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A critical interrogation of the public and political discourses which shape the management and lived experience of migration. The collection brings together essays from established and rising academics in the field of migration studies to address the relationship between discourse and migration in Europe, the Americas and the Middle East.

Why should we be worried about neoliberalism if we are not able to fully appreciate its deleterious effects? How can we fully appreciate its intricacies and power without attending to and seeking to potentially reconcile the various critical theorizations of how it actually operates? The Discourse of Neoliberalism offers a critical political economy-meets-poststructuralist perspective on the relationship between neoliberalism and power. By advancing a geographical approach to understanding the discursive formations and material consequences of neoliberalism, the book exposes how processes of neoliberalization are shot through with violence. It argues that reading neoliberalism as a discourse better equips us to understand the power of this variegated economic formation as an expansive process of social-spatial transformation that is intimately bound up with the production of poverty, inequality, and violence across the globe. It illuminates the vital and ongoing power of neoliberalism in order to open up a critical space for thinking through how life beyond neoliberalism might be achieved.

This is the first book to apply discourse analysis to the nation state of Kazakhstan. It offers an original and innovative contribution to the field of International Relations, Critical Security Studies, and Central Asian Studies, providing a unique perspective on the construction of Kazakhstani Identity in relation to Russia.

Poor News examines the way discourses of poverty are articulated in the news media by incorporating specific narratives and definers that bring about certain ideological worldviews.

This monograph examines the ways in which discourses on the public sector were articulated in the print media during the 2011 financial crisis in the Irish, UK and European news media.

This book reveals the dynamics of discretionary power in welfare institutions and evidences the effect that this power has on the operation of the welfare state.

Hall identifies the critical conjuncture between Brexit and Facebook that enabled transnational right-wing populism to engage a new audience. White and Right victimhood motivated individuals to use Facebook as a means of harnessing a sense of political control around Brexit.