Explores what discourse analysis should focus on and how discourse analysis can be carried out Examines lines of division that crisscross the field of discourse analysis and elaborates different theoretical-methodological positions Explains the virtues of an integrative and transdisciplinary approach to discourse research

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Tomas Marttila is Senior Lecturer in sociology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany. His research examines the neoliberal culture of enterprise as well as transnational convergence of education policies. He is author of The Culture of Enterprise in Neoliberalism (2013) and Post-Foundational Discourse Analysis (2015).

Inhalt
Chapter 1: Introduction to the Volume; Tomas Marttila.- Part I: Foundations.- Chapter 2: Post-foundational Discourse Analysis: Theoretical Premises and Methodological Options; Tomas Marttila.- Chapter 3: Discourse and Heterogeneity; Lasse Thomassen.- Chapter 4: Hegemony Analysis: Theory, Methodology and Research Practice; Martin Nonhoff.- Chapter 5: The Retroductive Cycle: The Research Process in Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis; Jason Glynos and David Howarth; Part II: Case Studies: Culture, Politics, Populism.- Chapter 6: Eating Power: Food, Culture and Politics; Fabio Parasecoli.- Chapter 7: About Dislocations and Invitations: Deepening the Conceptualization of the Discursive-Material Knot; Nico Carpentier.- Chapter 8: Rhetorical-performative Analysis of the Urban Symbolic Landscape: Populism in Action; Emilia Palonen; Chapter 9: Solidarity in Europe and the Role of Immigration Policies: A Discourse Theoretical Perspective; Efharis Mascha.- Chapter 10: 'The People' and its Antagonistic Other: The Populist Right-wing Movement Pegida in Germany; Ronald Hartz.- Chapter 11: Cultural Differences in German Discourses on Refugees: A Political Geographical Perspective;Annika Mattissek and Tobias Schopper.- Chapter 12: Populism vs. Anti-populism in the Greek Press: Post-Structuralist Discourse Theory Meets Corpus Linguistics; Nikos Nikisianis, Thomas Siomos, Yannis Stavrakakis, Titika Dimitroulia and Grigoris Markou.- Part III: Possibilities Of Critique.- Chapter 13: Tensions in the Post-Althusserian Project: Descriptive Indeterminacy and Normative Uncertainty; Geoff Boucher.- Chapter 14: Post-foundationalism and the Possibility of Critique: Comparing Laclau and Mouffe; Marius Hildebrand and Astrid Séville.- Chapter 15: Post-foundationalism, System Theory and the Impossibility of Critique; Niels Åkerstrøm Andersen, Erik Højbjerg and Anders la Cour.