Recent graduates' views were sought on these initial findings to validate whether their experiences corroborated with our suggested employability discourse claims.
The growth discourse claims that the central factor for social, economic, political and environmental progress is economic growth – it is assumed to create wealth, and provide the necessary means for social and environmental purposes.
The dominant discourse claims that multiculturalism celebrates difference but not unity, that it grants rights to immigrants without imposing duties to integrate to the host society, and that it leads to the fragmentation of society by enabling them to live in parallel micro-societies.
These efforts, intentional or not, have done a great deal in advancing Muslims in the public eye, showing them for who they really are instead of what modern and historic Western discourses claim on their behalf.
In the end, they're actually strategically relying on the very discourse they claim to oppose.
Yet in a lot of public discourse, the claim that something is based on "science" can become a sort of protective coloration, a camouflage.
A white President promoting a similar agenda would receive similar treatment (though, again, note the "revisionist" views of some of the focus group participants toward Clinton), but it is a basic misunderstanding of how race works in our political discourse to claim that this counter-factual disproves the import of race.
From there it is easy to slip into thinking of science as a "discourse", whose claims make sense only within its own framework and so cannot be judged as any more true than those from a "discourse" based on different assumptions.
CSR discourses often claim to be 'doing good to do good,' particularly in relation to delivering aid and development in so-called 'developing' countries, when that may not indeed be the case (Brei and Böhm 2013).
Should all religious discourse that claims supreme truth-making power over other religions disappear from the public?
