A notable feature of the participatory communication repertoire developed by the Occupy movement is known as the “Human Microphone” or “People’s Mic”, reminiscent of the call-and-response format of action. A collection was made of more than 160 online amateur videos recorded at an Occupy protest… read more
The interactional and categorial practices of a prefigurative protest demonstration
are examined using video recordings that document a theatrical protest
event called “United Nathans weapons inspectors” in February 2003. The chapter
undertakes an analytics of protest to uncover how fields of… read more
In this comprehensive overview we familiarise readers with Michel Foucault’s
publications that are relevant both to discourse studies and to studies of governmentality.
We review the narrow impact that Foucault’s ideas have had on
discourse studies and summarise the scant literature on discourse… read more