par Zienkowski, Jan
Référence IPA 2017 (05/07/2017 au 07/07/2017: Leicester)
Publication Non publié, 2017
Communication à un colloque
Résumé : This paper presents a framework for the analysis of activism as a discursive self-technique through which social actors publicly (re-) imagine, (re-) articulate and (re-) negotiate social and political relationships through imagined collective action. Activism is an umbrella term for a heterogeneous set of practices through which people rearticulate and negotiate fantasy-infused ideals and social relationships with each other as well as with the practices and institutions that animate the public realm. This notion of activist politics is grounded in a combination of poststructuralist and pragmatist thought on political discourse and subjectivity (Foucault 1982, Holstein and Gubrium 2000, Glynos and Howarth 2007, Bernstein 2010, Verschueren 2011). The author shows how activists link preferred and disavowed modes of subjectivity to preferred and disavowed modes of doing politics. He does so with reference to an analysis of interviews conducted with activists and intellectuals involved in Flemish (Belgian) minority politics. The framework presented here has recently been published in the book Articulations of self and politics in activist discourse: a discourse analysis of critical subjectivities in minority debates (Zienkowski 2014, Zienkowski 2015, Zienkowski 2017).

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