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Bigger cages, longer signifying chains – ideology as structural limitation and discursive practice

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Beetz, Johannes (2021) Bigger cages, longer signifying chains – ideology as structural limitation and discursive practice. Journal of Multicultural Discourses, 16 (2). pp. 140-154. doi:10.1080/17447143.2021.1895179 ISSN 1747-6615.

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Abstract

The aim of this paper is to present a materialist approach to the concept of ideology which delineates the latter as discursive practice and structural limitation. The discursive practices of ideology are not reducible to sets of immaterial distorted ideas or simply false consciousness. While ideology misrepresents and naturalises the existing social reality, its representations are neither true nor false. As a material phenomenon that exists in semiotic practices, ideology is fundamentally discursive and constitutes subjects by interpellating individuals and providing subject positions from which the imaginary relations to real social relations can be practically and meaningfully represented. Rather than reflecting or expressing their conditions of production, ideological practices actively produce, reproduce, and transform the very material conditions they arise in. In a first step, the article presents and discusses different Marxian notions of ideology, namely ideology as false consciousness, as structural limitation, and as commodity fetishism. In a next step, aspects of a materialist theory of ideology, which describes the latter as a set of material discursive practices will be outlined. The contribution will propose nine fundamental characteristics of ideology developed throughout the paper.

Item Type: Journal Article
Divisions: Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics
SWORD Depositor: Library Publications Router
Journal or Publication Title: Journal of Multicultural Discourses
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
ISSN: 1747-6615
Official Date: 2021
Dates:
DateEvent
2021Published
28 March 2021Available
19 February 2021Accepted
Volume: 16
Number: 2
Page Range: pp. 140-154
DOI: 10.1080/17447143.2021.1895179
Status: Peer Reviewed
Publication Status: Published
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