Geoff Boucher – Talking Discourse – New Scholarly Chapter

Kudos to staff member Geoff Boucher, who has an essay in a new edited collection, Discourse, Culture and Organization: Inquiries into Relational Structures of Power (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).

Edited by German sociologist Tomas Marttila, the collection examines how the critique of power makes it possible to understand how organisations work. The book brings together leading international researchers from across the social sciences to examine the theoretical premises, methodological options and critical potentials of the Essex School of discourse analysis, founded on the work of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe.

Daniel Wrana, at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (Germany), offers this praise for the book: ‘A highly original contribution to the field of discourse analysis and an important milestone for the presentation and systematization of the Essex School, with contributions from an outstanding range of scholars from different countries and disciplines.’