The Morphology of the Labour Party's One Nation Narrative

Story, Plot and Authorship

Bibliographic Data

ID10358366
AuthorsJohn Gaffney (0000-0002-4667-4241, Professor of Politics at Aston University Co‐director of the Aston Centre for Europe, corresponding author), Amarjit Lahel (Research Fellow in Politics and International Relations at Aston University)
Year2013
Volume84
Issue3
Pages330-341
Publication date2013-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Political Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0032-3179 • E-ISSN: 1467-923X
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-923x.2013.12027.x
OpenAlexW2087463941
LanguageEN
Citations received7

By applying narrative theory to the party political texts emerging within the UK Labour Party after 2010, which make up the corpus of One Nation discourse, we can grasp the underlying significance of this ideational revision of Labour Party and leftist thought. Through an identification and analysis of the sequence of texts and their constitution as a “story” that interpolates an underlying “plot,” we can see how a revision of Labour's “tale” offers to leadership a new party discourse appropriate to it, mediating—if not reconciling—the problematic duality of narrative authorship by both party and leader

Art · Constitution · Identification (biology · Literature · Narrative · Plot (graphics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Social and Cultural Dynamics

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