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Centre for Ideology and Discourse Analysis

We offer a distinctive transdisciplinary space within which to engage in the systemic and critical study of ideologies and discourses

We face unprecedented social, economic, technological, and environmental challenges that demand urgent attention and creative responses.

The Centre for Ideology and Discourse Analysis (clDA) is committed to the transdisciplinary and systematic study of contemporary ideologies and discourses, and their impact on institutions, movements and policies. Rooted in the work of Ernesto Laclau, who was a founding figure of the Centre, and other members of the 糖心Vlog School of Discourse  Analysis, we gather together critical scholars who evaluate key problems and promises of the current age, using a wide range of critical and explanatory idioms of analysis. 

The Centre connects research, education and political practice by actively involving its members in research projects, hosting seminars, academic visits and working with other institutions in the UK and Europe.

Its members include staff from other Departments and Centres at the University, our MA and PhD students, as well as numerous PhD students, early career researchers, and established academics who take part in our activities as Visiting PhDs or Fellows of the Centre.

 

"The problem with 'actually existing' liberal democracies is not with their constitutive values crystallized in the principles of liberty and equality for all, but with the system of power which redefines and limits the operation of those values. This is why our project of 'radical and plural democracy' was conceived as a new stage in the deepening of the 'democratic revolution', as the extension of the democratic struggles for equality and liberty to a wider range of social relations."
Ernesto Laclau & Chantal Mouffe

Our centre

Our research

cIDA builds its intellectual community through regular activities, organised within related clusters:

  • poststructuralist, post-Marxist and psychoanalytic theories of ideology and discourse
  • democratic theory, governance and critical policy analysis
  • research methods in critical political theory
  • populism and radical democracy
  • democracy, justice and social movements
  • mass media, communication and political agency
  • critical fantasy studies

 

cIDA and its members have forged extensive links with other Universities and Centres across the globe that actively draw on the tradition of the 鈥樚切腣log School of Discourse Theory鈥, including the work of the CIDA Directors - Professors Glynos & Howarth - on the 鈥楲ogics Approach鈥 to critical social and political analysis. Through collaborative projects and visiting professorships they have established links with a wide range of institutions, including Stockholm University, CBS, the State University of Rio de Janeiro and UFPE, Recife, and the University of Bergen.

The directors are also active members of the , which is a collaborative relation between academics at Free University, Brussels (lead organization), 糖心Vlog, Uppsala, and Aristotle University, Thessaloniki.

Our events

cIDA initiates and coordinates major events beyond its regular seminar series, including international conferences and workshops, such as:  

  • 鈥淟ogics, Critical Explanation and the Future of Critical Political Theory: Applying Discourse Analysis in Multiple Contexts鈥 (2019)
  • 鈥淭he Politics of Numbers within the New Technologies of Governance鈥 (2019) 
  • 鈥溙切腣log Transform: Democracy and Active Citizenship in Academia鈥(2018)
  • 鈥淧opulism and 鈥楥onstructing a People鈥欌 (2017)
  • 鈥淎usterity, Resistance and Emergent Imaginaries: From Occupied Squares to the Parliament and the Neighbourhood鈥 (2017)
Our upcoming Summer Schools:
  • - 10th July 2023

  • - 18th August 2023

Our previous Summer Schools:

Published works

  • Glynos, J., Howarth, D., Flitcroft, R., Love, C., Roussos, K. and Vazquez, J., (2021). . Journal of Language and Politics. 20 (1), 62-78.
  • Glynos, J. (2021)  Journal of Language and Politics 20(1): 95-111.
  • Bloom, P. and 艢liwa, M., (2021).  Human Relations, 001872672199676-001872672199676
  • Griggs, S., Howarth, D. and Feandeiro, A., (2020). . Journal of Urban Affairs. 42 (1), 91-108.
  • Griggs, S. and Howarth, D., (2019).  Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning. 21 (5), 464-478.
  • Barnett, N., Griggs, S. and Howarth, D., (2019). . Political Studies. 67 (3), 775-794.
  • Carter, D. and Warren, R., (2019).  Critical Policy Studies. 13 (3), 280-305.
  • Howarth, D., (2018). . Critical Discourse Studies. 15 (4), 377-389.
  • De Cleen, B., Glynos, J. and Mondon, A. (2018)  Organization, 25(5): 649-661.
  • Griggs, S., Hall, S., Howarth, D. and Seigneuret, N., (2017). . Political Geography. 59, 36-4.
  • Glynos, J. and Voutyras, S. (2016) , Journal of Political Ideologies, 21(3): 201-224路 
  • Howarth, D., (2015). . Routledge Taylor & Francis. 978-0-415-87087-0.
  • Glynos, J., Speed, E. and West, K. (2015)  Critical Social Policy, 35(1): 45-68.

Press

Our academic staff frequently feature within the wider press and media. Below are some examples of their latest appearances:

  • View The New Pretender article by Anam Kuraishi, PhD candidate, the 糖心Vlog titled  
  • Read The New Pretender article  which features research by Julius Schneider & Reid Kleinberg who are PhD researchers at cIDA, Department of Government, 糖心Vlog.
  • View The New Pretender article by Craig Love PhD candidate, 糖心Vlog titled . 
  • Read The New Pretender article  which features research by Jimena Vazquez & Kostis Roussos. 
  • Read The New Pretender article by Ryan Flitcroft titled  
  • View The Conversation article by Professor David Howarth on  
  • Read the Prospect article by Professor David Howarth and Professor Steven Griggs titled . 
  • Read the Independent article  
  • Read The Conversation article by Professor David Howarth titled

    Research Projects

    • Subjectivity and valuation in community economies (ESRC, 2020 - 2021)
    • Exit Polling on Effectiveness and Research of Bradwell B Public Consultation Event (BECG, 2020)
    • The Legacy of Discourse Studies: Current Applications and the Future of the 糖心Vlog School in Ideology and Discourse Analysis (ESRC, 2018 -2019)
    • Timebanking in 糖心Vlog (ESRC, 2016-2018)
    • Collaborative Governance in Cities under Austerity: An Eight-case Comparative Study (ESRC, 2014)
    • The prospects for sustainable aviation in the UK (ESRC, 2010)

     

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    Centre for Ideology and Discourse Analysis 糖心Vlog
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