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“Blame-Games” and “Blame Avoidance”
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Markus RheindorfRuth WodakMiloš Vec
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world both dramatically and irrevocably. For months, politics and media have focused on COVID-19 and the countless facets of its impact of ever more uncertainty and insecurity in our lives. Following Zygmunt Bauman’s Liquid Fear (2006) and Wodak’s The Politics of Fear (2021), it has become evident that a “politics of fear (and hope)” has been reinforced and instrumentalized by numerous national governments, in significantly different ways. Accordingly, the range of discourses appear to have changed equally dramatically, in terms of both subject matter and discursive practices. Has the pandemic truly altered the strategies and mechanisms of mediatized politics? Which well-understood/well-studied discursive patterns and trends – including interdiscursivity, (re)nationalization, securitization – and which discursive strategies – like the blame-game (Rheindorf & Wodak 2018) and blame avoidance (Hansson 2015) are still to be found in times of COVID-19, perhaps in altered forms? Some may have been marginalized, while the pandemic may have acted as a catalyst for others. Drawing on the Discourse-historical Approach (DHA) in Critical Discourse Studies (CDS), we will raise such questions and attempt to answer them through theoretical considerations and empirical evidence.
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world both dramatically and irrevocably. For months, politics and media have focused on COVID-19 and the countless facets of its impact of ever more uncertainty and insecurity in our lives. Following Zygmunt Bauman’s Liquid Fear (2006) and Wodak’s The Politics of Fear (2021), it has become evident that a “politics of fear (and hope)” has been reinforced and instrumentalized by numerous national governments, in significantly different ways. Accordingly, the range of discourses appear to have changed equally dramatically, in terms of both subject matter and discursive practices. Has the pandemic truly altered the strategies and mechanisms of mediatized politics? Which well-understood/well-studied discursive patterns and trends – including interdiscursivity, (re)nationalization, securitization – and which discursive strategies – like the blame-game (Rheindorf & Wodak 2018) and blame avoidance (Hansson 2015) are still to be found in times of COVID-19, perhaps in altered forms? Some may have been marginalized, while the pandemic may have acted as a catalyst for others. Drawing on the Discourse-historical Approach (DHA) in Critical Discourse Studies (CDS), we will raise such questions and attempt to answer them through theoretical considerations and empirical evidence.
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How Could Art Reflect on Trauma?
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Katherine YoungerLia Dostlieva
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Fluid Zones of Hegemony
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Ayşe ÇağlarEzgican Özdemir
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Parenting and Education
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Biray KolluogluLudger Hagedorn
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Second Transformation: On Green Transition in Post-communist Countries
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Ivan VejvodaMartin Vrba
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Beyond the “Power of the Powerless“
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Milan HanysMuriel Blaive
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Soviet Ukrainian Patriotism in Brezhnev`s Dnipropetrovsk
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Andrii Portnov
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Minority and Majority as Asymmetrical Concepts: The Perils of Democratic Equality and Fantasies of National Homogeneity
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Ludger HagedornTill van Rahden
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Manufactured Alienation
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Adam RamsayIvan KrastevIvan Vejvoda
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The Imperfect Is Our Paradise
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Ludger HagedornJohn Palattella
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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