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Focusing on contexts of accelerated economic and political reform, this volume critically examines the role of slogans in the contemporary projects of populist mobilization, neoliberal governance, and civic subversion. Bringing together a collection of ethnographic studies from Greece, Slovakia, Poland, Abu Dhabi, Peru, and China, the contributors analyze the way in which slogans both convey and contest the values and norms that lie at the core of hegemonic political economic projects and ideologies.
Slogans: Subjection, Subversion, and the Politics of Neoliberalism
European Journal of Communication, 2019
Make America Great' has become synonymous with a very distinct perspective on politics, society, America and politicians. It encapsulates a world view associated with US President Donald Trump, which includes controversial perspectives on race, immigration, the environment, politicians and even knowledge. It is slogans like this that encapsulate a time, place and perspective in a given society. And it is here where this edited collection starts. Slogans can be defined as a 'formula with effect' (Navarro Dominguez, 2005: 270). This very pragmatic view of slogans, used in this collection, sees them as performative discourse. Contributions to this collection are concerned with how words such as 'Make America Great again' are a part of politics and society at a time when neoliberalism is a dominant global discourse. This collection is a novel anthropological insight into a number of societies and their politics through the prism of their production and use of slogans to both promote and/ or subvert neoliberalism. This can be exemplified by Trump's slogan quoted above, which was formulated to encourage certain voter behaviours. But it was also patented by Trump, thus generating cash while being used in popular culture to parody Trump and his policies. Six ethnographic case studies from around the globe make up this volume. They come from Slovakia, Poland, Peru, Abu Dhabi, and two separate regions from the People's Republic of China: Macau and Shenzhen. Each contributor examines the production and use of political slogans 'seeking to throw light on how words are employed to persuade and affect publics in an age of global capitalism' (p. 1). In other words, the collection considers 'how the slogan as a particular cultural form operates in settings where political performance is shaped by the neoliberal logic of governance' (p. 2). Case studies reveal and illustrate a number of sociological and political issues relevant for anyone interested in the nations examined. They are also useful for students and academics who study the use of language, politics and anthropology. Chapters highlight 862129E JC0010.
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Philology (38), 2020
Despite their efficiency and their practically mandatory use in political campaigns, slogans are a largely under-researched area of political discourse. This paper focuses on political slogans and investigates them from a cognitive perspective. It aims to provide a description of the conceptual structure underlying political slogans, which could also serve as a stepping stone for further investigations of their 'witty', 'catchy', and 'quotable' character. The paper demonstrates that the conceptual elements in the scenario prototypically employed in political slogans are the ones of leader, people being led, a social issue/ a solution to a social issue/ a goal, time, and space. The analysis demonstrates how these scenario elements function prototypically. This hypothesized conceptual structure is tested against a dataset specifically compiled for the present purposes. The dataset includes 25 slogans used within UK and USA political contexts over the last 70 years. The analysis conducted is qualitative.
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