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The Discursive-Material Knot - Cyprus in Conflict and Community Media Participation (Paperback, New edition)
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The theoretical framework of the discursive-material knot consists
out of a non-hierarchical ontology of the interactions of the
discursive and the material, articulating the assemblages that are
driven by this ontological setting as restless and contingent,
sometimes incessantly changing shapes and sometimes being deeply
sedimented. This book acknowledges the importance of discourse
studies, in having produced a better understanding of the
socio-political role of frameworks of intelligibility, and of
materialism theory in highlighting the importance of the agentic
role of materials. Still, the combination of the discursive and the
material requires our attention in a much more fundamental way;
that is where this book's first platform aims to provide a
contribution. These ontological-theoretical reflections are not
produced in a void, but they are put to work in this book, first in
platform two, which consists of a discursive-material re-reading of
three theoretical fields, dealing with practices that are all
highly relevant in contemporary democracies: participation,
community media and conflict (transformation). Finally, in the
third platform, this book turns its attention to a particular
social reality, analyzing the logic of the discursive-material knot
in the particular context of the Cyprus Problem. This case study
fills a gap by bringing community media and conflict transformation
together, through the analysis of the role of the Cyprus Community
Media Centre (CCMC), and its webradio MYCYradio, in contributing to
the transformation of antagonism into agonism. Deploying a
discursive-material analysis to study the participation and
agonization (and their articulation) in CCMC/MYCYradio shows the
complexity and richness of conflict transformation processes, in
combination with the importance of organizations such as
CCMC/MYCYradio for the betterment of society. The author's website
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