Год выпуска: 2012 Автор: Riaz Hussain,Syed Hammad ur Rahman and Naveed Chaudhry Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 220 ISBN: 9783659287848
Описание
This exploratory study tries to provide an understanding of the discourse of the 21st century peace protests. With a methodology that combines insights from content analysis, discourse analysis and semiotics, the study seeks to describe and interpret the discourse of the peace protests. The 21st century discourse of peace protests emerged as a reaction to the discourse of the ‘Global War on Terror’. The core research question of the book is, "How does the discourse of peace protests deconstruct the discourse of the 'Global War on Terror'?". As the study moves on, it reveals that the peace protests not only show the frustration of the world with the current wars but they also reflect a growing disillusionment in the West with capitalism. In the larger context, the peace protests seem to dovetail with other catalysing forces of change in the form of the Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street movement which are trying to effect ‘redistribution of power’ in the world. The study is useful...
