Contested Discourse
Exploration of Two Discourses in Youth Work Training
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2366403 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anthony Rosie (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 330-353 |
| Publication date | 1994-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0891-2416 • E-ISSN: 1552-5414 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/089124194023003004 |
| OpenAlex | W2079959454 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 29 |
A training program for youths and community workers in the United Kingdom provides the setting for an analysis of two contrasting discourses. The account draws on the work of Bataille and Lyotard to explore the relationship between discourse and the multiple readings of an event that an ethnographer might make. Two discourses are identified within a corpus of ethnographic data. A contest discourse that provides students with a means of redefining the conditions they seek in the training setting acts as a challenge to a discourse of managerialism. The latter provides a bureaucratic framework for course organization and student assessment. The article examines two key events to illustrate the emergence of the two discourses and to explore the interrelationships between them. Specific types of field note data are used to explore the operation of the discourses. In the final section, the account explores ways by which an ethnographer can avoid producing a unitary narrative from a single point of view that denies the multiplicity of meanings within a setting
Bureaucracy · Civil discourse · CONTEST · Discourse analysis · Epistemology · Ethnography · Field (mathematics · Linguistics · Managerialism · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · Unitary state · Adult and Continuing Education Topics · Anthropology · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Law
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Langage et pouvoir symbolique
Writing and Difference
Critical Discourse Analysis and the Marketization of Public Discourse
The Ethnographic Imagination
Anthropology as Cultural Critique
Membership Roles in Field Research
The condition of postmodernity
The Postmodern Condition
Modernity versus Postmodernity
The Condition of Postmodernity
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women
The Predicament of Culture
The End of Sociological Theory
Ten Lies of Ethnography
Critical Anthropology Twenty Years Later
| Citations per year | 0.03 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1996 - 1996 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |