[Commlist] Essex Summer School-Doing Discourse Analysis: Neoliberalism, Populism and Radical Democracy

https://essexsummerschool.com/course/ess-2026-course-list/1m/

Training

University of Essex
CO4 3SQ Colchester, United Kingdom

Date: 6/07/2026 - 17/07/2026

Prof. David Howarth, Dr. Konstantinos Roussos, Dr. Jimena Vazquez Garcia,
University of Essex

2 week course / 35 hours (Please note: This course will be taught online
only. In person study is not available for this course)

This course provides the conceptual and methodological means to use
discourse analysis in the conduct of empirical and theoretical research,
where the aims of the approach are to understand, characterize, explain, and
criticize problematized social phenomena. It serves as a forum to discuss
research strategies that are consonant with the field of poststructuralist
discourse theory, and outlines an approach that can be employed in the
analysis of concrete discourses.

More precisely, the course puts forward an approach to critical explanation,
which comprises five basic elements: problematization; retroduction; logics;
articulation; critique and normative evaluation. Building on Michel
Foucault’s method of problematization, Laclau and Mouffe’s post-Marxist
logics of discourse analysis and various psychoanalytic ideas drawn from
Freud, Lacan and Žižek we seek to investigate the meanings and theoretical
role of a wide range of themes and concepts such as: critique, ideology,
hegemony, antagonism, radical democracy, populism, commons and prefigurative
politics, neoliberalism, health and social care, subjectivity and the
digital.

Such concepts and themes are considered from the point of view of 
methodology
and research strategy, examining the philosophical underpinnings of a
poststructuralist approach to social and political analysis and grappling
with their operationalisation through a range of empirical cases to
illustrate broad methodological and theoretical points.




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