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...Lasse Thomassen Abstract Going beyond conventional conceptions of political representation, Ernesto Laclau takes representation to be a general category and not just limited to formal political institutions, and he takes representation to be performative in that it also brings about what...

.../07393148.2019.1596688 ARTICLE An Ontology of Global Order? Heidegger, Laclau, and Political Difference Franze Wilhelm. Research Group on International Political Sociology at the Institute of Social Sciences, Christian Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany ABSTRACT The question of ontology in thinking about global order(s...

...Taavi Sundell Abstract Post-foundational Discourse Theory (PFDT), initially developed by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, provides a systematic discursive perspective on political phenomena, the economy included. However, ever since Laclau and Mouffe rejected economism in their Hegemony...

... the criticism in regard to more recent literature in the field and offers an alternative perspective for analyzing democracy in the region, which draws on the radical democratic theory by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe. Using the case of Latvia, I discuss Laclau’s account of ethnopopulism and critically...

...Frank A. Stengel; Dirk Nabers Abstract This symposium explores the value of Poststructuralist (or Political) Discourse Theory (PDT) for the analysis of world politics. PDT was originally developed by the late Argentine political theorist Ernesto Laclau, in early works together with Chantal Mouffe...

..., and real estate increasingly functions as an investment opportunity, causing housing prices to skyrocket. The resulting political-economic crisis dynamic constitutes fruitful ground for populist opposition voices. Adopting Ernesto Laclau’s framework, the article analyzes the 2021 election programs of three...

... serves as the equivalent for all asset values. This general equivalent is conceptualized as a master signifier. Based on Laclau’s political theory and theories of International Political Economy, the article argues that it is the master signifier, which not only defines the assets’ value relations...

... for a New Political Science DOl: 10.1080/07393140903105959 292 Mark Purcell and Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe.5 Those familiar with Laclau and Mouffe's work will recognize their particular influence here. My engagement with this theory has been "directed" in the sense that I have examined it in search...

... that the work of Chantal Mouffe, Ernesto Laclau, and Slavoj Zizek are more likely to bestow practical alternatives. What might those alternatives be? Chantal Mouffe suggests one possibility in her essay outlining her theory of agonistic pluralism? Mouffe argues that because postmodernity entails...

... reigned dominant in Latin American studies from the mid 1960s to the late 1970s, at which point Ernesto Laclau's publication of Politics and Ideology in Marxist Theory initiated a discursive turn in studies of populism.16 From his initial work to the most recent publication of On Populist Reason, Laclau...

... conceptualizations of crisis that reach beyond agent-centered constructivism are critically scrutinized, paving the way toward an understanding of crisis as discursively generated. In doing so, a particular strand of political discourse theory (PDT), associated with the late Ernesto Laclau's work,'2...

...-capitalist movement is explored. It is argued that while Holloway draws upon relevant and important aspects of Adorno’s thinking, he does so by reinforcing some of the more problematic elements in Adorno’s theory. Finally, Ernesto Laclau’s characterization of political struggle is brought in to fully flesh...

... deliberation) in the past. This feat of imaginative recovery offers an alternative narrative of loss to compete with the right wing conservatism of Ronald Reagan. Through a comparison with democratic theorists Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, I argue that this enables him to emphasize the local memories...

... ways constitutive for societies on and off the battlefield. Recent debates on war call for rethinking war in a more vernacular, critical sense. By joining this call, the article takes its cues from the theory of hegemony as developed by political theorist Ernesto Laclau in order to pave a theoretical...

... Laclau's seminal work On Populist Reason in 2005. Being arguably the most comprehensive theoretical frame on populism, Laclau's work inspired further research by scholars such as Stavrakakis, de Cleen and Thomassen, to name but a few. Drawing primarily upon Laclau's 1 insights, discourse theorists...

...? That is, securitization theory still has to develop an explanation for "why particular representations resonate with relevant constituencies" and others do not.8 Drawing on the poststructuralist discourse theory (PDT) of the Essex School as proposed by Laclau and Mouffe,9 this article develops a framework that can...

... of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, this paper argues that, first, through the effect of the mass media on society and on the relations of power and resistance, immigration as a threat and a security concern has become the hegemonic discourse type in government policy. The argument will be illustrated...

... - including much taken for granted by post-foundational theories. I respond in the spirit of the disagreement that should animate democratic politics. Post-Foundationalism and Political Economy Sundell argues that Laclau and Mouffes' Hegemony and Socialist Strategy did not preclude a post-foundational...

... emphasis on lifestyle and the transformation of subjectivity, to a new postmodern politics rooted in the struggles of new social movements and developments in postmodern theory. Such a form of reconstructive postmodern politics, however, advanced by Laclau and Mouffe, among others, stakes out a position...

... themselves as the most viable way forward for progressive activists committed to undermining multiple forms of oppression. To keep pace with this shifting political terrain, some political theorists, and most notably Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, began in the early 1980s thinking much more carefully...