https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/glyno96709/jason-glynos

Apoio: Capes PrInt Uerj - projeto Políticas de Currículo e ProPEd/Uerj

Dia 29 de agosto, quinta-feira, das 14h às 18h, no Auditório 111 (11º andar/Uerj)

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Coordenação de Alice Casimiro Lopes/Proped- UERJ

Biography

I teach political theory at the Department of Government, University of Essex, where I am co-director of the Centre for Ideology and Discourse Analysis. Adopting a discourse analytic and psychoanalytic approach to social and political analysis, my research engages broadly with theories of ideology, political economy, and democracy, seeking to delimit a field of investigation I call critical fantasy studies. I am especially interested in the role fantasy can play in helping us understand our affective investment in a wide range of discourses and organizational practices, and to draw out the ideological, political and normative implications of such analyses. The ‘logics approach’ to social and political analysis I have developed with my colleague David Howarth is partly informed by this interest in affect and fantasy, and runs alongside it. A product of sustained engagement with key debates in the philosophy of social science the logics approach operationalizes important insights of the Essex School of Discourse Theory - and poststructuralism more generally - for the conduct of critical empirical research. Grounded in our monograph Logics of Critical Explanation in Social and Political Theory, we argue that this approach helps draw out in a rather forceful way the ideological, political and normative significance of practices. My current areas of interest and investigation include: • Competition as a principle of neoliberal governance; its varieties and counter-hegemonic alternatives – in policy and practice • Valuation practices, including those that incorporate techniques of quantification and monetization • ‘Alternative’ organizations and practices (eg., alternative financial organizations, alternative workplace practices, alternative ways of doing research, alternative forms of democratic practice, alternative community economies, such as time banks) • Practices in which the signifier ‘populism’ appears • Practices and justifications of remuneration • Practices of initiation, transition and experimentation; conditions of transformation • Creative ways of developing and combining a range of research strategies and methodologies, drawing on discourse analysis, psychoanalysis, psycho-social studies, ethnography, participatory-action research, and corpus linguistics.