Essays about: "Laclau and Mouffe"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 87 essays containing the words Laclau and Mouffe.

1. 21. 1970s and 1980s Representations of British Cultural Identity in Textbooks used in ESL Education in Swedish Upper-secondary Schools

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS)

   Author : Jessica Olsson; [2020]
   Keywords : Textbook analysis; ESL education; upper-secondary school; representation; British cultural identity; discourse theory; theory of stereotyping; views on culture.;

   Abstract : The aim of this study is to examine how British culture and British cultural identity is discursively constructed and represented in two texts, including images accompanying the texts, found in two textbooks used in the foundation course for English as a second language in the Swedish upper-secondary school, the textbooks published in the 1970s and the 1980s respectively. The aim also includes to see if British cultural identity is represented in a stereotypical manner and to see which views on culture are present in the texts. READ MORE

3. 22. Mythical Horizons and Liminality: Discourses of Kosovo’s Sovereignty

   University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

   Author : Ejner Pedersen Trenter; [2020]
   Keywords : Sovereignty; Discourse; Liminality; Myth; Foreign Policy; Kosovo;

   Abstract : Despite the frequency of use amongst scholars of IR, myth remains largely a term of colloquiality. However, this paper aims to argue that as a distinct temporal and normative structure within discourse, it is a powerful tool for understanding the ways in which narratives give meaning to political phenomena, not just by describing how they are, but how they ought to be. READ MORE

4. 23. Who are "the immigrants"? - A discourse analysis on forming “immigrants” as a group in the Swedish party leader debates of 2013 and 2017

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Pernilla West; [2019]
   Keywords : discourse; immigrants; immigration; Sweden; politics; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : Using Laclau’s and Mouffe’s discourse theory, this thesis examines how the discursive formation of ”immigrants” as a group has developed in the Swedish party leader debates of 2013 and 2017. During these years the number of immigrants had a record year and the conversation and politics on immigration changed drastically in Sweden. READ MORE

5. 24. Media Portrayals of Protests : A Discursive Analysis of Newspaper Articles on Gilet Jaune protests in France

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Europastudier

   Author : Matilda Nilsson Morris; [2019]
   Keywords : Populism; Social Media; Journalism; Identity; French Democracy; Gilets Jaunes; protests; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : The way conflicts are understood depends on how identities are conveyed through media. Newspapers’ reports of the Gilets Jaunes protests in France during the autumn 2018 are no exception. One factor that can influence which choices are made in describing identity, is the distance between the place of publication and the location of events. READ MORE

6. 25. Discursive (re)articulations of development policy in the light of Sustainable development goals: The case of Georgia

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Development Studies

   Author : Ivane Lomidze; [2019]
   Keywords : Discursive change and continuation; Neoliberalism and social democracy in Georgia; Sustainable Development Goals; Post-development theory; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : The paper analyses the ways Georgian government produced development policy in relation to the changing global and local discursive formations of development. By bringing together post-development theory and Laclau and Mouffe’s discourse analysis method, I illustrated that the neoliberal discourse failed to generate meanings regarding social issues that created a danger of the dislocation of the discourse. READ MORE