Discourse Analysis

Question 1

Discourse

Answer 1

• a system of statements within which the world can be known
• also produces reality
• some representations become hegemonic (dominant/unquestioned acceptance)

Question 2

Discourse Analysis

Answer 2

• Research approach
• Connections between language, power, inequality and ideology
• Contextualize representations
involves more than analyzing the context of texts- discourse analysis is concerned with the way in which texts themselves have been constructed in terms of their social and historical “situatedness”

Question 3

Power Femininity

Answer 3

• Subject effect of post feminist discourse
• Powerful feminine identity/subjectivity
• Powerless/victim to powerful/empowered subject
• ’Girl power’
• Celebration of femininity
• Depoliticized

Question 4

Agency

Answer 4

• Individualistic vs. collective 
• Aestheticization  
• Consumerism 
• Transformative/resistive 
“Women are told that they are unstoppable. They can have or do or change anything they so desire, with sheer will power. It’s entirely their call; nothing is impossible” (Lazar 511)

Question 5

Protest paradigm

Answer 5

• Visual and written texts
• How images frame collective action
• Protestors typically framed as illegitimate, irrational, emotional in written news media coverage

Question 6

Oka Crisis 1990

Answer 6

• Land dispute Oka, Quebec
• Mohawk First Nation of Kanesatake and Kahnawake
• Proposed expansion of a nine-hole golf course that was first built on Mohawk land in 1961
• Led to a standoff between Mohawk protestors, police and the army- Lasted 78 days