[ecrea] CfP- workshop & publication project: Materialist_Discourse_Analysis: Methodological entanglements.

Call for papers

Workshop and publication project

Materialist_Discourse_Analysis: Methodological entanglements.

07.07.2016-08.07.2016

University of Warwick, United Kingdom

In this workshop, we seek to explore how a decidedly materialist 
approach to discourse can be put into practice. Bringing together 
contributions from a range of disciplines, we will think through the 
methodological implications materialism has for Discourse Studies, and 
vice versa.

> From the beginning, discourse analysis (in the broadest sense of the term, as an approach at the intersections of language, politics, and society) and materialism have been intimately connected. Constituting a relationship of varying intensity and visibility, this entanglement is for example present in Marxist critique of ideology, materialist semiotics, Russian formalism, Critical Theory, Psychoanalysis, or ‘French’ structural Marxism and discourse analysis. This highly diverse field continues to provide different strands of discourse analysis with a complex, in many ways even contradictory notions of materialism, ranging from essentialist/substantialist, over dialectical, to post-representationalist ones. The issue is further complicated by the construction of alleged incompatibilities (for example between ‘materialism’ and ‘post-structuralism’) and a battery of dichotomies (materiality/discourse, discourse/reality, language/materiality, language/reality, etc.)
, which

c
 onstitute a prominent focus of theoretical debates. Especially with 
the emergence of New Materialism, material semiotics, or material 
culture studies and a renewed interest in the materiality of discursive, 
social, and political realities, what exactly ‘materialism’ denotes 
has become the subject of intense debate in the social sciences and 
humanities again.

Particularly the methodological consequences to be drawn from a 
decidedly materialist perspective on discourse remain rather opaque, and 
are rarely explored systematically. Therefore, the workshop will 
constitute a space to discuss practical implementations of discourse 
analysis as a materialist method.

We invite proposals that
â—?	explore this issue against the background of concrete examples from 
a broad range of subject areas
â—?	and in relation to a range of different theoretical frameworks, 
which are animated by a critical and/or interventionist impetus


Contributions could address (but are not limited to) the following aspects:

â—?	What qualifies a discourse analytical method as materialist?
â—?	The methodological and epistemological implications materialisms 
have for discourse analytical methods
â—?	Analysing the materiality of discourse, and the discourse on materiality
â—?	Materialist approaches to the study of subjectivation and ideology
â—?	Materialist methodologies within praxeological and pragmatic 
approaches to discourse
â—?	Post-representationalist and -foundationalist methods of discourse 
analysis
â—?	Trajectories of materialism in discourse-analytical methods and the 
historical relation between materialism and discourse analysis
â—?	De-colonial and non-western methods of materialist discourse analysis
â—?	Feminist-materialist methodologies and epistemologies
â—?	Discourse-analytical methods that rework prominent Marxist 
categories, such as class(,) struggle, production, reproduction, 
accumulation, or crisis

We look forward to submissions that reflect on the implications of the 
chosen aspect(s) for their own research and/or political practice. 
Contributions from researchers or collectives without formal academic 
affiliation are explicitly welcome. A small quantity of travel grants is 
available for participants without access to institutional funding. 
Please mention your requirements alongside your application, we will 
then get in touch and discuss possibilities.

The goal of the workshop is to work towards an edited volume that takes 
stock and explores materialist methodologies in the field of Discourse 
Studies. Papers for publication will be selected on the basis of the 
participants’ submission and the discussion at the workshop.

Please submit your abstract (of no more than 400 words) and a short bio 
by January 18, 2016 to

(materialistdiscourse /at/ warwick.ac.uk)

Papers (of no more than 5000 words) should be submitted 10 days before 
the workshop. Please note that it is crucial to adhere to this deadline 
in order to be considered for the publication.

Johannes Beetz, CAL, University of Warwick
Veit Schwab, CAL & PAIS, University of Warwick

Contact person: Johannes Beetz; Veit Schwab
email: (materialistdiscourse /at/ warwick.ac.uk)
Address: Centre for Applied Linguistics
The University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
United Kingdom

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