[Commlist] Special issue of the Journal of Language and Politics on ‘Discourse Theory: Ways forward for theory development and research practice’ (published in print)

Just out: Special issue of the Journal of Language and Politics on 
‘Discourse Theory: Ways forward for theory development and research 
practice’

Issue edited by Benjamin De Cleen, Jana Goyvaerts, Nico Carpentier, 
Jason Glynos, Yannis Stavrakakis and Ilija Tomanić Trivundža

The entire issue can be accessed via 
https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/15699862/20/1

This special issue of the Journal of Language and Politics considers the 
past, present and future of discourse theory as a conceptual framework 
and interdisciplinary research practice that is deployed across a wide 
range of fields, including political studies, discourse studies, media 
and communication studies, critical management studies, and policy studies.


The focus of the special issue is on work inspired by the 
poststructuralist and post-Marxist discourse theory originally developed 
by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe (1985), but one central aim of the 
special issue is to highlight the interdisciplinarity of discourse 
theory and the dialogue betweend discourse theory and other traditions.


There are eleven articles in this special issue. Following the English 
translation of a text by Ernesto Laclau hitherto only published in 
French - Politics as the Construction of the Unthinkable - the ten 
subsequent polemic-programmatic articles reflect on ways forward for 
discourse theory.


The aim being to further discourse theory, the editors' invitation to 
the authors, originating from different disciplines, was to critically 
and constructively engage with discourse theory, reflect on its 
strengths but also its limitations, and to propose paths for future 
theoretical development as well as for rigorous and innovative research 
practice.


Table of contents

1. An introduction to the special issue on ‘Discourse Theory: Ways 
forward for theory development and research practice’
Benjamin De Cleen, Jana Goyvaerts, Nico Carpentier, Jason Glynos, Yannis 
Stavrakakis and Ilija Tomanić Trivundža
pp.: 1–9
https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.20077.dec

2. Politics as construction of the unthinkable
Ernesto Laclau (translated by Marianne Liisberg, Arthur Borriello and 
Benjamin De Cleen)
pp.: 10–21
https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.20078.lac

3. Moving discourse theory forward
Benjamin De Cleen, Jana Goyvaerts, Nico Carpentier, Jason Glynos and 
Yannis Stavrakakis
pp.: 22–46
https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.20076.dec

4. Discourse, concepts, ideologies
Michael Freeden
pp.: 47–61
https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.20051.fre

5. Logics, discourse theory and methods
Jason Glynos, David Howarth, Ryan Flitcroft, Craig Love, Konstantinos 
Roussos and Jimena Vazquez
pp.: 62–78
https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.20048.gly

6. The political nature of fantasy and political fantasies of nature
Jelle Hendrik Behagel and Ayşem Mert
pp.: 79–94
https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.20049.beh

7. Critical fantasy studies
Jason Glynos
pp.: 95–111
https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.20052.gly

8. Doing justice to the agential material*
Nico Carpentier
pp.: 112–128
https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.20045.car

9. Towards webs of equivalence and the political nomad in agonistic debate
Tom Bartlett and Nicolina Montesano Montessori
pp.: 129–144
https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.20046.bar

10. “Symbolic photographs” as floating and empty signifiers
Ilija Tomanić Trivundža and Andreja Vezovnik
pp.: 145–161
https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.20050.tom

11. The (discursive) limits of (left) populism
Yannis Stavrakakis
pp.: 162–177
https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.20047.sta

12. Beyond populism studies
Benjamin De Cleen and Jason Glynos
pp.: 178–195
https://doi.org/10.1075/jlp.20044.dec
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