To lead without governing in the knowledge society: The enlightened despotism in European techno-corporative discourse
- Authors
- Maniglio, Francesco
- Format
- Article
- Status
- publishedVersion
- Description
Over the last few decades, the process of governing in the European Union (EU) has come to mean a whole series of activities conducted by social, political, and administrative actors, which guide, direct, control, and administrate society. The relationship between these actors in the governmental process is not hierarchical, but polycentric and mutually dependent. Therefore, the techno-corporatism alliance is formed by an epistemic community along with the industrial and financial lobbies. It organizes society around its own projection of a differential unit, thereby affirming its position of leadership and power ? a differential unit which, in an ideologically broader definition, expresses itself and inevitably takes place throughout and within this language. First, this implies thinking of the techno-corporative discourse not in its apparent ethereal nature, but as a social practice of the legitimation of a mediated political direction that has intervened in the conception, construction, and approval of public policies over these last few decades. Even though this discourse contributes to the delineation of a certain social form, this does not suggest that it cannot contrast with it, or even exceed it because this form itself is contradictory. Second, the longitudinal analysis (2000?2010) of the techno-corporative discourse allows us to relate and articulate different discourses (critical, subordinated, and dissident discourses) which have affected the programs and projects of the European governance in the direction of society, thereby constructing a hegemonic vision in order to obtain general consent.
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http://das.sagepub.com/content/27/1/38.abstract
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Language
- eng
- Topic
- CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
EUROPEAN GOVERNANCE
HEGEMONIC DISCOURSE
IDEOLOGY
- Repository
- Repositorio SENESCYT
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- openAccess