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Mimicry of Marginality. On Masking Hegemonic Positions Through Discourse

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Ingo H. Warnke, Silvia Bonacchi & Charlotta Seiler Brylla

2024

In recent decades, the history of social movements has been characterized by discursive struggles for the attention to (intentionally) overlooked social positions of subjects and their actual or imagined membership in groups marginalized by and in mainstream discourses.

Warnke, Ingo H., Bonacchi, Silvia & Seiler Brylla, Charlotta. 2024. Mimicry of Marginality. On Masking Hegemonic Positions Through Discourse. Zeitschrift für Diskursforschung 2023 (2). 129–142.

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DOI: 10.3262/ZFD2302129

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