Identity and Discourse in Securitisation Theory

Human Rights and Foreign Policy Discourse in Today's Russia: Romantic Realism and Securitisation of Identity

Edward Said and Michel Foucault: Representation of the Notion of Discourse in Colonial Discourse Theory

Edward Said is regarded as the originator of colonial discourse theory. He deploys Michel Foucault’s notion of discourse to accomplish his project in Orientalism and emphasizes Foucault’s notion of discourse and its relation to power, rendering discourse a carceral system. Although Said explicitly expresses the similarity between Orientalism and Foucault’s discourse theory, it seems he...

Study of hope discourse in adolescents with identity achievement

The purpose of this study was to identify the components of hope discourse in adolescents with identity achievement after passing through the adolescent crisis. The present research has been conducted with a qualitative approach and the descriptive phenomenology of data collection. The statistical population included accessible adolescents who wished to participate in this study, also sampling ...

Social Identity Theory in Toni Morrison’s Sula

The concept of identity and its formation is one of the most basic notions in the field of social psychology. Many psychologist and sociologists have presented their theories based on this concept and the psychosocial progress of its formation in social contexts. Henry Tajfel, a prominent social psychologist, in his Social Identity Theory has divided an individual’s identity into two parts: “pe...

Securitisation and Financial Stability*

A widespread opinion before the credit crisis of 2007/8 was that securitisation enhances financial stability by dispersing credit risk. After the credit crisis, securitisation was blamed for allowing the hot potato of bad loans to be passed to unsuspecting investors. Both views miss the endogeneity of credit supply. Securitisation enables credit expansion through higher leverage of the financia...