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Ryan O'Connor

Ryan O’Connor is Senior Lecturer in Security Studies at Birmingham City University.

Conflict and Its Discursive Representations: Sustaining Support for War

Conflict and Its Discursive Representations: Sustaining Support for War

This project seeks to demonstrate how multiple sites of discursive production (political elite, media, and popular culture) interact to construct truths about a conflict that condition political possibility. Through breaking down the interaction between multiple sites of production within moments of discursive stability and by tracing major themes across multiple sites of discursive production this work will illuminate the processes by which the ‘truth’ for a conflict is produced, sustained, and challenged.

Conflict and Its Discursive Representations: Sustaining Support for War

Conflict and Its Discursive Representations: Sustaining Support for War

This project seeks to demonstrate how multiple sites of discursive production (political elite, media, and popular culture) interact to construct truths about a conflict that condition political possibility. Through breaking down the interaction between multiple sites of production within moments of discursive stability and by tracing major themes across multiple sites of discursive production this work will illuminate the processes by which the ‘truth’ for a conflict is produced, sustained, and challenged.