Juggling grammars, translating common-place: Justifying an anti-liberal referendum to a liberal public

Gajdoš, Adam; Rapošová, Ivana

doi:10.1080/23254823.2018.1436448

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“…It is, therefore, the interaction between time, space, clinical judgments, and sensory engagement that determines the different situations in which couples/beneficiaries juggle between different grammars [31] when producing meanings around the embryos. This multi-layered grammatical structure accompanies beneficiaries' subjective progression throughout the clinical path-from the beginning until the end of the parental projectand can change during this path's different moments of success and failure, its setbacks, deadlocks, and restarts.…”

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“…The new status requires an emotional investment in the embryo-albeit of a different nature-that does not fall into the technical distance associated with an understanding of the embryo as a set of cells (industrial grammar). This transfer to the civic grammar-a transfer between orders of worth [31]-provides beneficiaries with a less radical rupture, with the cognitive and moral understanding involved in (and emotional experience attached to) connectionist and domestic grammars, than would a direct transfer to the industrial grammar.…”

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‘Focusing and Unfocusing’—Cognitive, Evaluative, and Emotional Dynamics in the Relationship with Human Embryos among ART Beneficiaries

Gouveia

Delaunay

2022

Societies

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This article uses data gathered from a study conducted in Portugal to examine the (plural and composite) conceptions that doctors, embryologists, and beneficiaries of Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) have of the in vitro human embryo. Taking the sociology of engagements, developed by Thévenot, as its theoretical lens, the article draws on a total of 69 interviews with ART patients to analyse the plurality of fluid meanings produced about this biological entity, whose status is neither static nor universal. ART beneficiaries are likely to produce plural conceptions of the lab-generated embryo within the framework of different regimes of engagement, understood as cognitive and evaluative formats. These various pragmatic regimes, in turn, entail distinct emotional investments. When speaking about their relationship with embryos, beneficiaries therefore express plural emotional experiences, which are articulated using terms such as affection, love, detachment, loss, frustration, hope, mourning, and anguish. Using the theoretical framework of the sociology of engagements, we propose an approach that enables us to produce a detailed record of the connections between the cognitive, evaluative, and emotional dimensions in beneficiaries’ relationship with—and decision-making processes about—the embryos, accounting for the plasticity of emotional states linked to the (re)configuration of attributed meanings.

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‘Focusing and Unfocusing’—Cognitive, Evaluative, and Emotional Dynamics in the Relationship with Human Embryos among ART Beneficiaries

Gouveia

Delaunay

2022

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“…However, although such popular votes may seem zero-sum, they are conflict maximising [Kużelewska 2019: 23]. The referendum represented a tipping point in the crystallisation of a new conservative political front [Gajdoš and Rapošová 2018]. It brought the topic of same-sex marriages and civil unions into the spotlight and initiated unprecedented public debate [Rybár and Šovčíková 2016: 86].…”

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“…In short, narrative genres shape the dynamics of the referendum controversy. The apocalyptic genre enables the referendum proponents to legitimise the importance of the national referendum, despite that it only confirmed the status quo and bore illiberal foundations [Gajdoš and Rapošová 2018]. While referendum mobilisation requires a highly inflated narrative about salvation from an apocalyptic decline, the demobilisation endeavours of the referendum opposition correspond to the moderately inflated genres of romance and tragedy.…”

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'A Milestone in the History of Slovakia': Two Narratives about the 2015 Referendum on the Family in Slovakia

Rétiová¹,

Alica²

2022

Czech Sociological Review

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This paper examines a discursive controversy that arose in Slovakia after a conservative civic association initiated a referendum to protect 'traditional families' against the supposed encroachment of LGBTI rights. The 2015 referendum represents a tipping point in the formation of a new Slovak conservative political front. In this article, meaning making among actors civically engaged in the referendum is brought to light by re-constructing the deep cultural structures in which they are immersed. Drawing upon the strong programme in cultural sociology, I analyse the master narratives woven through the discourse of the referendum organisers and boycotters. These narratives are re-constructed from 20 semi-structured interviews with the engaged actors and a corpus of 82 written documents, such as blogs, speeches, and declarations concerning the referendum. The analysis employs the methods of thick description and the structural analysis of narrative genres. It shows that, first, the referendum controversy presents a clash between a narrative of social decline and a narrative of social progress. The narratives serve as moral regulators by deploying emotionally loaded images of nostalgia for 'traditional families' and a utopia of unconditional progress. Second, although both narratives interpret the referendum as a milestone in the history of Slovakia, they do so in different genres with specific implications for action. Using the example of the decision by referendum opponents to withdraw from the prereferendum debates, I demonstrate how narrative genres as implicit and deep cultural structures have the power to orient action and shape the contours of controversy.

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How Does Politics Take Closeness into Account? Returns from Russia

Thévenot

2019

Int J Polit Cult Soc

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Juggling grammars, translating common-place: Justifying an anti-liberal referendum to a liberal public

Cited by 7 publications

References 17 publications

‘Focusing and Unfocusing’—Cognitive, Evaluative, and Emotional Dynamics in the Relationship with Human Embryos among ART Beneficiaries

‘Focusing and Unfocusing’—Cognitive, Evaluative, and Emotional Dynamics in the Relationship with Human Embryos among ART Beneficiaries

'A Milestone in the History of Slovakia': Two Narratives about the 2015 Referendum on the Family in Slovakia

How Does Politics Take Closeness into Account? Returns from Russia

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