Within the context of social discourse and material reality in the United States, where nearly 1 in 5 women in this country say they have been sexually assaulted, this attempt to establish a causal relationship between transgender people using the bathroom and sexual assault, is not only a false cause fallacy but it is also hypocritical.
Again, while a discussion of the risk and safety involved in these subgroups of women is important in the AIDS discourse, this material is dated and, in its narrow focus, does not lend to the major contribution of this book as a work that challenges how the hierarchical nature of patriarchy adversely affects women's ability to advocate for and protect themselves.
But Herring says that he is not interested so much in hoarding as in "discourses of material deviance"; that is, the web of thought and feeling that, as a society, we have constructed around hoarding.
Findings from a flood disaster case study in the El Paso (US Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) border metropolis highlight how hegemonic discourses reinforce material processes of marginalization in flood-prone social spaces.
They can free us to examine instead the assumptions about safety which are embedded in professional practice and in the actions, interactions, discourses and materials which comprise it.
Note, however, that to say that an entity is "discursively constructed", is not to say that language or discourse brings a material object into existence de novo.
An accompanying book: Another Book about Promotion and Sales Material provides discourse on the same body of work, and comments on topics like why creative freedom needs perfect organization, his decision to turn down the offer to work for President Obama (he was on sabbatical), and his reasons for hating "style".
At the same time, the discourse analysis – mainly via material incorporated as case studies – also pointed to the possible role of the Internet or World Wide Web as a foundational structure for delusions, thought broadcasting and other clinical features of the illness.
Certainly, focusing on the discursive formations as (re productions of knowledge and their linguistic elements alone would encumber the view on what Foucault from a more holistic perspective described as 'dispositif': a net of material structures, discourses, practices and subjective positioning [84, p. 194].
The likelihood of local transport authorities engaging more in cooperation with private mobility providers might lead to renegotiating rules, regulations and access in the public transport arena, thus retroacting on "knowledge and discourses, their sedimentation in material landscapes, institutions and laws to governmentalities, subject formations and empirical practices" [18, p. 619].
