Editors:
- Brings together scholars from disciplines at the nexus of discourse, institutions and politics
- Demonstrates a wide array of discourse and ethnographic methods in analysing institutional practices
- Explores how institutional actors and practices (re)order meaning and power relations in societies across the globe
Part of the book series: Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse (PSDS)
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Workplace Interaction
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Front Matter
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Bodies, Architecture and Space
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Front Matter
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Mass Media Representations
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Front Matter
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About this book
This edited book brings together humanities and social sciences scholars from the various disciplines at the nexus of discourse studies and ethnography to reflect on questions of institutional practices and their political concerns. Institutional order plays an important role in structuring power relations in society. Yet, contrary to common understandings of structure, institutional orders are far from fixed or stable. They constantly change, and they are resisted and reimagined by social actors. The 20 studies collected in this edited volume develop the notion of institutionality as an overarching perspective to explore how institutional actors and institutional practices order and reorder power in societies across the globe. Thereby the chapters pay special attention to the fluidity, volatility, fragility, and ambiguity of order, and consequently to its claims to authority. Employing a broad range of discourse analytic and ethnographic methodologies, the studies show how institutions are discursively and materially constructed, defined, represented and how they are made relevant and become powerful – or how they are resisted, transformed or lose significance – in interaction. Readers will obtain nuanced insights into ways in which differently positioned social actors engage in struggles about how institutions can be imagined and enacted across several domains, such as workplace interactions, architecture, mass-media representations or organisational publicity. This book will be of interest to readers in Applied Linguistics, Discourse and Society, Critical Discourse Analysis, Political Theory and Communication Studies.
Reviews
“In times in which institutions seem to be losing significance due to multi-layered processes of individualisation, this volume beautifully employs the notion of institutionality to demonstrate how dynamics of order production are always subject to change. Both theoretically and empirically insightful, this book advances our understanding of contemporary life through subtle analyses and vivid demonstrations of how processes of power operate in workplace interaction, the mass media, and instances of racism.” (Prof. Dr. Karl-Siegbert Rehberg, Senior professor, Technical University Dresden, Institute for Sociology, Dresden, Germany)
“This edited volume is a treasure grove of studies into the discursive and material dimensions of institutional ordering. It is a must-read for anyone interested in the way our lives and societies get shaped in and through institutions that order norms, values, identities, and discourses. The editors’ anti-essentialist concept of institutionality allows them to articulate an interdisciplinary set of research methods and theoretical perspectives, in a coherent and innovative way.” (Prof. Jan Zienkowski, Chair of Strategic Communication, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Department of Information and Communication Science, Brussels, Belgium)“Wide-ranging and ambitious in its analytical approaches and thematic scope, from the design of work spaces to discourses of economic crisis and organisational branding, this book sets an agenda for the study of institutionality, the complex of relationships between authority, power and social structure examined as discursive and cultural practices in a context of globally shifting forms of communicative style and material signification.” (Prof. Joanna Thornborrow, Professor, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Department of English, Brest, France)
“A theoretically robust, analytically and methodologically comprehensive volume that brings together scholars from different backgrounds in a well curated and coherent collection. The volume provides a holistic discussion on the role of institutions as well as the societal conditions and the role of individual stakeholders in constructing, perpetuating or challenging institutional praxis. The contributors address the concept of institutionality from different angles and make the discussion equally valuable to the experienced and the novice reader. Discourse analysts interested in Workplace research will find a wealth of empirical material and theorisation that will contribute to cutting edge discussions in the field.” (Prof. Jo Angouri, University of Warwick, Academic Director for Education and Internationalisation, Department of Applied Linguistics, Coventry, UK)
Editors and Affiliations
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Faculty of Social Sciences and Public Affairs, University of the Bundeswehr, Munich, Germany
Yannik Porsché
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Faculty of Communication and Mass Media, British University in Egypt, Cairo, Egypt
Ronny Scholz
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Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
Jaspal Naveel Singh
About the editors
Yannik Porsché is a Researcher and Lecturer in Sociology at the University of the Bundeswehr, Munich in Germany.
Ronny Scholz is a Senior Lecturer in Media Research and Media Criticism at the British University in Egypt.
Jaspal Naveel Singh is a Lecturer of Applied Linguistics at the Open University in the UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Institutionality
Book Subtitle: Studies of Discursive and Material (Re-)ordering
Editors: Yannik Porsché, Ronny Scholz, Jaspal Naveel Singh
Series Title: Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96969-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-96968-4Published: 03 June 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-96971-4Published: 04 June 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-96969-1Published: 02 June 2022
Series ISSN: 2946-5990
Series E-ISSN: 2946-6008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXVI, 561
Number of Illustrations: 46 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Intercultural Communication, Political Communication, Social Sciences, general, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Organization