While psychoanalysis aims to diagnose how the non-discursive forces, such as, repression or unconscious racial habits, play a significant role in persisting social inequalities, postmodernists tend to focus on discourse (see Derrida 1978, 280).
Although few would think we have unmediated access to materiality, including the materiality of our bodies, some think the focus on discourse has been at the expense of the material, as Hekman (2008: 86) puts it.Thus, although the aim was to understand the real in discursive terms, there has been instead a privileging of the discursive.
This paper focuses on discourses of transition in the electricity system in the Irish print media, with particular attention to both the framing and the scalar referents of the debate.
Accordingly, we have approached the subject matter by focusing on discourses of sustainable electricity in the Irish print media, with particular attention to both the framing and the scalar referents of the debate.
In a four-year program there is more scope for development: (Thwaite & Rivalland 2009)) describe a unit for fourth year pre-service and practising teachers which focused on discourse analysis, and which they were then able to apply to analysing their own practice.
Yet, this is also the level at which interventions such as those of the MDTP find hardest to engage with effectively (Ferguson 1994), which in fact often leads them to stay focused on discourse rather than practice (Büscher and Dressler 2007; Büscher 2009, 2010a).
In addition, DTC personal genetic testing has been a focus of discourse on the potential for geneticization of social identity and questions over the meaningful extrapolation of individual genetic differences for group memberships.
We focus on CMs' discourses and practices concerning FP.
With this shift in perspective, the focus of discourse remained on subordination, patriarchal oppression, and victimization.
While we focus on crisis discourse and its repercussions on local integration policies, this discourse in some cases may build on a widely shared experience of crisis, whilst in other cases it is a narrative that is strategically used to inform people's perceptions of reality.
