[ecrea] new book series - discourse, power and society

Discourse, Power and Society [New Series from Rowan and Littlefield]



Series Editors: Martin J. Power, Amanda Haynes, Eoin Devereux and Aileen 
Dillane (University of Limerick, IRELAND)



Book Proposals Welcome!

The Discourse, Power and Society series will publish edited collections, 
monographs and textbooks which problematize the relationship of 
discourse to inequality, exclusion, subjugation, dominance and 
privilege. In doing so, the linkages between discourse, modes of social 
organisation, lived experience and strategies of resistance will be 
addressed. Discourse is understood as both an expression and a mechanism 
of power, by which means particular social realities are conceived, made 
manifest, legitimated, naturalized, challenged, resisted and reimagined.

This series is edited by an eponymous interdisciplinary research cluster 
located at the University of Limerick, Ireland, which provides a 
platform for researchers working within sociology, sociolinguistics, 
political science, education, ethnomusicology and social geography to 
come together to advance their shared interest in the critical analysis 
of public discourses and the elucidation of their social meaning, 
significance and material impacts. The publications record of the series 
editors – Drs Martin J. Power, Amanda Haynes, Aileen Dillane and Eoin 
Devereux – reflects the interdisciplinarity of the endeavor, each 
utilizing discourse analysis as theory and method, across the fields of 
sociology, ethnomusicology, popular music, cultural studies and media 
studies.

Theoretically, books in this series are envisaged as:

•Illuminating the generative power of discourse in constructing, 
sustaining and challenging inequitable modes of social organization.
•Interrogating the potential of discourse to both foreclose and promote 
alternative frameworks of understanding within the public consciousness.
•Uncovering the conditions under which established and radical 
discourses flourish or are dismissed.

Empirically, the series editors are particularly interested in 
publishing work which:

•Documents the frameworks of understanding proffered by contemporary and 
historical discourses, including their temporal and cultural specificities
•Unearths the historical roots of popular and ‘common sense’ discourses.
•Unpacks the socio-political contexts which inform discourses.
•Uncovers the interests served by specific discursive formations.

Methodologically, the series will welcome texts which:

•Address key ontological and epistemological debates within the broad 
field of discourse analysis.
•Curate collections of essays by cutting edge researchers on approaches 
to discourse analysis as method.
•Provide introductory and supporting materials aimed at final year 
undergraduate and postgraduate students who are new to the analysis of 
discourse.

The discourses, which form the subject matter of this series, will 
include both mainstream and alternative public, political, policy, 
legal, musical and cultural discourses. This interdisciplinary 
collection will include texts located in sociology, cultural studies, 
musicology, socio-linguistics, social psychology, legal studies, 
political science, education and more. A range of theoretical 
perspectives are anticipated, including but not limited to Foucauldian 
discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis (drawing on Van Dijk, 
Wodak and Fairclough), traditions originating with Laclau and Mouffe and 
Bourdieusian treatments.





More details: 
http://www.rowmaninternational.com/series/discourse-power-and-society



Informal inquiries are welcome: email (martin.j.power /at/ ul.ie)





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