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Book SynopsisDrawing inspiration from the works of those such as Jacques Derrida, Michael Foucault and Jacques Lacan, the contributors address particular questions using a common theoretical language. The book concludes with an assessment of the future directions of discourse theory in the social sciences.
Table of Contents1. Introducing discourse theory and political analysis - David Howarth & Yannis Stavrakakis
2. The political frontiers of the social Argentine politics after Peronism (1955-1973) - Sebastian Barros & Gustavo Castagnola
3. Inter-war French Fascism and the Neo-Socialism of Marcel Deat: The emergence of a ‘Third Way’ - Steve Bastow
4. New environmental movements and direct action protest: The campaign against Manchester Airport's second runway - Steven Griggs & David Howarth
5. Provisionalism and the (im)possibility of justice in Northern Ireland - Anthony Clohesy
6. The Mexican revolutionary mystique - Rosa Nidia Buenfil Burgos
7. On the emergence of Green ideology: The dislocation factor in Green politics - Yannis Stavrakakis
8. The construction of Romanian social democracy, 1989–1996 - Kevin Adamson
9. Beyond being gay: The proliferation of political identities in Hong Kong - P. Sik-Ying Ho & A. Kat Tat Tsang
10. The secret and the promise: Women’s struggles in Chiapas - Neil Harvey & Chris Halverson
11. The difficult emergence of a democratic imaginary: Black consciousness and non-racial democracy in South Africa - David Howarth
12. Democracy as the limit of Kemalist hegemony - Nur Betul Celik
13. Sex and the limits of discourse - Jason Glynos
14. Future trajectories of research in discourse theory: Political frontiers, myths and imaginaries, hegemony - Aletta Norval