'Exceptional', 'normal' or a 'myth'? The discursive construction of the 'crisis' by Greek employees
This article aims to explore the construction of the concept of the 'crisis' by Greek employees, when they talk about paid work. In order to do so, 22 interviews with employees aged 23- 43 were analysed, deploying the analytic tool of 'positioning', informed by poststructuralist...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2016 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB |
| Idioma: | catalán |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ddd.uab.cat:165323 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/165323 https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1177/0957926516651364 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | Crisis Critical discourse analysis Greece Positioning Work |
| Resumo: | This article aims to explore the construction of the concept of the 'crisis' by Greek employees, when they talk about paid work. In order to do so, 22 interviews with employees aged 23- 43 were analysed, deploying the analytic tool of 'positioning', informed by poststructuralist assumptions about discourse and the subject. This perspective seeks to illuminate how the hegemonic discourses both on the 'crisis' and waged labour persist and are being legitimated through peoples' mundane practices and speech, aspiring to trace alternative narratives that challenge them. According to our analysis, the 'crisis' was discursively formulated in three different, and at a first glance even contradictory, ways: as a 'state of exception', as a 'normal condition' and as a 'myth', serving each time a different function regarding the constitution of the self and the social. |
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