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This paper addresses the intersectionality theme in mathematics education to clarify the existing epistemic racism. Through the presentation of excerpts from Brazilian high school mathematics textbooks, more specifically the pages that deal with the history of mathematics, we argued that, in these analyzed textbooks, mathematics is European, male and white, because the narrative constructed by the creators of these books reproduces the Eurocentric logic of mathematical knowledge, erasing other histories of mathematics and creating a very specific narrative about the construction of human knowledge. The analyses were intersectional as a fundamental concept, as multiple aspects, such as gender, ethnicity, race, and nationality, were taken into consideration. The discourse analysis was the analytical tool that made it possible to look at the math textbooks and describe how the materialization of discourses about teaching and learning occurs, producing a history of mathematics teaching in our time; of what is idealized and what is invisibilized. The 24 volumes of the eight collections approved in PNLD 2018 were analyzed. Using the Atlas TI software, six characteristics were investigated: (i) the content addressed; (ii) the continent of origin of that character; (iii) whether it was a quote in text form or whether, in addition to the text (character's name), there was also a figure or photo; (iv) gender; (v) race; (vi) name. We found 554 references to scientists and mathematicians, showing that, in the analyzed books, mathematics is constructed by white and European-origin men. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we present research into narratives on immigrants and immigration, to identify cases of hate speech on the part of political parties against immigrants on Twitter during the 2019 and 2021 electoral campaigns in the Community of Madrid. Using Critical Discourse Analysis, the results confirm the exponential increase by all parties in discussion on the issue of immigration and that the political agenda and public discourse is increasingly framed by hate speech towards unaccompanied minors and undocumented migrants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research paper presents a queer feminist analysis of gendered discourses in South Africa's (SA) (2020-2025) National Action Plan (NAP) on Women, Peace, and Security (WPS). It builds on an extensive field of WPS scholarship by using the case study of SA's NAP to illustrate how policy can be used to harness critical gendered language and create possibilities for radical (re)imaginings of gendered peace. While a considerable knowledge base that explores the gendered discourses of NAPs on WPS already exists, a key gap in the literature --that has only more recently begun to be explored with greater rigor-- is the bridging of queer and feminist theories to further push the boundaries of discursive policy analysis. Against this backdrop, feminist critical discourse analysis (CDA) was applied to the NAP case study to surface dominant and counter-discourses on gender and their possible inclusionary/exclusionary effects. Key findings centre the potential value of policy discourses which, in their fragmentation, ruptures, continuities and ambivalences, can facilitate opportunities for queer peace at the instrumental level and beyond. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

How should teachers of international relations in settler-colonial states engage with First Nations' sovereignty claims? While a growing body of recent scholarship explores how teaching might acknowledge and move beyond the discipline's racist and colonial origins, less research investigates how pedagogy might rectify inattention to Indigenous sovereignty. This paper reports on a class activity that sought to highlight how the discipline's foundational assumptions can naturalize Indigenous dispossession. In the class, students were asked to conduct discourse analysis of debates surrounding the "Uluru Statement from the Heart," and to consider practices of Indigenous transnationalism. Although students generally succeeded in identifying how discursive practices consolidate the authority of the settler-colonial state, class discussion tended to reproduce the state's justificatory narratives and to classify First Nations' claims as akin to those of any other ethnic minority. At a time when many universities are seeking to embed more Indigenous content within curriculum, we reflect on how the activity revealed epistemic colonialism's operation within educational settings. We argue that in addition to introducing Indigenous perspectives and knowledges, it is valuable for teaching in settler-colonial states to focus critical attention onto non-Indigenous practices that reproduce systemic injustice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper has carried out the analysis of a Guidelines Proposal for Intervention with Women Victims of Gender Based Violence promoted by the Government Delegation of Spain for Gender Based Violence and aimed at professionals. From a Critical Discourse Analysis, the work has as objective to visualize the revictimizing framework from which the intervention against gender based violence is addressed. It also aims to evidence a lack of rigour extended to key processes that constitute what should be a profesional care and that inevitably impacts on the sensitive people who may need such care. Consequently, it can be seen the simplistic and reductionist conception that underlies the Social Intervention, and that devalues both the latter and its professionals (women mostly). Understanding this document as an institutional discursive production, it serves as an example of the current state of the issue. This paper points out the neccesity to improve the Intervention against Gender Based Violence, and also some of those invisible mechanisms that sustain the structural and systemic character of inequality, such as the individualization of the social issues or the perspective of scientific-professional devaluation of Social Intervention and, with that, of the involved disciplines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyses the implementation of the economic districts in the south of the city of Buenos Aires. From a qualitative approach, it studies the different components of public intervention aimed to create the "business environment", including tax benefits, investments in infrastructure, transportation, urban space and equipment; and the discursive framework put into play to transform the images and senses related to these areas of the city. The paper proposes a methodological crossover to take into account the specific forms that public action assumes in the public-private articulation. In this way, it allows to give content to more abstract theoretical categories, such as urban entrepreneurialism and existing neoliberalism, and at the same time to reflect on urban governance processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Relationship standards are beliefs about what makes a good romantic relationship. To date, no research on relationship standards in same‐sex relationships has been conducted. This paper describes development of the Rainbow Couples Relationship Standards Scale (Rainbow CRSS). In common with measures of relationship standards developed with heterosexuals, the Rainbow CRSS assesses the importance people attach to Couple Bond standards (expression of love, caring, intimacy), Family Responsibility standards (extended family relations, maintenance of face and harmony), Religion, and Relationship Effort standards. The Rainbow CRSS also assesses three standards hypothesized to be of particular importance to same‐sex couples: Relationship Outness (public disclosure of the relationship), Sexual Openness (acceptance of open sexual relationship), and Dyadic Coping with Homophobic discrimination. Participants were 414 same‐sex attracted men and women who completed the Rainbow CRSS online, plus some validation scales. The Rainbow CRSS showed a coherent two‐level factor structure that was similar to that in heterosexual couples for the Couple Bond and Family Responsibility Scales. Same‐sex attracted people's standards were similar for men and women, and for singles versus those in a relationship. Same‐sex attracted people's standards were very similar in endorsement of Couple Bond, Family Responsibility, Religion, and Relationship Effort standards to those of heterosexuals. The Relationship Outness and Dyadic Coping with Homophobia scales assessed potentially important standards that reflect some distinctive challenges for same‐sex couple relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Populism has become a defining feature of European and world politics. During the last decade, major drastic changes in the political landscape have occurred, with France appearing as a singular example: none of the two candidates who made it to the second round of the presidential elections were from the traditionally dominant center-left and center-right parties. This paper analyzes the presence of populism in the political narratives by the main political contenders in the French presidential elections held in 2017. It does so through a discourse analysis of some of their most widely seen political speeches around the campaign, providing an overview of the different framing techniques used by each candidate and their degree and type of populism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is situated in an emerging body on Brazilian development cooperation, looking at the specific case of cooperation concerning agricultural development in Africa. The analysis highlights the discursive side of Brazilian cooperation, where competing narratives about models and purposes construct different versions of reality for reasons related to the political character of cooperation. Discourse is hence an expression of the political. This paper frames Brazil's agricultural cooperation as a domain of priests, technicians and traders, driven, respectively, by doctrinal, technical fixing and business rationales. This provides an initial frame of reference to distil actors' narratives about Brazilian cooperation programmes. The paper focuses on two cooperation programmes in Mozambique: ProSAVANA and More Food International. The key for understanding competing narratives on these programmes and how they intermingle and change over time can be found in Brazil's domestic sphere. The two programmes have been interpreted as an expression of contradictions in Brazil's agriculture and particularly its dualistic character, typically framed as family farming versus agribusiness. Through the lenses of discourse analysis, this paper offers a critical reading of the interplay between priests, technicians and traders, as shaped by different interests and points of view in cooperation relations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: This paper argues the role of Discourse Analysis - DA (Michel Pêcheux, Eni Orlandi) as a theoretical-methodological contribution to the evaluation of health campaigns. Objectives: It shows how DA can be applied to identify and understand discourses of resistance to health promotion campaigns. Methodology: It analyses the HIV prevention campaign of the Brazilian Ministry of Health designed for the carnival of 2010, as well as individual interviews with two people living with HIV. Results: By comparing the discourses mapped in the campaign and those present in the interviews, some dissonance of senses, understood as forms of resistance, are identified. Discussion: Such results also lead to the discussion regarding biopower issues (Michel Foucault) and the relationship between power and resistance in historical processes of subjectivation. Conclusion: It is concluded that, before trying with campaigns to change individual's practices towards behaviors that promote health, institutional practices must be changed in order to prioritize listening to people when designing such campaigns, by applying Discourse Analysis's theoretical-methodological contributions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses contradictions in discourses and practices in connection with plurilingualism in the public education system of multilingual Switzerland. First, a historical review presents under what conditions the plurilingual paradigm has found its way into Swiss curricula. Second, some examples are taken from L2 course books to illustrate how curricular ideas have been translated into practical material. Third, it is shown what contradictory ideologies persist despite these efforts to incorporate plurilingual ideas into teaching practice. This is done on the basis of a recent case, which was about banning all languages but the official (German) during recess times at a primary school. The analysis reveals what kind of normative monolingual discourses remain strong. Shedding light on these contradictions allows the illustration of tensions between the plurilingual paradigm and monolingual norms, with which the educational context is confronted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we present and discuss the construction and articulation of these discourses during the coverage of Rio + 20, a conference that had as its main theme the Green Economy. The brazilian magazines Veja, Isto É, Época and Carta Capital are analyzed. We use Journalism Theories, under the theoretical-methodological perspective of Discourse Analysis, to understand how the selections presented in each journal determine that the reports have a certain focus and, with this, we identify the "discursive framework" of each publication. However, to address the growing debate globally, since the IV Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the discourse that predominates in the articles analyzed is that of the green economy and is then considered as the basis of the hegemonic discursive formation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the context of various conceptual turns in German-language human geography over the past decades (e.g., linguistic, cultural, and material turns), which have been adopted largely via writings from English-language human geography, theoretical perspectives in these two academic communities have been converging. However, there are still aspects that are quite distinctive for debates in the German-language context. We argue that, for example, in the case of poststructuralist approaches, a distinct development has taken place, which emphasizes the links between theoretical, methodological, and methods-oriented empirical research, e.g., through the operationalization of linguistic methods. Following Michel Foucault's notion of ‘discourse’, these empirical analyses are often referred to as ‘discourse analyses’. This paper gives an overview of the field of discourse analysis in German-language human geography and discusses possible reasons for the different ways in which discourse theories have been emerged and developed in English-language and German-language geography. We argue that there are three developments which make ‘discourse analyses’ in the German context distinct: (1) the significance of theoretical debates on the role of the subject, (2) the intensive interdisciplinary networks within the wider context of German-language social sciences and linguistics, and (3) closely related to the second point, the strong emphasis on questions of methodical implementation. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Since the early days of the internet, researchers have been interested in the distinctive use of language in digital settings. One particular feature is the use of emoticons, sequences of punctuation marks that represent facial expressions and which have recently been replaced by emoji, little colourful pictographs. Despite their popularity, research on emoji is still in its infancy. The present paper contributes to the study of emoji by testing one of the findings identified in linguistic research on typographic emoticons, namely that they may function as punctuation marks in computer-mediated communication. A corpus of messages in Spanish sent through the smartphone application WhatsApp was retrieved and chats containing emoji were selected and analysed. Quantitative analysis showed that emoji were used similarly to final punctuation marks. Nevertheless, a discursive analytical approach to the corpus revealed that emoji and punctuation do not carry out the same functions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As the 21st Century opened the controversial and unstable discipline of `academic psychology' seemed to separating into two radically distinct and perhaps irreconcilable domains. Discursive psychology focused on the management of meaning in a world of norms while Neuropsychology focused on the investigation of brain and cognitive processes. These two domains can be reconciled in a hybrid science that brings them together into a synthesis more powerful than anything psychologists have achieved before. In this paper means Hybrid psychology depends on the intuition that while brains can be assimilated into the world of persons, people cannot be assimilated into the world of cell structures and molecular processes. The project of setting up a hybrid science, in which the symbol using capacities of human beings are brought into a unified scheme with the organic aspects of members of the species homo sapiens, demands the dissolution of the mind-body problem, somehow setting it aside as an illusion, based on a mistaken presupposition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]