Respect is imperative in discourse, whether in a debate round or a presidential debate.
Race is never far from the surface of South African discourse, whether in the form of a maverick youth leader singing Shoot the Boer – deemed inflammatory by white farmers – or black protesters marching on an art gallery over a depiction of the president's exposed genitals.
Theodora Oikonomides, a journalist at the alternative radio network RadioBubble, who has covered the rise of Golden Dawn, voices a fear common to many: "Golden Dawn's favourite themes, such as xenophobia, homophobia and anti-Semitism have now become part of Greek public discourse, whether at the political or at the social level.
Furthermore, just as we interpret the whole of a discourse, whether spoken or written, in the light of its several parts and any particular part in the light of the whole, similarly, we interpret a complex of actions for example, a war in the light of the particular actions of its participants and vice versa.
By and large, I am interested in understanding, through the study of the Bandung Conference as a political discourse, whether or not the nature of the imperatives of the global liberalism adopted by all the nation-states in Africa and Asia might allow the revival of the spirit and ideals related to the Bandung Conference.
And that's all to say nothing of the current Topic A in the national Republican discourse: whether it was appropriate for former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) to invoke Hitler and the Holocaust in characterizing President Barack Obama's nuclear deal with Iran.
From a quite a different theoretical position, McGeeney's (this issue) reflection of one session working with young, economically margainlised men in the UK questions the extent to which group-based interventions have the potential to engender change in dominant discourses, or whether they simply end up reinforcing these.
Secondly, it draws on research with African transnational migrants in northern England to explore their senses of belonging and ask whether these cohere with the described state discourse or whether their feelings of belonging exist in tension with neo-assimilationist policies designed to promote a core national identity.
Again, from Scotusblog: In a manner of speaking, these issues pose the question — a topic of energetic debate in current American political and social discourse — of whether corporations are "people".
