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The Dislocation of the Empty Signifier Freedom as a Tool in Global Political Struggles A Case Study on RT's Mini-Series How to Watch the News

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F22%3A10425898" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/22:10425898 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=Ny.r8N6wUP" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=Ny.r8N6wUP</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13183222.2021.1889833" target="_blank" >10.1080/13183222.2021.1889833</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    The Dislocation of the Empty Signifier Freedom as a Tool in Global Political Struggles A Case Study on RT's Mini-Series How to Watch the News

  • Original language description

    Freedom is approached in this article as an empty signifier and as an object of discursive struggle, from a discourse-theoretical perspective. The hegemonic centrality of freedom in Western discourse and identity construction is acknowledged, but at the same time the article argues that hegemony is never total and all-encompassing. In other words, hegemonic constructions are seen as always particular, with their universal claims displaying cracks and gaps. Especially when different discursive communities (e.g. the West and Russia) engage in global discursive struggles, these cracks become visible through dislocatory strategies. The second part of the article then addresses a case study about how this discursive struggle is organised in practice, focussing on the RT mini-series How to Watch the News, which prominently features Slavoj Zizek. The discourse-theoretical analysis demonstrates how the mini-series deconstructs the Western articulation of freedom, in three ways, namely by showing the failures of Western liberal democracies, and the divided nature of Western societies, and by critiquing the individualistic articulation of freedom. The article concludes by pointing to the ambiguities related to the centrality of freedom, the role of RT and the role of Zizek as public intellectual.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    50802 - Media and socio-cultural communication

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Others

  • Publication year

    2022

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    Javnost

  • ISSN

    1318-3222

  • e-ISSN

    1854-8377

  • Volume of the periodical

    29

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    1

  • Country of publishing house

    SI - SLOVENIA

  • Number of pages

    16

  • Pages from-to

    66-81

  • UT code for WoS article

    000630677200001

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database

    2-s2.0-85102930641