Review Article: The Things We Do with Words – Contemporary Approaches to the Analysis of Ideology

Norval, Aletta J.

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“…The term objective here refers to discursive articulations that have become sedimented so that their contingency is forgotten. Myths appear during periods of dislocation, hence the Bwork of myth is to re-establish closure where a social order has been dislocated^( [42], 328). However, attempts to close meaning and construct society in specific ways are always temporary and contingent because the boundary between the objective and the political is fluid and open for contestation.…”

Section: Discourse Politics and Governmentalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

From Being a Problem to Having Problems: Discourse, Governmentality and Chinese Migrant Workers

Gleiss

2015

J OF CHIN POLIT SCI

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This article analyzes the political effects of the new discourse on Chinese migrant workers that emerged in the 2000s, and how this discourse is contested by an alternative discourse. The article demonstrates how the new discourse has facilitated socialist-liberal governance by transforming migrant workers into self-governing individuals. Moreover, the article argues that socialist-liberal governmentality is based on a post-political understanding that promotes a society without structural differences and reformulates social problems as individual deficiencies. Based on a discourse analysis of Chinese newspaper coverage, the article analyzes how this post-political myth is contested by an alternative understanding of society that repoliticizes migrant workers and their problems. In conclusion, the analysis points to how media discourses can contest governmental projects.

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Section: Discourse Politics and Governmentalitymentioning

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From Being a Problem to Having Problems: Discourse, Governmentality and Chinese Migrant Workers

Gleiss

2015

J OF CHIN POLIT SCI

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“…We therefore situate our approach within the broad field of studies of political ideas in action -or political ideology. We are mindful of the complexity and freighted nature of the term 'ideology' (see Hall, 1988;Freeden, 1998;Norval, 2000;Finlayson, 2012); equally we are conscious that there may be various approaches suitable to the analytical task at hand. We do not therefore intend to argue here for a single or best approach to the study of political ideas but rather to establish a set of 'thinking tools' (Bourdieu, 1990) through which we can develop our argument.…”

Section: Coalition Government 'Localism' and The Rhetoric Of The 'Bigmentioning

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Putting Localism in Place: Conservative Images of the Good Community and the Contradictions of Planning Reform in England

Tait

Inch

2015

Planning Practice & Research

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“…For example, Rosen held that unequal societies, in particular, were not simply preserved by the material forces of coercion, such as the police and the army, but also by a kind of 'false consciousness' or 'non-rational rationalising' on the part of ordinary citizens, who, in any other case, would have genuine material interests in bringing change to that society. 65 Under this analytic, Rosen was indebted to Nietzsche, who had argued that human beings carry off their non-rational rationalisation of society either by Dionysian intoxication and abandonment, or by Apollonian imagining of an ideal realm, based on the notion that there is a reason for everything, even suffering. Unlike Nietzsche, however, Rosen's analytic was less artistic and much more scholarly: it was about uncovering how, in historically specific cases, "certain models of intelligibility and models of the nature of reality come to exercise a hold over particular societies at particular times by meeting the need for explanation in certain ways".…”

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The pathway out of neoliberalism and the analysis of political ideology in the post-crisis world

Wright

2015

Journal of Political Ideologies

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Neoliberalism has not simply 'survived'; it has failed to die, seemingly outlived the socioeconomic conditions that gave rise to its existence. In this way, the non-death of neoliberalism raises some important questions about the nature of ideology, principally: its relationship to socio-economic determinants; how it exercises its grip over subjects and how this grip, or hold, can itself be exorcised. Seeking insights into these questions, this paper tells the story of the scholarly response to the non-death of neoliberalism over a ten year period of crisis: a pre-crisis era beginning with the Asian financial crisis (1997)(1998)(1999)(2000)(2001)(2002)(2003)(2004)(2005)(2006)(2007)) and a post-crisis era beginning with the global financial crisis to the present day (2008)(2009)(2010)(2011)(2012)(2013)(2014)(2015). The paper considers key scholarly responses to the persistence of neoliberalism at three fundamental levels: (a) the trajectory of their analytical technique, or the key concepts that underpin their wider project; (b) their critique of neoliberalism, or how these concepts render the construction of core neoliberal ideals; and, (c) their ideological response to neoliberalism, or their recommendations regarding the pathway out of neoliberalism. On this basis, the paper engages in a discussion of the most plausible explanation for the non-death of neoliberalism and the most likely avenue along which the post-crisis world might build an escape. words 2 The Pathway out of Neoliberalism and the Analysis of PoliticalIdeology in the Post-Crisis World The Non-death of NeoliberalismRocking pluralist notions of collectivism and the public interest, neoliberalism emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s trumpeting its core notions of competitive markets and a limited state as the solution to the nagging problems of unemployment, inflation and the lack of economic growth. In the decades that followed, neoliberalism reoriented key policy sectors in national economies across the North Atlantic and the Asia Pacific from health and education, to banking and finance, to trade and international relations. In the first decade of the new millennium, however, a liquidity shortfall in the US mortgage market precipitated a crisis that only state intervention prevented from becoming a catastrophic melt-down of the entire global financial system. At the height of the crisis, former agents of neoliberalism demanded decisive state intervention in the very governance regimes in which they had supplanted state authority, assumed self-regulatory functions and pressed consistently for still greater autonomy and market based freedoms. As the crisis unfolded, states demonstrated the centrality of their capacities for redistributive politics and shaping social compromises to the smooth functioning of the global economy. They seized control of troubled banks and investment houses. They printed and spent vast sums of public money to provide stimulus to faltering national economies. They bailed-out failing private enterprises, pro...

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Review Article: The Things We Do with Words – Contemporary Approaches to the Analysis of Ideology

Cited by 63 publications

References 2 publications

From Being a Problem to Having Problems: Discourse, Governmentality and Chinese Migrant Workers

From Being a Problem to Having Problems: Discourse, Governmentality and Chinese Migrant Workers

Putting Localism in Place: Conservative Images of the Good Community and the Contradictions of Planning Reform in England

The pathway out of neoliberalism and the analysis of political ideology in the post-crisis world

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