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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"hegemonic discourse"”.
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The Application of Critical Discourse Theory: A Criterion-Referenced Analysis of Reports Relating to Language Revitalisation in Australia and New Zealand
… area of social policy, and does not address the hegemonic and counter-hegemonic discourse that is at the very core of language revitalisation efforts. It is therefore argued here that LPP needs to be explicitly underpinned by critical discourse theory (CDT) if it is to be of genuine use to those …
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Framing Income Inequality in the Media: Is There a Liberal or Neoliberal Bias?
… bias in framing income inequality, a neoliberal hegemonic discourse pervades how the issue is addressed. Finally, I address the significance of social mobility as an absent frame in the media's discourse on income inequality.
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Reimaginando A Bolívar En La Cultura Latinoamericana
… a revisionist perspective with regard to the hegemonic discourse of the Bolivarian official history, exploring how these recent representations of the so-called “hero” contradict the already established scheme of national identity. In order to illustrate the deconstruction of hegemonic …
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Argentina in The African Diaspora: Afro-Argentine And African American Cultural Production, Race, And Nation Building in the 19th Century
… and/or rejected in the construction of the discourse of national identity in the nineteenth century. My argument is, however, that their cultural productions were disruptive of such hegemonic discourse as they did not only reflect the social, political, and economic reality of these groups …
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Debating 'Islamic Feminism': Between Turkish Secular Feminist and North American Academic Critiques
This project questions western hegemonic discourse about the non-western Other, specifically the Muslim woman subject, through a post-colonial critical point of view. It takes the debate on Islamic feminism, especially in North American academy as a departure point of a discussion relating that …
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A Postcolonial Inquiry of Women's Political Agency in Aceh, Indonesia: Towards a Muslim Feminist Approach?
… study is to challenge the dominant exclusivist discourse of "Islamic" feminism by providing a viable alternative for "Muslim" feminism(s), derived from collaborative, indigenous, and post-secular politics. I address the need for a religious feminist model of subjectivity that incorporates both …
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Sexual tension : the imagined learner projected through the recontextualising of sexual knowledge into pedagogic communication in two curricula in South Africa and Ontario, Canada
… conducts a textual analysis of the structure and discourses present in two sets of sex education curriculum documents - one from South Africa and one from Ontario, Canada. It did so to make visible the imagined learner projected by these curricula in the recontextualising of sexual knowledge into …
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German-Polish cross-border co-operation and the politics of transgression
… of the Other to increasingly European discourse, especially after 1989. Cross-border co-operation, the author argues, has become integrated into the structures of power, has become a rule. Using discourse analysis, the author presents the change of German and Polish discourse on the …
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Salman Rushdie in the Postmodern Current: New Venues, New Values
… of the colonial country assumed in postcolonial discourse. Instead, his recent fiction is labeled postmodern because it is filled with exuberant postmodern techniques such as historiographic metafiction, the hegemony of mode of productions, the postmodern fragmented self, and suspicions of grand …
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Becoming la raza: Chican@ counterpublicity and rhetorics of the Viet Nam War
… a rhetorical history of Chican@ movement discourse(s) positing racial otherness through the language of “la raza” in the United States during the Viet Nam War. Racial discourse(s) advancing notions of La Raza were circulated, amplified, stretched, and even resisted among Chican@ movement …
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‘Support and Sanctions’ A critical account of the professional ‘realities’ of homelessness
… could also support the development of a counter hegemonic discourse.
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Brazilian Modernism: A Discourse of Unity and Suppression
"This study is a critique of the hegemonic discourse of Brazilian Modernism. I examine the rhetoric of Brazilian literary historiography and criticism, with special emphasis on the way the modernist movement of the 1920s was historicized. I demonstrate how this kind of scholarship complies with the …
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Land/seascapes of exclusion: social order on the coastal margins
The hegemonic discourse of coastal planning and development has an impact on the social ordering of Aotearoa/New Zealand’s coastal communities in a number of ways. One way in which social order is controlled and maintained is through the (ab)use of boundaries. Boundaries constructed and maintained …
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Assessing risk within primary care: Logics, contingencies, histories
There has been an explosion of discourse about risk and risk assessment beginning in the 1980s, growing during the 1990s and continuing to accelerate. This has extended to the arena of mental health care where there is an expectation for services to assess and manage risks, and high quality …
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Challening privacy: Using the national DNA database to support victims of sexed violence
… sanction for victims of this crime due to hegemonic masculinity. Campaigning groups for Violence Against Women call for more robust case-building in cases of sexed violence where DNA forensic evidence is crucial. The HM Inspectorate of Constabulary's recent report 'Without Consent' …
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The Revaluation of the National Language in a Post-National Era: Language Policy and the Governance of Migration and Citizenship
… examines the influence of neo-liberal discourses and strategies of governance on a revaluation of the national language, in the form of formalized requirements and testing of language proficiency, within immigration, integration, naturalization, and citizenship policy in Canada and the …
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Meaning is Use: Civic Initiatives and Europeanisation from below in Bulgaria
… in the research question through adopting discourse as the key vehicle for developing the theoretical and analytical frameworks. Premised on the poststructuralist emphasis on meaning, Europeanization is theorized as a process of signification whereby democratic norms are fluid and dependent …
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"Like Their Lives Depended On It": The Role of Comics in Subverting Anti-Arab and Islamophobic Discourse
… and subversion of anti-Arab and Islamophobic discourse. It seeks to address the following questions in particular: how does the medium of comics interpellate subjects regarding the Western discursive formation that conflates Arab, Muslim, and terrorist? What does the medium of comics afford …
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Towards a neoliberal citizenship regime: A post-Marxist discourse analysis
… Theoretically it is inspired by a post-Marxist discourse analytical approach that focuses on discourses as political strategies. This approach has made it possible, through an analysis of changing citizenship discourses, to understand how the neoliberalisation of New Zealand's citizenship regime …
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