Oppositional Discourses and Democracies (Hardcover)

Introduction Michael Huspek Section 1: The Limits of Imperfect Democracies and How They Are Contested 1. State Ideology and Oppositional Discourses: Conceptual and Methodological IssuesPeter Jones and Chik Collins 2. Ideology, Discourse and Moral Economy: Consulting the People of North ManchesterColin Barker 3. Where State Power and Opposition Collide: Discourses of Labor Protest in a New Market EconomyCharles Woolfson Section 2: State Responses to Oppositional Discourses and Democratization from Below 4.Challenging New Laws with Old Values: Indigenous Resistance to State "Enforcement" of Children’s Rights in GhanaJanice Windborne 5. State Power and the Reconstitution of Parental Rights in U.S. Child Custody Mediation Lynn Comerford 6. Weaving and Unweaving the Rights of Public Woman: The Case of Telephone Operators at the Turn of the Twentieth CenturyJ.S. Sutton Section 3: Sustained Forces of Democratization and the Effectiveness of Oppositional Discourses 7. Vigilance and Solidarity in the Rhetoric of the Black Press: The Tulsa Star, Olga Idriss Davis 8. "From the Standpoint of the White Man’s World:" The Black Press and Contemporary White Media Scholarship Michael Huspek 9.Exposing the Hypocrisies of State Power: The African-American Press and the HolocaustFelecia G. Jones Ross and Sakile Kai Camara Section 4: Normative Contours of State and Oppositional Discourses 10. The Philosophical Foundations of the Discourse SocietyDarryl Gunson 11.Habermas and Oppositional Public Spheres: A Stereoscopic Analysis of Competing DiscoursesMichael Huspek 12. The Rational Bases of Transgressive RhetoricMichael Huspek