New Labour and the Ideological Fantasy of the Good Citizen
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6110508 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Morrison (0000-0001-8380-3615, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 273-278 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Psychoanalysis Culture & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1088-0763 • E-ISSN: 1543-3390 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/psy.2003.0040 |
| OpenAlex | W1983987220 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 1 |
This paper will seek to demonstrate how New Labour's incorporation of a particular substantive notion of citizenship, within their public discourse, has been a factor in sustaining their electoral success, by gaining popular support and legitimacy, due to their particular ideological discursive construction of the bad citizen. It is argued this discursive construction manipulates, within a significant part of the electorate, a pre-ideological enjoyment that is structured in fantasy
Aesthetics · Art · Citizenship · Fantasy · Ideology · Legitimacy · Literature · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US
| Citations per year | 0.38 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2010 - 2025 (16) |
| Highly cited | No |