scholarly journals The Women Want The Fall of The (Gendered)Regime

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-183
Author(s):  
Alice Chancellor
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Discussion Groups ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Gender Discourse ◽  
State Feminism ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Alternative Discourses ◽  
Opening Up

The post-2011 breakdown of state media authority in Syria exposed a multilayered terrain of competing counter-discourses, in which citizen journalists were positioned as narrators of events on the ground. Conceptualized in this paper as Emerging Syrian Media (ESM), the rapid pluralization of Syria’s media landscape has irrevocably transformed how citizens engage with the discourse disseminated by the al-Assad regime. However, this phenomenon has not been examined through a gender-based approach. Employing a feminist post-structuralist perspective and utilizing subaltern counterpublic theory, this paper examines whether the opening up of a virtual space has enabled the creation of an online feminist counterpublic, through which Syrian women are able to challenge the dominant representations of gender within the Syrian state feminism discourse. A Critical Discourse Analysis of texts produced by two state-affiliated media outlets reveals the intrinsically patriarchal nature of Syrian state feminism, while a narrative analysis of seven interviews with women participating in Emerging Syrian Media explores the ways in which such a discourse is being challenged. Through their performance of ‘active narrator’ identities, production of anti-regime discourses, and participation in women’s discussion groups, all seven women expressed an ability to counter the gender discourse of the regime. The occurrence of such challenges within confined spheres of activity results in the theorizing of a specifically ‘inward-oriented’ online feminist counterpublic within the ESM online space, whereby alternative discourses on gender can be both established and enacted.

Discipline and Commoditize: How U-Visas Exploit the Pain of Gender-Based Violence

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 464-491
Author(s):  
Ghazah Abbasi
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
State Agencies ◽  
Policy Reforms ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
U Visa

U-Visas are granted to immigrant survivors of gender-based crimes. I use critical discourse analysis to examine 100 U-visa cases. I present two arguments. First, U-Visa adjudication establishes a panoptics of pain that disciplines survivors. The panoptics of pain transforms immigrant suffering into objects of scientific knowledge. Second, U-Visas establish an economy of pain that commoditizes survivors’ suffering. The economy of pain establishes transactional exchanges between immigrants and state agencies while generating economic profits for carceral corporations. I conclude with microlevel policy reforms to make U-Visas less exploitative of petitioners, and macrolevel policy reforms to empower working-class immigrants and prevent gender-based violence.

Femicide and the Speaking State

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 283-306
Author(s):  
Sumru Atuk
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Political Rhetoric ◽  
Social Consequences ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Gender Based Violence ◽  
Gender Based

Abstract High rates of gender-based violence and sexist political rhetoric are central features of contemporary Turkey. This article explores the complex relationship between the two by drawing on the literature that investigates the (re)making of the category of “woman” in the Middle East and the scholarship on femicide/feminicide. The article employs critical discourse analysis of ruling politicians’ gender-normative statements and shows how they reconstruct the category of “proper woman” as one with institutional and social consequences that compromise women’s safety. Using John L. Austin’s theory of performative speech acts, the article develops a theory of the speaking state to explain the effects of political speech. Ultimately it argues that the politics of “woman making” is central to “the politics of woman killing.”

scholarly journals The erasure of nature in the discourse of oil production

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenge Chen ◽  
Tom Bartlett ◽  
Huiling Peng
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Analytic Framework ◽  
Hegemonic Discourse ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
The Public ◽  
Discourse Strategies ◽  
Oil Company ◽  
Alternative Discourses

Abstract In this two-part article, we analyse alternative discourses of the environment from the Shell Oil Company and Greenpeace USA and suggest ways in which elements of these antagonistic discourses might be combined in a hybrid, innovative discourse that appeals to a broad section of the public while advocating for more environmentally sustainable practices in industry. In order to develop this model we address concerns with regard to both Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), which has been said to focus on the negatives and on deconstructing ‘the discourses we dislike’, and Positive Discourse Analysis (PDA), which has been criticized for cherishing ‘the discourses we like’ without due consideration of their potential for uptake. We argue, therefore, that while each approach has its advantages, taken individually they hamper design and, following Bartlett (2018), we propose an enhanced Positive Discourse Analysis that not only identifies points of fissure in the hegemonic discourse but also seeks points of convergence that can be articulated with in a hybrid, counter-hegemonic discourse that maximizes its potential for uptake while destabilizing the prevailing discourses at precisely the fissure points identified. Part I explores the theoretical grounding for an enhanced PDA, introduces the research method and then, based on the adapted analytic framework of Stibbe (2016), makes an eco-discourse analysis of discourses by Shell Oil Company (SOC), with a focus on their discourse semantic patterns, in an attempt to showcase how hegemonic groups employ discourse strategies to serve their interests and what ecological effects such discourses may produce. In Part II (Chen et al. 2021b), a comparative analysis is conducted on the SOC discourses and the Greenpeace discourses. As well as highlighting the points of antagonism between the two discourses, an attempt is made to seek out points of convergence between progressive positions in the discourses. Part II also explores the potential fissures in the hegemonic order and discusses the design of alternative discourses thereupon. It is argued that an enhanced PDA which focuses on solutions rather than problems and collaboration rather than resistance forms a route for positive and interventionist orientations to discourse that promote social change.

scholarly journals Symbolic (Self-)Identifications of Care Workers in Diasporic Media: Romanian Migrant Women in Italy

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-114
Author(s):  
Irina Diana Mădroane
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Media Space ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Skilled Migrant

AbstractThe article looks at a corpus of personal stories told by Romanian migrant women who work as caregivers in Italy or by journalists, from the women’s perspective, in two Romanian diasporic publications. It aims to gain an insight into the ways the narrators use the diasporic media space to (re)situate themselves in relation to the home and host societies. A methodological framework that incorporates elements from narrative analysis and critical discourse analysis is applied for examining the (self-)construction of agency and social roles, the negotiation of belonging to social categories, and the positionings that emerge, including towards dominant worldviews and discourses on low-skilled migrant women. The findings indicate that the women narrators build their identities in a complex interplay of (dis-)empowering stances, using their experience of migration to attain agency and to contest, but also reaffirm, in a transnational context, traditional gender roles, occupational and class stigmas, and stereotypical perceptions of nationality.

scholarly journals Hegemonic Discourses of Métis Identity in British Columbia, Canada

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-95
Author(s):  
Gabrielle Legault
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
External Factors ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Colonial Institutions ◽  
Internal And External Factors

Viewing Métis identity not as a natural, essential, or fixed phenomenon, but as an experience formed through internal and external factors, this article examines the mechanisms by which people residing in British Columbia identify as Métis. Through interviewing Métis Peoples and engaging in Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Narrative Analysis (NA), this research demonstrates how Métis narratives centre on and replicate three hegemonic discourses based on racial mixedness, Métis cultural values, and Métis nationalism. The ‘Métis subject’ is then not an easily described coherent subject, but rather a co-constructed description based on transient identification with multiple and sometimes contradictory texts, which are themselves made meaningful through discourses. Understanding ‘Métis’ in this way allows for an exploration of the role of power in producing meanings of ‘Métis’ and how individuals, groups, and institutions can strategically mobilize particular meanings and resist definitions of Métis prescribed by Eurocentric perspectives embedded in colonial institutions.

scholarly journals ¿Un trabajo ilegal? Análisis crítico del discurso sobre el narcotráfico en jóvenes de Mexicali, Baja California

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Anel Hortensia Gómez San Luis ◽  
Ariagor Manuel Almanza Avendaño
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Drug Trafficking ◽  
Baja California ◽  
Discussion Groups ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Entertainment Media ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
The Government

This study seeks to contribute to the understanding of discourses on drug trafficking made by young people from Mexicali, Baja California. Drug trafficking generates various ethical positions that encompass its acceptance, rejection, or ambivalence. The construction of their discourses is influenced by speeches produced by the government and entertainment media and by the degree of closeness to drug trafficking in everyday life. Discussion groups were held, and critical discourse analysis was carried out. Discourses about drug trafficking have implications for the incorporation of young people into the activity and its normalization in local contexts. It is recommended to research personal processes that promote the rejection of drug trafficking at an individual level, despite pragmatic acceptance that normalizes it in the community.

The Making of Cosmopolitan Selves: the Construction of Identity of Russian-Speaking Immigrants in New Zealand

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Elena Maydell
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Identity Constructions ◽  
The Impact

<p>According to the 2006 Census (Statistics New Zealand, 2007), more than one-fifth of the New Zealand population is born overseas. Immigrants play an active role in New Zealand economic and demographic growth, with more new arrivals choosing to settle in New Zealand every year. While research into migrant issues is on the rise, the impact of growing cultural diversity on national identity requires further investigation, especially in relation to many ethnic groups underrepresented in social sciences. This thesis presents the research into the issues of identity construction among Russian-speaking immigrants, a group never investigated before in New Zealand and only infrequently elsewhere. The objective of this work is to fill the knowledge gap in this area by providing information on the socio-cultural context of immigration experiences of Russians in New Zealand and investigating the way their identity is constructed through mainstream discourses and in the personal accounts of 21 participants from Wellington. The nature of this thesis is qualitative and interdisciplinary. The theoretical foundation draws on social constructionism (Burr, 1995; Gergen, 1991) and discourse theory (Foucault, 1972; Howarth, 2000). Socio-historically, this scholarship may be located within the broader frames of the postmodern critique of globalization and transnationalism (Bauman, 1998; el-Ojeili & Hayden, 2006). One of the objectives of this research was to apply and evaluate different qualitative frameworks and paradigms in order to achieve a more comprehensive understanding of the issue under investigation. The combination of different analytical methods and techniques included: thematic analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2006), Critical Discourse Analysis (Fairclough, 1989; Wodak, 1996), positioning theory (Harre & Van Langenhove, 1999), ethnography and narrative analysis (Merriam, 2002). The first study presents a critical discourse analysis of identity constructions of Russian-speaking immigrants articulated by New Zealand mainstream print media. Consistent with international and New Zealand research on media portrayals of immigrants, the overall representation of this migrant group in New Zealand media follows the general trends of criminalization, homogenization and commodification of immigrants, with the dominant construction of them as a 'problem' to New Zealand society. Two other studies use in-depth ethnographic interviews as the data collection method. The first interview presents a narrative analysis of a case study of a Russian Jewish woman who has experienced double migration from Russia to Israel and then to New Zealand. Lara's story vividly illustrates the process of social construction in relation to her sense of self in three different cultures. It reveals the interaction between the power of social forces in dictating rules for identity formation and the role of agency in an individual's striving for a coherent sense of self. The analysis of 20 in-depth interviews with Russian-speaking immigrants in Wellington identifies the most common and salient patterns of identity construction in this group. Many participants report the feelings of identity loss and exclusion, based on their understanding of negative attitudes and wide-spread stereotypes among the host population. While some participants try to negotiate inferior identity constructions assigned to them on the basis of their 'outsider' status, others strive for constructing a new type of identity - cosmopolitan identity - which they locate within the global, rather than any local, context. These findings contribute to the recent developments in social science research in such areas as identity studies, discourse, globalisation, transnationalism and cosmopolitanism.</p>

Telling Tales

1999 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greer Cavallaro Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Conversation Analysis ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Conversational Analysis ◽  
Relations Of Power

This paper presents a progressive understanding of the shifting power relations that are constructed in the telling of a courtship and marriage narrative by an Australian-Italian couple who have been married for well over thirty years. The focus on relations of power is pursued through attention to aspects of the sequenced talk to show how the couple work together to tell the interviewer a newsworthy story that is "old news" to each other. The use of two analytical frames derived from different combinations of narrative analysis (NA), conversational analysis (CA) and critical discourse analysis (CDA) facilitates two readings of the same data. The two frames provide different means of showing how the story tellers negotiate and happily survive specific threats to produce a congenially delivered story in the end. The use of first, a "bottom-up" approach to the data followed by a "top-down" approach enables power relations first at the local level between husband and wife to be inserted later into a wider ideological and discursive context. Overall the paper shows how the application of multiple perspectives to narrative analysis can deepen our understanding of storytelling practices. (Narrative analysis, Conversation analysis, Critical discourse analysis)

scholarly journals Opening up the NHS to market

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 288-303 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gavin Brookes ◽  
Kevin Harvey
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Social Care ◽  
Corporate Identity ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Care Provision ◽  
Textual Evidence ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
Opening Up

Abstract Since its implementation, the British Government’s controversial 2013 Health and Social Care Act has had far-reaching effects on health care provision in England, not least the creation of 212 regional practitioner-led clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) which are now responsible for much of the service provision across the country. Taking as an example the website of one of these new commissioning groups, this study shows that multimodal critical discourse analysis (MCDA) can reveal how health and social care matters are being increasingly framed within a corporate and neoliberal set of ideas, values, identities and social relations. Despite government assurances that the Act preserves the (non-commercial) founding values of the NHS, our MCDA provides textual evidence of the influence of neoliberal and commercial discourses operating across this particular website, which appear to be just as much about promoting an appealing corporate identity as responding to the practical, day-to-day concerns of patients.

scholarly journals Metodologias de estudos da narrativa e do discurso na interpretação de fontes orais de história

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 01
Author(s):  
Glauco Vaz Feijó
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Oral Narratives ◽  
Seminal Work ◽  
Language Studies ◽  
Discourse Studies

Resumo: A partir das considerações de uma historiadora e de um historiador sobre a ausência do uso de metodologias de estudos da linguagem no manejo de fontes orais de história, proponho uma memtodologia híbrida de interpretação de narrativas orias que se remete ao trabalho seminal de William Labov e se desdobra no uso da Análise Crítica de Narrativa e da Análsie Crítica de Discurso como metodologias interdisciplinares com potencial para contribuir com o trabalho de historiadores que utilizam fontes orais com feramentas metodológicas que possibilitam o trabalho sitemático com a linguagem.Palavras-chave: Narrativas Orais; Análise Crítica de Narrativa; Análise Crítica de Discurso. Methodologies of narrative and discourse studies in the interpretation of oral sources of historyAbstract: Based on the considerations of two historians about the absence of the use of methodologies of language studies in the management of oral sources of history, I propose a hybrid interpretation of oral narratives that refers to the seminal work of William Labov and deploys the use of Critical Narrative Analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis as interdisciplinary methodologies with the potential to contribute to the work of historians who use oral sources with methodological tools that enable the systemic work with language.Keywords: Oral Narratives; Critical Narrative Analysis; Critical Discourse Analysis. 

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