of study of the micro-ideologies is discourse analysis. This has drawn on studies in hermeneutics, semantics, and postmodern studies. Others have reactivated the old Marxist scepticism about what lies behind the continual ideological permutations. Post-Marxists and poststructuralists have given new impetus to the study of ideology. They have refused to take any fact, any opinion, any framework, for granted.
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The Body Wall: Somatics of Travelling And Discursive Practices (Literary and Cultural Theory,). Peter Lang Publishing, 2006.

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Bialas, Zbigniew. The Body Wall: Somatics of Travelling And Discursive Practices (Literary and Cultural Theory,). Peter Lang Publishing, 2006.

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Swindal, James. Reflection Revisited: Jurgen Habermas' Discursive Theory of Truth (Perspective in Continental Philosophy , No 5). Fordham University Press, 1999.

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Swindal, James. Reflection Revisited: Jurgen Habermas' Discursive Theory of Truth (Perspective in Continental Philosophy , No 5). Fordham University Press, 1999.

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Butler, Judith. Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex. Routledge, 1993.

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Butler, Judith. Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex. Routledge, 2015.

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Krawatzek, Félix. Setting, Concepts, and Theory. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198826842.003.0001.

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Youth can play a central role for understanding political developments during crises. The introductory chapter suggests combining the discursive and the physical mobilization of youth to understand its relevance in moments of crisis. Conceptual clarification is provided on the book’s key terms: ‘crisis’ as a category of experience which conveys contingency and possibilities; ‘youth’ as a political and cultural symbol; and ‘generation’ as combining experiences and expectations. The comparative historical frame starts from the contemporary Russian case and gradually adds variation in a controlled manner. A subsequent section develops a theory of the entwined processes of the political mobilization of young people and changing discourses about youth in moments of crisis in distinct political settings. The discussion of the theoretical processes leads to the formulation of the three guiding hypotheses on the symbolic and physical mobilization of youth and the relationship between youth and society at large.
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Kiossev, Alexander. Post-Theory, Games, and Discursive Resistance: The Bulgarian Case (S U N Y Series, Margins of Literature). State University of New York Press, 1995.

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Kosev, Aleksandur. Post-Theory, Games, and Discursive Resistance: The Bulgarian Case (S U N Y Series, Margins of Literature). State University of New York Press, 1995.

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1961-, Ussher Jane M., ed. Body talk: The material and discursive regulation of sexuality, madness, and reproduction. London: Routledge, 1997.

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Goodhart, Michael. Political Theory and the Politics of Injustice. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190692421.003.0007.

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This chapter tries to show what practical difference it makes if one adopts the approach developed in the foregoing chapters. It focuses on the work that political theory and political theorists might do in support of an effective real-world response to injustice. Much of the conflict around injustice is ideological—it arises from conflicting values, ideas, and interpretations. When an ideology becomes dominant or hegemonic, its key concepts become decontested, making injustice seem natural or normal. To contest this requires a form of counterhegemonic politics, politics designed to challenge the prevailing ideological views and proposing alternative viewpoints. Its success depends on building countervailing power through discursive political engagement, efforts enabled by the work of articulation and translation. The ultimate aim of transformative democratic politics is to establish a reflexive, open-ended, and continual process of repair, renewal, and (re)generation.
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Kehler, Andrew, and Andy Kehler. Coherence, Reference, and the Theory of Grammar. Center for the Study of Language and Inf, 2002.

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Struwig, Dillon. Coleridge’s Two-Level Theory of Metaphysical Knowledge and the Order of the Mental Powers in the Logic. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198799511.003.0012.

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Coleridge is presented as a two-level theorist of the innate powers of mind in Chapter 11, which argues that Coleridge distinguishes (1) a transcendental, Kantian sense of the a priori principles of human discursive cognition (comparable to Plato’s mid-level diánoia), from (2) the noëtic, Platonic a priori principles of intellectual intuition (or nóēsis, a higher-level intuitive cognition of ontological, theological, and ethical truths). Drawing on Logic and Opus Maximum, the author demonstrates that Coleridge characterizes Kantian a priori principles as ‘subjectively real’, finite-mind-dependent rules of sense-experience and cognition, and Platonic a priori principles as ‘objectively real’ principles of knowing and being that are dependent upon ‘the transcendent and unindividual’ reason (i.e. God, ‘the absolute Self, Spirit, or Mind’). This ‘two-level’ theory is framed in terms of Coleridge’s Kantian ‘threefold division’ of the human cognitive capacities into sense, understanding, and reason, and their respective a priori operations and contents.
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Da Costa, Dia. Introduction. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040603.003.0001.

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This chapter introduces transnational feminist and affect theory frameworks, two activist troupes, and key concepts of sentimental capitalism and hunger called theater to argue the significance of analyzing a global discursive regime of creative economy policy within the same analytical frame as activist performance. Highlighting recent articulations, affects, and contradictions of Indian creative economy policy, it presents shifting discursive and political histories. Rather than focusing on capital-rich cultural production, it makes a case for attending to unrecognized creativity within activist performance whilst analyzing the latter’s messy collaborations with hegemonic regimes of creativity. Outlines the book’s organization: Part 1 historically and spatially locates a global discursive regime in India, Ahmedabad, and Delhi; Parts 2 and 3 are ethnographies of the two troupes.
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Berchman, Robert M. Origen of Alexandria. Edited by William J. Abraham and Frederick D. Aquino. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199662241.013.38.

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Three philosophical questions guide this chapter: what is mind, what is language, and what is reference (or meaning)? Emphasis centres upon Origen’s episteme of ‘ultimate presuppositions’, first principles, philosophy of mind and language, theory of intentionality, aesthetics of scriptural exegesis, and prayer. His approach to self-knowledge and subjectivity is key to his claims concerning the limits of thought and language, the intentionality of mental acts, and distinctions made between ordinary and ideal languages. As a focusing mechanism, contemplative prayer is examined as an intentionally aesthetic episteme-noesis that gives a logos access to Logos. Here prayer maps ideal types of thought and speech that non-propositionally, discursively, and non-discursively allow for a noesis and praxis of the logikoi, epinoiai, and theoremata of the Logos-Christ. Such mapping denotes Origen’s epistemology of theology as a ‘sigetic-discursive’ model of negative theology.
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Idris, Murad. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190658014.003.0001.

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This chapter discusses three unacknowledged discursive functions of peace—namely, that peace functions parasitically, provincially, and polemically. First, idealizers of peace rarely speak of peace on its own but of peace and security, law, friendship, order, and so on. The chapter calls this structure of discursive supplementation parasitical in which each of these added elements is “an insinuate of peace.” Second, idealizations of peace reflect particularistic desires, fears, interests, anxieties, and theories of difference. This logic of universalized idealization is provincial. Third, idealizations of peace are polemical in that they make peace into an ideal in relation to constitutive antagonisms and against specific enemies. This idealization then enables further hostility. The chapter situates these arguments in relation to affiliated arguments, including “politics is a continuation of war,” “peace talk is empty,” “peace has eroded,” and those of just war theory. Finally, it discusses the political work and theoretical elisions of the tropes surrounding “Islam and peace,” the opposition between “Islam and the West,” and “cross-cultural” understandings of peace.
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Van Dijk, Teun A. Ideology and Discourse. Edited by Michael Freeden and Marc Stears. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199585977.013.007.

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This chapter focuses specifically on the neglected discursive and cognitive dimensions of the theory of ideology, as part of Critical Discourse Studies (CDS). Ideologies are defined as basic shared systems of social cognitions of groups. They control group attitudes (e.g. about immigration, abortion, divorce, etc.) and mental models of group members about specific events and experiences. Polarized (Us versus Them) ideological representations and their categories (identity, actions, goals, norms/values, reference groups, and resources) control all levels of ideological discourse (topics, lexicon, meanings, interaction, etc.). The overall strategy of ideological discourse is the enhancement of Our Good Things, and Their Bad Things, and the Mitigation of Our Bad Things and Their Good Things, at all levels of discourse structure—the so-called Ideological Square. A debate in British Parliament on Asylum Seekers is used as an illustration of the theory.
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Lynch, Deidre Shauna. Philosophical Fictions and ‘Jacobin’ Novels in the 1790s. Edited by Alan Downie. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199566747.013.018.

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This essay on the novel of ideas in the 1790s investigates the sometimes conflicting goals pursue by the ‘Jacobin’ novelists—figures such as Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, and Mary Hays—and also charts their characteristic preoccupations with the proper relations between reason and passion and mind and body. Revamping the Enlightenment tradition of the conte philosophique, these supporters of the Revolution in France and political reform in Britain advocated a newly ambitious species of novel capable of building bridges between the discursive domains of fiction and political theory. These novelists also set out to claim the power over readers’ emotions they found in sentimental fiction’s stories of suffering individuals. At the same time, contrariwise, they aimed to assemble comprehensive accounts of the social system—of ‘things as they are’, in Godwin’s phrase—and touted their commitment to the promulgation of universal, impersonal truth.
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Potter, Susan. Queer Timing. University of Illinois Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252042461.001.0001.

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This book is a counter-history of the emergence of lesbian sexuality in early cinema. Drawing on the critical insights of queer theory and the history of sexuality, it challenges approaches to lesbian representation, initially by reframing the emergence of lesbian figures in cinema in the late 1920s and early 1930s as only the most visible and belated signs of an array of strategies of sexuality. The emergence of lesbian representation and spectatorship in early cinema is not a linear progression and consolidation but rather arises across multiple sites in dispersed forms that are modern and backward-looking, recursive and anachronistic. In this tumultuous period, new but not always coherent sexual knowledges and categories emerge, even as older modalities of homoeroticism persist. The book articulates some of the discursive and institutional processes by which women’s same-sex desires and identities have been reorganized as impossible, marginal or—perhaps not so surprisingly—central to new forms of cinematic representation and spectatorship. Complicating the critical consensus of feminist film theory and history, the book foregrounds the centrality of women’s same-sex desire to historically distinct cinematic discourses of both homo- and heterosexuality. It articulates across its chapters the emergence of lesbian sexuality—and that of its intimate “other,” heterosexuality—as the effect of diverse discursive operations of early cinema, considered as a complex assemblage of film texts, exhibition practices, modes of female spectatorship, and reception.
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Davis, Coralynn V. Homo narrans and the Irrepressibility of Stories. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038426.003.0002.

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This chapter demonstrates that Maithil women weave theories of storytelling into their tales; moreover, some of these theories resonate with those developed in multidisciplinary literatures that consider the role of narrative in human life. Three specific contentions are examined. The first is Maithil women's implicit argument that stories themselves carry a form of agency that renders them irrepressible. This irrepressibility of tales takes on a particularly gendered significance in the context of Maithil gender order. The second narratological point is that stories move and morph. When stories travel across space, genre, context, and teller, as they inevitably do, they change in meaning and content. Finally, Maithil women's tales intimate a theory about the political nature of stories and storytelling: that insights and viewpoints on the social configurations of power are embedded in tales, and therefore their telling is a form of discursive political engagement.
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de Heredia, Marta Iñiguez. Claims to legitimate authority and discursive attacks. Manchester University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9781526108760.003.0005.

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This chapter examines the discursive realm. Discourses are not taken as truths; they convey elements of how power and resistance operate. The chapter examines public and private statements by statebuilders (both national and international) as well as from a wide range of popular sectors (peasant cooperatives, NGOs, journalists, university professors, and street and market sellers). The chapter first examines statebuilding discourses developed as a claim to authority. The chapter then concentrates on mockery, denigration, slandering and subversion of meaning articulated by popular classes. They constitute discursive practices of resistance that deny the claims to legitimate authority and deference.
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Donaghue, Ngaire. Discursive Psychological Approaches to the (Un)making of Sex/Gender. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190658540.003.0006.

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Discursive psychologists question the taken-for-granted status of the categories that are used to classify and investigate human experience (Potter & Edwards, 1996). Instead of assuming the “reality” of sex/gender and conducting empirical investigations into the qualities that characterize “each” of the sexes, discursive psychologists investigate how the concepts of “sex” and “gender” are constructed through their use in both scientific and everyday contexts. For discursive psychologists, there are no “pregiven” meanings attached to the categories of sex/gender. What these categories mean, what they signify, is a matter of negotiation and consensus. This chapter concerns how discursive psychologists have challenged the various assumptions underlying traditional sex differences research and considers alternate approaches drawn from discursive psychology to asking questions about sex/gender.
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Jack, Gavin. Advancing Postcolonial Approaches in Critical Diversity Studies. Edited by Regine Bendl, Inge Bleijenbergh, Elina Henttonen, and Albert J. Mills. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199679805.013.3.

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Postcolonialism provides theoretical resources that speak well to the concerns of critical diversity scholars, notably the interest in culture, power, and the construction of (human) differences. Yet, with notable exceptions, there is a paucity of research on workplace diversity underpinned by postcolonialism. This chapter seeks to animate and advance postcolonial scholarship in critical diversity studies, and responds to calls to revitalize this scholarly sub-field. Based on a review of critical diversity studies (including the few that have used postcolonial perspectives), two recommendations are made to advance postcolonial critiques. First, critical diversity scholars might undertake a closer engagement with psychoanalytic and discursive variants of postcolonial theory to generate complex understandings of the psychological dimensions of (post)colonial subjectivities and the persistence of racism in organizations. Second, scholars might also consider the merits of ‘Southern Theory’ in order to move beyond the noted Eurocentric limits of existing gender and diversity research.
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Arruzza, Cinzia. Tyranny in Athens. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190678852.003.0002.

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This chapter offers a thorough analysis of both the literary tropes surrounding tyranny and the tyrant in fifth-century Greek literature—with some reference to fourth-century and later texts—and the function they played in democratic self-understanding. The chapter addresses the ongoing debate about the existence of a democratic theory of democracy in fifth- and fourth-century Athens, arguing that a proper democratic theory did not exist. Within the context of this debate, the chapter draws on theses of Diego Lanza, Giovanni Giorgini, and James F. McGlew that the depictions of tyranny in anti-tyrannical literature served the purpose of offering to the democratic citizen an inverted mirror with which he could contemplate the key features of democratic practice, by way of opposition. In other words, hatred for a highly stylized discursive representation of tyranny played a key role in democratic self-understanding.
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Grant, Roger Mathew. Peculiar Attunements. Fordham University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823288069.001.0001.

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Peculiar Attunements places the recent turn to affect into conversation with a parallel movement that took place in European music theory of the eighteenth century. During that time the affects—or the passions, as they were also called—formed a vital component of a mimetic model of the arts. Eighteenth-century critics held that artworks imitated or copied the natural world in order to produce copies of the affects in their beholders. But music caused a problem for these thinkers, since it wasn’t apparent that musical tones could imitate anything with any dependability (except, perhaps, for the rare thunderclap or birdcall). Struggling to articulate how it was that music managed to move its auditors without imitation, certain theorists developed a new affect theory crafted especially for music. These theorists postulated that it was music’s physical materiality as sound that vibrated the nerves of listeners and attuned them to the affects through sympathetic resonance. This was a theory of affective attunement that bypassed the entire structure of representation, offering a non-discursive, corporeal alternative. Inflecting our current intellectual moment through eighteenth-century music theory and aesthetics, this book offers a reassessment of affect theory’s common systems and processes. It offers a new way of thinking through affect dialectically, drawing attention to patterns and problems in affect theory that we have been given to repeating. Finally, taking a cue from eighteenth-century theory, it argues for renewed attention to the objects that generate affects in subjects.
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Takagi, Kotaro, and Naohisa Mori. Approaches to Testimony. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190230814.003.0007.

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This chapter develops an ecological and social approach to testimony as an everyday memory practice. It first analyzes the nature of this practice through a history of psychological testimony for more than a century. In recent decades, two approaches to testimony have been dominant: the cognitive and the discursive one, each with its own problems. A hint at a new theory exists in Neisser’s classic study of “John Dean’s memory.” Neisser introduced the concept of “repisodic memory,” roughly defining this concept as representatives or common characteristics of a series of events, in contrast to “episodic memory,” which refers to the representation of a single event. The chapter examines the concept and integrates it with Gibson’s ecological perspective of perception and Bartlett’s schema theory in a synthesis that combines the two approaches. The validity of the new theory is demonstrated by referring to practical and experimental studies that have been performed.
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Groppo, Alejandro. The Two Princes. Eduvim, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.52550/26jbah.

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This book is a comparative study of the political emergence of Perón in Argentina and Vargas in Brazil. it seeks to describe and explain how and why peronism and Varguism were two different political projects. Using the tools of political discourse theory, this book scrutinises the implications Perón and Vargas had for the formation of the political identities of the socio-political actors in both countries. the book shows to what extent the differential character of the process of formation of political identities had to do both with the structural context in which Vargas and Perón developed their strategy as well as with the specific ways in which both leaders intervened in the political formation. In this sense, the research stresses the specific discursive and institutional modes of intervention that characterised these two leaders’ projects and their role in the political imaginary they inaugurated. It does so by tracing the responses to Perón and Vargas by different socio-political actors and the polemic context in which those responses took place.
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Geslani, Marko. The Ritual Culture of Appeasement. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190862886.003.0003.

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This chapter details how the śānti ritual was politicized in the arena of kingship (rājadharma). It examines a collection of ritual manuals (the Appendices of the Atharvaveda) for the royal chaplain (purohita) that evince the growth of Atharvan engagement with divination, and a consequent multiplication of occasions for śānti. Forming an early precursor to the Hindu calendar, these texts delineate the king’s ritual regime, which comes to be dominated by forms of repetitive bathing that incorporate other modes of ritual, such as gifting and sorcery. The Appendices thus represent the apex of a broader culture of ritual appeasement in the Atharvan tradition. This culture not only involves the technical expansion of śānti, but also its discursive potential as part of an encompassing theory of the state.
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