The Discourse of Politics in Action

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"Ist of Figures, Tables and Photographs x Preface xi 1 'Doing Politics' 1 1 Public politics: the 'frontstage' 1 1.1 Performing politics 1 1.2 Communicating politics 5 2 Staging politics: integrating performance, habitus, communities of practice, and the discursive construction of professional identities 7 3 Looking behind the scenes: the 'backstage' 14 4 Politics/politicians and the media 17 4.1 Media and crisis: broadcasting 'snapshots' 17 4.2 Disenchantment with politics: fictionalization of everyday politics in the media 19 5 Relevant dimensions for the study of everyday politics 23 2 The (Ir)rationality of Politics 28 1 The many - presupposed - meanings of 'doing politics' 29 2 Discourse, politics and power 32 2.1 Inter/trans/multidisciplinarity and 'relevance' 32 2.2 Power and critique 34 2.3 Discourse, text and context: the Discourse-Historical Approach in CDA 38 3 Power, knowledge and presuppositions 45 4 Orders and disorders: analysing organizational everyday routines 49 3 'Politics as Usual' on the 'European Stage': Constructing and Performing 'European Identities' 57 1 Introduction: Quo vadis, Europe? 57 2 Multiple identities in the European Parliament 62 2.1 The Europea…