Discursive Incarceration: Black Fragility in a Divided Public Sphere

The Discursive Construction of Otherness in the Public Sphere

In this paper, I present the data from a study on how the Spanish Parliament has dealt with a “minority” affected by one controversial issue such as same-sex marriage. By analysing mainly the minutes of the sessions in which homosexuality is discussed, or gays and lesbians are mentioned, I examine how these are represented (if they are) through the speeches delivered by politicians. As a conseq...

Public sphere and intellectual discourses in Iran

The public sphere and discursive activities: information literacy as sociopolitical skills

Purpose – To provide some theoretical considerations concerning information literacy so as to contribute to a theoretically informed point of departure for understanding information literacy and to argue that to be an information literate person is to have knowledge about information sources and that searching and using them is determined by an insight into how knowledge is socially organized i...

The Discursive Dilemma and Public

Collective decisions are ubiquitous in complex democratic societies. Elections, referenda, decisions in legislatures, committees, multimember courts, expert panels, and boards of companies or other organizations are all examples. In such decisions, disagreement is equally ubiquitous. People disagree with each other on many levels. They disagree not only on what choices should be made but also o...

Beyond Black Demons & White Devils: AntiBlack Conspiracy Theorizing & the Black Public Sphere