the aim of this article is to study how women read, decode and interpret soap operas. the theoretical paradigm of this study is based on cultural studies. in other words, the theoretical framework is a constellation of the theory of hegemony (in gramsci and hall) and the theory of articulation (in gramsci, hall, althusser, laclau and mouffe). regarding methodology, qualitative method, such as f...

among discourse theories, laclau and mouffe,s theory has great importance, because in this theory we can see that there is a useful relationship between discourse that has originated from linguistics and culture politics and society. laclau and mouffe have been able to formulate a theory that is profitable for explaining political phenomena . how ever this theory is not a homogeneous theory, be...

This article contrasts Mark Bevir’s approach to the history of ideas with a neoGramscian theory of discourse. Bevir puts the case for an ‘anti-foundationalist’ approach to understanding ideas, yet he defends a weak rationalism centred on individual intentions as the original source of all meanings. Discourse theorists specifically Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe also adopt an anti-foundationa...

The present study is a part of a broader multisited field study on involvement of relatives in Danish psychiatry. The article aims to elucidate which political classifications of normality and mental illness that are displayed in two health political campaigns regarding anti-stigmatization and social inclusion and how such classifications co-constitute the subjectivity of individuals suffering ...

In a condensed moment quite typical of the overstated bombast appropriate to a philosopher who was in his heart very much a metaphysician, Alfred North Whitehead once wrote that, “The creation of the world . . . is the victory of persuasion over force” (1933, 90). The metaphysics of Whitehead was a metaphysics of process, one variant of what I have called elsewhere a philosophy of transitions.1...

the islamic revolution helped develop a new discourse and semantic system. one of the methods to study or analyze the political phenomena is critical discourse analysis namely, that of laclau and mouffe›s discourse, the most pertinent. this article examines its main question whether the values of the islamic revolution concepts and identity are constructed, spread and articulated according to l...

La crítica post-marxista a la política de lucha clases trae colación demandas sociales usualmente ignoradas por el marxismo. Sin embargo, en planteamiento Ernesto Laclau y Chantal Mouffe, este paso adelante es seguido dos pasos atrás. Ellos niegan que contra explotación capitalista tenga alguna significación para las masas o guarde algún vínculo esencial con proyecto socialista democrá...

Boundary objects are artefacts that reside in the interface between communities and are capable of bridging assumed and experienced differences. Bridging is not, however, necessarily neutral or consensual activity. With an emphasis on documents, the present paper discusses the politics of boundary objects by analysing the role of archaeological reports at boundaries between communities with con...