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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Empty Signifier"”.
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Why public policy ideas catch on: empty signifiers and flourishing neighbourhoods
… how general equivalent demands then become empty signifiers. This thesis develops current understanding on how general equivalents and empty signifiers function through an application to urban governance. It develops a qualitative account of governing in Birmingham using interviews between …
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Recovery from psychosis: A mental health inpatient perspective
… some participants recovery appeared to be an 'empty signifier' that is meaningless and is a word used by services that does not necessarily correspond with some of their experiences of MHI settings.
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Keeping the money under the soap : constructions of the English and English migrants in Australian nationalist texts
… extent 'Englishness' continues to function as an empty signifier, where often opposing stereotypes flourish. For example, while Englishness in Australian cultural forms was at times linked with servility, deference and a rigid class system, it was also linked with militancy and political activism …
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Debating Difference: Haitian Transnationalism in Paul Gilroy’s Black Atlantic
… has many similarities to Laclau’s notion of the "empty signifier" as a way for people to form groups for collective action.</p> <p>I conclude that transnationalism works as better way to describe the black diaspora since black descendants of slaves have retained multiple identities as Africans as …
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“We will remember you, forever!” – remembering through (active) forgetting of Moo-Hyun Roh in South Korea
… of Roh is based on forgotten memories. With this empty signifier, it opened up the possibility for other memories to become vocalized, through the very community it constructed. Through the practice of active forgetting, individuals in South Korean society undertook their political sovereignty. It …