At the intersection between power and knowledge

2009 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 287-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tommaso M. Milani
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Language Test ◽  
Liberal Party ◽  
Policy Document ◽  
Late Modernity ◽  
Academic Production ◽  
Political Rationality

The aim of this article is to analyse a policy document in which the Swedish Liberal Party attempts to substantiate the proposal to introduce a Swedish language test for naturalisation by referring to academic production. Taking this specific text as a case in point, the article draws upon Critical Discourse Analysis and Foucault’s notion of governmentality to show how the rationalisation and legitimation of a particular political proposal is inextricably related to processes of knowledge production. Governmentality will also allow us to understand that language requirements for citizenship are a tangible manifestation of an advanced liberal political rationality in late modernity.

Social Work With Criminalized Women: Governance or Resistance in the Carceral State?

Affilia ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 088610992110147
Author(s):  
Sandra M. Leotti
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Carceral State ◽  
Neoliberal Governance ◽  
Spaces Of Resistance ◽  
And Control ◽  
Criminalized Women

Drawing on findings from a Foucauldian-inspired critical discourse analysis, this article examines the hegemonic ways in which social work engages with criminalized women. Utilizing the analytic of governmentality, I explore the construction of criminalized women in contemporary social work discourse and ask how those constructions support and shape practice with criminalized women. Results show that knowledge production in social work serves as a significant site through which the profession draws on, but also resists, carceral logics. I begin by discussing contemporary social work as a form of neoliberal governance. Specifically, I illuminate the ways in which social work is implicated in surveillance and control and how this involvement is obscured under the framework of helping. I then describe how bold counter discourses, such as those offered by abolitionist and anti-carceral thought foster spaces of resistance within the profession. I argue that social work should claim a stance of radical imagination in which we take seriously the calls to abolish the varying manifestations of the carceral state.

scholarly journals Through eurocentric logics

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-115
Author(s):  
Ernesto Abalo
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
News Discourse ◽  
Political Rationality ◽  
Foreign News ◽  
Victims Of Violence

This study aims to explore the construction of difference in foreign news discourse on culturally similar but politically different non-Western subjects. Applying critical discourse analysis (CDA) together with a critique of Eurocentrism, the study examines difference in newspaper constructions of government supporters and oppositional groups in Venezuela. Discursive differences are evident in the strategies used for constructing the two groups with regard to political rationality and violence. Government supporters are associated with social justice, Venezuela’s poor, dogmatic behavior, and the use of political violence. The opposition, in contrast, is constructed as following a Western democratic rationale that stresses anti-authoritarianism. This group is primarily associated with victims of violence. While the opposition is conveyed as being compatible with Eurocentric values and practices, government supporters to great extent deviate from these norms. Such constructions serve to legitimize politico-ideological undercurrents of Eurocentrism, as the defense of liberalism.

scholarly journals Langue de bois, or, discourse in defense of an offshore financial center

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Weeks
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Rationality ◽  
The Social ◽  
Financial Center ◽  
Language Strategies

Abstract This article brings together trends in Critical Discourse Analysis dating from the 1980s – which examine how language use and ideologies (re)produce social inequality – with current research in the social sciences on neoliberalism and other emerging politico-economic formations. The article addresses such a problematic with an empirical case: the language strategies, dubbed langue de bois, that people affiliated with Luxembourg’s offshore financial center employ to justify their practices. The contribution herein surveys the political rationality of the country’s financial center by analyzing the langue de bois that its representatives and boosters use. These language strategies, furthermore, enable Luxembourg’s finance elites to socialize the domestic public’s understanding of their activities.

scholarly journals Behaving Badly: Critiquing the Discourses of “Children” and Their (Mis)Behaviours

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-127
Author(s):  
Melanie D. Janzen ◽  
Karen Schwartz
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Education System ◽  
Codes Of Conduct ◽  
The Other ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Policy Document ◽  
Behaviour Management ◽  
Poststructural Theory

Discourses of children as deficient and deviant are common within the education system and shape the ways in which educators interact with and respond to children. To illustrate this, we conducted a critical discourse analysis of a provincial policy document that directs schools in the development of Codes of Conduct. Drawing on poststructural theory, we demonstrate the ways in which the discourses within policy construct and reify particular identities of the child and of misbehaviour and how these discourse influence conceptions of behaviour “management.” We argue for a reconceptualization of the identity of the child as a contextualized and socially embedded being. In doing so, we articulate an opening for ethical engagements with children that rely on our responsibility for the other.

scholarly journals The Role of Discourse and Text in the Construction of Organizational Identity

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-98
Author(s):  
Davide Bizjak
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Organizational Identity ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Social World ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
The Social

Functional approaches and practices can be seen as loci of knowledge production and preservation. The present paper provides a comprehensive reflection on the former by discussing in detail the concept of discourse and discourse analysis applied to organisational contexts. Indeed, language and discourse are the principal means by which institutions and organisations create their own social reality. With the aim to clarifying how the social world is constructed and construed through actions of intersubjective meaning-making processes and to avoid the emphasis placed only on micro-linguistic elements, Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) was introduced to raise the attention on the macro-social aspects of discourse within organisations.

scholarly journals O discurso terapêutico e a construção da identidade: uma análise de discurso crítica

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 44-82
Author(s):  
Marilene Tavares Cortez
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Interactional Sociolinguistics ◽  
Late Modernity ◽  
Therapeutic Discourse ◽  
Discourse Practices ◽  
Analytic Models

This paper examines approaches to therapeutic discourse from the point of view of Critical Discourse Analysis as it is conceived by Norman Fairclough. The main aim is to analyse how discourse practices affect the constitution of identities in late modernity. Two analytic models of therapeutic discourse will be critically revisited: the first one developed by Labov & Fanshel (1977) within the framework of Discourse Analysis, and the second developed by Ribeiro et alii (2002) within the framework of Interactional Sociolinguistics.

scholarly journals Discurso e etnografia na pesquisa sobre letramento na comunidade.

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Guilherme Rios
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
The Other ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Other Hand

In this paper on literacy in the community, I argue for the gains of research in discourse, particularly Critical Discourse Analysis, in combination with an ethnographic approach. If for one hand Discourse Analysis proposes to be a tool to make clear the ideological investments in textual materiality (Fairclough, 1992), on the other hand such investment is partially raised in social practices and their networks, of which it is a part. From the relation of discourse with other aspects of social practice, such as participant’s systems of values, beliefs and knowledge in the events, upsurges the need to incorporate an ethnographic approach, as much as a mode of knowledge production as a set of techniques implemented to generate data on those aspects of social practice.

Promoting a safer Church? A critical discourse analysis of the Church of England’s safeguarding policy document

Theology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 124 (3) ◽  
pp. 190-199
Author(s):  
Peter Sidebotham
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Policy Document ◽  
The Church ◽  
Policy Setting ◽  
Independent Inquiry

This article examines, by using principles of critical discourse analysis, the safeguarding policy of the Church of England as presented in the policy document Promoting a Safer Church. Overall, the document provides a succinct and comprehensive outline of the Church of England’s safeguarding policy, setting out a broad and whole-church approach to safeguarding that encompasses activities from prevention through to response and taking seriously the concerns of those who have been abused within the institution of the Church. However, the analysis also reveals some weaknesses of definition and accountability and an ongoing need, as highlighted by the recent Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse report, for a change in culture and behaviour within the Church.

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