Reinhard Messerschmidt

List of John Benjamins publications for which Reinhard Messerschmidt plays a role.

Article

Messerschmidt, Reinhard 2016 Revealing the governmentality of demographic change in Germany with the manifold discourse-analytical ‘toolbox’ of FoucaultStudies of Discourse and Governmentality: New perspectives and methods, McIlvenny, Paul, Julia Zhukova Klausen and Laura Bang Lindegaard (eds.), pp. 353–386 | Article
German discourses of demographic change are characterised by alarmism. A continuously growing number of publications in the mass media address population aging and shrinking by depicting mostly dystopian future scenarios. Some governmental strategies employ demographic discourse to… read more