Performing populist leadership online: Discursive and multimodal construction of a shared social identity. [PDF]
Abstract Populist leaders are known for engaging supporters through compelling rhetoric, sparking debate about what persuasive strategies they use to mobilize voters. While research shows that leaders creatively frame their communication, the role of social media–especially its multimodal affordances–remains poorly understood.
Jaakkola J +3 more
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Phraseology “without meaning”: Politics of emptiness [PDF]
We have heard many times expressions such as: “empty words”, “empty talk”, “hot air”, but is there really an empty “phraseology”, one that does not mean anything, i.e., that does not have a clear referent (the idea it refers to)?
Ostojić Aleksandar +1 more
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Conceptualizing kirchnerismo [PDF]
What is the nature of kirchnerismo? The experience of the period encompassed by the presi-dencies of Nestor and Cristina Kirchner have generated greater controversy regarding its characterization.
Peruzzotti, Carlos Enrique
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The ethics of interpretation : The signifying chain from field to analysis [PDF]
This paper attempts to describe the relationship between the embodied practice of fieldwork and the written articulation of this experience. Starting from Valerie Hey's conceptualisation of 'rapport' as form of 'intersubjective synergy', a moment of ...
Lapping, Claudia
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The affective underpinnings of soft power [PDF]
The concept of soft power occupies a prominent place in International Relations, foreign policy, and security studies. Primarily developed by Joseph S.
Solomon, Ty
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Populism as an Essentially Contested Concept or: On the Dangers of Centrism
The term «populism» is most often used polemically, and notably as a pejorative term, denoting an actual or potential threat to democracy. If, however, all problems and challenges to democracy are projected into an image of the populist danger, we ...
Hans Marius Hansteen
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Suffering in silence: bodily politics in post-1995 French cinema [PDF]
Developing earlier research by the author that had sought to trace the specificity of the current wave of socio-politically engaged film, this article focuses in on the body, suggesting that it has become a core vector of ‘raw’ expressivity in recent ...
O'Shaughnessy, M
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Musicology as an Institutional Discourse: Deconstruction and the Future of Musicology
This essay analyzes musicology as an institutional discourse, as a collective and social practice that is not only produced and transmitted within particular institutional networks, but is also profoundly shaped by those networks.
Kevin Korsyn
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Tensiones y desplazamientos conceptuales de lo social en la obra de Laclau [PDF]
La diferencia entre lo social y lo político constituye uno de los núcleos temáticos de la obra de Ernesto Laclau. El artículo aborda la definición de lo social en diferentes etapas de su trabajo, teniendo en cuenta el planteo original de los años 80, su ...
Leonela Infante, Javier Nuñez
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Where constructionism and critical realism converge: interrogating the domain of epistemological relativism [PDF]
The paper interrogates the status, nature and significance of epistemological relativism as a key element of constructionism and critical realism. It finds that epistemological relativism is espoused by authorities in critical realism and marginalized or
A Hesketh +83 more
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