The Discourse of Politics in Action: Politics as Usual
- ISBN-10
- 0230018815
- ISBN-13
- 9780230018815
- Category
- Political science (General)
- Pages
- 252
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-04-28
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Author
- Ruth Wodak
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"Ist of Figures, Tables and Photographs x Preface xi 1 'Doing Politics' 1 1 Public politics: the 'frontstage' 1 1.1 Performing politics 1 1.2 Communicating politics 5 2 Staging politics: integrating performance, habitus, communities of practice, and the discursive construction of professional identities 7 3 Looking behind the scenes: the 'backstage' 14 4 Politics/politicians and the media 17 4.1 Media and crisis: broadcasting 'snapshots' 17 4.2 Disenchantment with politics: fictionalization of everyday politics in the media 19 5 Relevant dimensions for the study of everyday politics 23 2 The (Ir)rationality of Politics 28 1 The many - presupposed - meanings of 'doing politics' 29 2 Discourse, politics and power 32 2.1 Inter/trans/multidisciplinarity and 'relevance' 32 2.2 Power and critique 34 2.3 Discourse, text and context: the Discourse-Historical Approach in CDA 38 3 Power, knowledge and presuppositions 45 4 Orders and disorders: analysing organizational everyday routines 49 3 'Politics as Usual' on the 'European Stage': Constructing and Performing 'European Identities' 57 1 Introduction: Quo vadis, Europe? 57 2 Multiple identities in the European Parliament 62 2.1 The European Parliament: in the aftermath of the European Convention 62 2.2 Constructing Europeanness: the European Parliament 65 2.3 La tribu exotique 71 2.4 Individual/social/collective identities 75 3 On being an MEP 80 3.1 Talking to MEPs 80 4 On being European 94 4.1 'What does "European" mean for you?' 94 4.2 'Constructing Europeanness': discourse analysis of selected interview sequences 97 4.3 Visions ofEurope 106 5 Some concluding thoughts 110 4 One Day in the Life of an MEP 113 1 Long days and much paper 113 2 Ways of knowing: framework for analysing ethnographic data 119 3 Starting the day 121 4 Committee meeting 126 5 The missed photo opportunity 137 6 Lunch 138 7 Evening lecture 145 8 'Doing politics': performing backstage 151 5 Everyday Politics in Television: Fiction and/or Reality? 156 1 The 'American Dream'? 156 2 The fictionalization of politics 161 3 Politics and media 162 4 Constructing the modern hero 164 4.1 Wild West and The West Wing 164 4.2 Genre and 'plot' - The West Wing episode 'Commencement' 167 4.3 Politicizing fiction 172 5 Conclusions 183 6 Order or Disorder - Fiction or Reality? The Implications of 'Power and Knowledge Management' on 'Politics as Usual' 187 1 'Banal' politics? 187 2 An integrated interdisciplinary theoretical framework 190 3 Representation and legitimation 194 4 Expectations and disappointments 201 5 The fictionalization of politics and the politicization of fiction 203 Appendix Original German Data (Chapter 3) 208 Notes 211 References 223 Index 241.
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