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Organizing spontaneous grammars in hegemony-building of right-wing populism, and religious legitimization of autonomy in debates about social inequality
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | This paper will present the provisional results of a wide-ranging discursive analysis of elite political and religious figures, parties, think tanks, congregations, and initiatives mainly affiliated with dominant Christian traditions, in the case of two nation-state contexts, the United States and Poland. My research endeavor sought to embed the organization of social categories and identities under study, representing cultural and economic intersections of social inequality, in the global context of transformations of social formations, which are characterized by the disorganization and disarticulation of collective demands reinventing the power competition in fluctuating mass mobilization of emotive outreach as the new terrain of Gramscian hegemonic politics. This issue will be demonstrated in cases, where religious and political actors identify and advocate certain models within the public-private nexus to address social crises while interpreting the key concepts such as autonomy and security within political metaphors of ideological forms and through organizing, codifying, and legitimizing certain spontaneous grammars. It will lend a necessary material dimension to the discursive struggle over the conceptualization of autonomy, which has been explored in previous years mostly in the surface cultural features of referential social issues in scholarship on the well-known term culture wars. Focusing on the forming heterogeneous webs of interdependencies between the political, domestic economic, and religious interest groups and the intertwining economic and cultural autonomy within more or less coherent convergences of meaning patterns can give insight into the process of creating a complex mosaic of ideological forms that mediate basic socio-economic realities in both societies. |
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