Recently, we have witnessed the emergence of what appears to be a new set of claims in contemporary social movements based around the idea of autonomy. In this paper we interrogate this demand for autonomy. In order to do this, we first engage with existing literatures, identifying three main conceptions of autonomy: 1) autonomous practices vis-à-vis capital, or, what Negri calls, the ‘selfvalo...

this study explains the formation of islamist discourse in turkey and its impact on its foreign policy (with an emphasis on justice and development party -akp). the findings which are based on discourse analysis of ernesto laclau and chantal mouffe, indicate that the islam-minded modern turkey actors (in akp) could weaken one of the main aspects of kemalist ideology in a democratic and peaceful...

this article examines women's discursive space of physical activity in order to answer an important question: why most women have problems with regular physical activity and cannot permanently benefit from a long-term regular exercise program. the analysis was performed with concepts discussed in the discourse theory of laclau and mouffe(1995). there are two main discourses in the women&ap...

L’idée d’hégémonie, dans son acception gramscienne, circule entre différents champs, espaces géoculturels et différentes époques. La démarche adoptée cet article part des contextes lequel cette idée est mobilisée, afin de montrer à quels enjeux théoriques pratiques elle répond. En se focalisant sur quatre auteurs ...

Abstract In the face of ever escalating global socioecological crises, necessity radical systemic transformations has gained increasing political and academic traction over last decade, among others in context ‘green’ bio-based economies. We draw on works philosophers Ernesto Laclau, Chantal Mouffe Judith Butler to develop a typology transformational dynamics. this typology, word transformation...

the role of media in today´s world is undeniable and no border can be imagined for information transfer. among these, one controversial issue in the media is gender and women. this study examines female subjects in discourse atmosphere of iran´s cinema. it probes their situations and the way of confrontation with them regarding common discourses in two traditional and modernist structures in ir...

the purpose of the present paper is to focus on the eleventh year of the islamic calendar in order to achieve a new reading of the ridda / apostasy movement and to prove that the quraysh caliph had meant by islam to address most of the arabs living in the arabian peninsula. due to the prominence and representation of the elements of politics and power, this study looks through a discursive lens...

the aim of this article is to analyze the religious discourses represented in the movie “ketabe qanoon”. in this study mikhail bakhtin’s theory on polyphonic novel is used in which he believes that these novels do not have a univocal voice and instead reflect voices of different social strata. in order to analyze the movie, the methodology of laclau and mouffe is used. findings show that the mo...