Oppositional discourses and democracies [ - Huspek, Michael , 1950- (New York : Routledg, 2010)
1. Introduction -- 2. State ideology and oppositional discourses : conceptual and methodological issues -- 3. Ideology, discourse, and moral economy : consulting the people of North Manchester -- 4. Where state power and opposition collide : discourses of labor protest in a new market economy --5. Challenging new laws with old values : indigenous resistance to state "enforcement" of children's rights in Ghana -- 6. State power and the reconstitution of parental rights in U.S. child custody mediation -- 7. Weaving and unweaving the rights of public woman : the case of telephone operators at the turn of the twentieth century -- 8. Vigilance and solidarity in the rhetoric of the black press : the Tulsa Star -- 9. "From the standpoint of the white man's world" : the black press and contemporary white media scholarship -- 10. Exposing the hypocrisies of state power : the African-American press and the Holocaust -- 11. The philosophical foundations of the discourse society -- 12. Habermas and oppositional public spheres : a stereoscopic analysis of competing discourses -- 13. The rational bases of transgressive rhetoric
This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2009
Title from PDF title page (viewed Oct 2, 2009)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Keywords: Communication -- Political aspects; Opposition (Political science)