About the Workshop
Introducing New Forms of Discourse Analysis
How language, media, and power shape the world we live in
Why do some crises become headlines while others remain invisible? How do media, politics, and social platforms shape the way we see insecurity, conflict, identity, or inequality? And how can we critically understand these narratives from perspectives beyond Europe and the Global North?
This workshop explores the new forms and trends in discourse analysis – enriched by intersectional and colonial perspectives that help us better understand the complex realities we are experiencing today. Rather than seeing disruption, crisis, or precarity as simply “things that happen,” the workshop investigates how these realities are constructed, circulated, and challenged through discourse.
Drawing on Koselleck's historical temporalities and Gadamerian hermeneutics, the workshop updates Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) from and for the Global South, articulating it with the tradition of Jäger & Jäger (Duisburg school) and Mbembe's necropolitics. Disruption – understood as a reconfiguration of existing discursive regimes – and the figurations of the precarious – in the sense of the RTG Figurations of the Precarious in the Global South (Tübingen) – constitute the two analytical axes of the encounter. An intersectional and decolonial perspective runs transversally through both axes, including methodological contributions from Latin American CDA developed over the past decade.
