The Academic Dispositif: Towards a Context-Centred Discourse Analysis

Hamann, Julian; Maeße, Jens; Scholz, Ronny; Angermüller, Johannes

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-97370-8_3

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“…I also analyzed books and documents published by the JPD or its intellectuals. I reviewed these data in chronological order using the discourse analysis method (Hamann et al, 2019; Jäger, 2001).…”

Section: Theoretical Background and Methodologymentioning

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Analyzing the Justice and Development Party’s changing discourse on the headscarf issue as the constitutive part of its drift toward authoritarian politics in Turkey

Yarar

2023

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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Despite its long history since the late Ottoman period in Turkey, this article focuses on the headscarf issue within a particular period; since 2002, when the Justice and Development Party has been in power. Women’s issues have always occupied a large space in the Justice and Development Party’s project(s), which articulate diverse narrative lines ranging from conservatism to liberalism. The article aims to unravel this diverse insight into the Justice and Development Party’s politics within the context of its recent political drift toward authoritarianism while particularly focusing on its headscarf discourses. It argues that the Justice and Development Party’s political drift toward authoritarianism resulted in the replacement of the earlier politics of consensus/‘non-defiance’, which refers to a conservatism that denies radicalism and avoids emphasizing controversial issues like the headscarf, with the politics of dissensus/defiance that reveal social tensions and political conflicts such as those between Islamic and secular sectors, through revitalizing the old debate on the headscarf issue. In this sense, the lifting of the headscarf bans in public institutions in 2008 can be read as a symptom, not of the Justice and Development Party’s earlier liberal stand, but of the beginning of its shift toward authoritarianism based on its religious-nationalist project, which made use of this liberal right of pious women in enhancing the gaps between oppositional groups and in consolidating its social basis. This earlier attempt has been followed by continuous use of the headscarf as a symbol drawing a border between ‘us’ and ‘them’ and signifying outrages and moral crisis for which the Justice and Development Party blamed the oppositional groups. Within this context, the article questions the ways in which the headscarf as a political symbol along with other conservative policies targeting female bodies and sexualities took a part in the constitution and consolidation of the Justice and Development Party’s radical right alliance and its authoritarian regime.

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Analyzing the Justice and Development Party’s changing discourse on the headscarf issue as the constitutive part of its drift toward authoritarian politics in Turkey

Yarar

2023

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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“…The study presented in this paper follows the experimental spirit of Jäger and Maier's invitation to develop our analytical strategy, in this case, to study data production. Here, we combine methodological elements discussed by several authors in terms of the operationalization of power, knowledge, and discourse [8,9,47,48,60], apply them to our fieldwork on data production through platforms and at a BPO, and follow the examples provided by previous research that has successfully applied variations of dispositif analysis [9,31,51,85,86]. We followed the four steps outlined by Caborn mentioned above and based our analysis on the three-dimensional framework described by Jäger and Maier [39] as follows:…”

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The Data-Production Dispositif

Miceli¹,

Posada²

2022

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Machine learning (ML) depends on data to train and verify models. Very often, organizations outsource processes related to data work (i.e., generating and annotating data and evaluating outputs) through business process outsourcing (BPO) companies and crowdsourcing platforms. This paper investigates outsourced ML data work in Latin America by studying three platforms in Venezuela and a BPO in Argentina. We lean on the Foucauldian notion of dispositif to define the data-production dispositif as an ensemble of discourses, actions, and objects strategically disposed to (re)produce power/knowledge relations in data and labor. Our dispositif analysis comprises the examination of 210 data work instruction documents, 55 interviews with data workers, managers, and requesters, and participant observation. Our findings show that discourses encoded in instructions reproduce and normalize the worldviews of requesters. Precarious working conditions and economic dependency alienate workers, making them obedient to instructions. Furthermore, discourses and social contexts materialize in artifacts, such as interfaces and performance metrics, limiting workers' agency and normalizing specific ways of interpreting data. We conclude by stressing the importance of counteracting the data-production dispositif by fighting alienation and precarization, and empowering data workers to become assets in the quest for high-quality data.

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Das Dispositif digitalisierter Expertise. Über den Einfluss der digitalen Transformation auf den Diskurs von Wirtschaftsexperten am Fallbeispiel „oekonomenstimme.org“

Maeße¹,

Krasni

2022

Die Digitale Transformation Der Medien

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The Academic Dispositif: Towards a Context-Centred Discourse Analysis

Cited by 15 publications

References 28 publications

Analyzing the Justice and Development Party’s changing discourse on the headscarf issue as the constitutive part of its drift toward authoritarian politics in Turkey

Analyzing the Justice and Development Party’s changing discourse on the headscarf issue as the constitutive part of its drift toward authoritarian politics in Turkey

The Data-Production Dispositif

Das Dispositif digitalisierter Expertise. Über den Einfluss der digitalen Transformation auf den Diskurs von Wirtschaftsexperten am Fallbeispiel „oekonomenstimme.org“

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