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Nico Carpentier
Title of the presentation:
Glocal and translocal research practices as a counterweight for Europeanisation ideologies
Short abstract of the presentation:
Communication and media studies has for some time now been established as a discipline in most European countries. It has become a thriving discipline, and even at the national level a house with many rooms. Not unlike Claude Lefort's reflection on the empty place of power in contemporary democracies, we can say that the heart of the discipline is empty, but at the same time filled by a continuous stream of practices at the level of research, pedagogy, representation and (public) interventions. Arguably, exactly our interdisciplinary origins provides the support for this structural openness of the discipline, making it oscillate between a discipline and a field, and between the disciplining effects of the discipline and the nomadic opportunities of the field, but also between the structuring capacities of the discipline and the vagabond uncertainties of the field. Without underestimating the advantages of internationalisation and the need to overcome provincialism, this presentation will discuss the need for the glocalisation and translocalisation of research, where local contexts are taken seriously and small-scale social processes are rigorously investigated, but at the same time where research enters into a dialogue with its surroundings.
Short biography:
Nico Carpentier (PhD) is an assistant professor working at the Communication Studies Department of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB - Free University of Brussels). He is co-director of the VUB research centre CEMESO and vice-president of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA). His theoretical focus is on discourse theory, his research interests are situated in the relationship between media, journalism, politics and culture, especially towards social domains as war & conflict, ideology, participation and democracy. He has authored, co-authored and edited 12 books in Dutch, French and English.
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