Aletta Norval
South African political theorist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Aletta Norval is a South African born political theorist. she is Deputy Vice-Chancellor at Anglia Ruskin University. A prominent member of the Essex School of discourse analysis, she is mainly known for her deconstructionist analysis of Apartheid discourse, for her methodological contributions to discourse analysis and for her work on decentred, democratic and poststructuralist political theory. Her other research interests include feminist theory, South-African politics, ethnicity and the politics of race. More recently, she has worked on biometrics, focussing on issues of citizen consent to identity management techniques.
Aletta Norval's Published Works
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- Discourse Theory and Political Analysis Identities, Hegemonies and Social Change (2000) (363)
- Deconstructing Apartheid Discourse (1996) (215)
- Aversive Democracy: Inheritance and Originality in the Democratic Tradition (2008) (162)
- Review Article: The Things We Do with Words – Contemporary Approaches to the Analysis of Ideology (2000) (96)
- Discourse Analysis: varieties and methods (2009) (92)
- Memory, Identity and the (Im)possibility of Reconciliation: The Work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa (1998) (91)
- Open Citizens' Juries and the Politics of Sustainability (2003) (75)
- Deconstruction and Criticism (1999) (62)
- Hegemony after deconstruction: the consequences of undecidability (2004) (59)
- “Writing a Name in the Sky”: Rancière, Cavell, and the Possibility of Egalitarian Inscription (2012) (49)
- Practices of Freedom: Decentred Governance, Conflict and Democratic Participation (2016) (46)
- Democratic Identification (2006) (43)
- Truth and Reconciliation: the Birth of the Present and the Reworking of History (1999) (38)
- South Africa in Transition: New Theoretical Perspectives (1998) (30)
- South Africa in Transition (1998) (28)
- Democracy, pluralization, and voice (2009) (26)
- ‘No reconciliation without redress’: articulating political demands in post-transitional South Africa (2009) (21)
- Rethinking Ethnicity: Identification, Hybridity and Democracy (1999) (17)
- Public faces? A critical exploration of the diffusion of face recognition technologies in online social networks (2017) (17)
- The politics of antagonism (2016) (15)
- Practices of Freedom: Deliberative, Agonistic and Aversive Grammars of Democracy: The Question of Criteria (2014) (15)
- Reinventing the Politics of Cultural Recognition: The Freedom Front and the Demand for a Volkstaat (1998) (14)
- Introduction: Democracy, conflict and participation in decentred governance (2014) (14)
- Passionate subjectivity, contestation and acknowledgement: Rereading Austin and Cavell (2009) (11)
- Future trajectories of research in discourse theory: Political frontiers, myths and imaginaries, hegemony (2000) (11)
- Politics and the Political (2014) (9)
- Beyond deliberation: agonistic and aversive grammars of democracy: the question of criteria (2014) (8)
- “Don’t Talk Back!”—The Subjective Conditions of Critical Public Debate (2012) (8)
- Poststructuralist Conceptions of Ideology (2013) (8)
- Review Article: Truth and Reconciliation: the Birth of the Present and the Reworking of History (1999) (7)
- Decolonization, demonization and difference: the difficult constitution of a nation (1995) (7)
- Reconstructing National Identity and Renegotiating Memory: The Work of the TRC (2020) (6)
- Democracy, critique and the ontological turn (2017) (6)
- Searching for a Method in the Madness: Apartheid and Influx Control (1993) (5)
- Aversive Democracy: Bibliography (2007) (5)
- The Politics of Ethnicity and Identity (2012) (4)
- Moral perfectionism and democratic responsiveness (2011) (3)
- A Democratic Politics of Acknowledgement: Political Judgment, Imagination, and Exemplarity (2010) (3)
- Designing ‘the Political’ in (and out of) Neighbourhood Governance (2014) (3)
- Ernesto Laclau (2016) (3)
- Seeing Like a Citizen: Exploring Public Views of Biometrics (2019) (2)
- Minoritarian Politics and the Pluralisation of Democracy (1993) (2)
- Introduction: Changing Paradigms and the Politics of Transition in South Africa (1998) (2)
- The politics of homecoming? Contending identities in contemporary South Africa or identité à venir (1996) (2)
- The Dichotomization of Political Space and the Crisis of Apartheid Discourse (1994) (1)
- Social Inquiry after Wittgenstein and Kuhn. Leaving Everything as It Is. By John G. Gunnell. New York: Columbia University Press. 2014. 280p. $55.00. (2016) (1)
- The ‘Boerewors Curtain’ and the ‘Metropole’: Twenty Years of Southern African Studies (1994) (1)
- Book Notes (2014) (1)
- Review essay : The new democracy: feminism between multiculturalism and anti-essentialism (1998) (1)
- Practices of Citizenization and Democratic Claim-making (2014) (1)
- Dislocation in context (2009) (1)
- Imagining otherwise: Dislocation, subjectivity and the articulation of political demands (2014) (1)
- Aversive Democracy: Democratic argumentation: rhetoric and imagination (2007) (0)
- Best New Journal (2005) (0)
- Discourse Analysis Network Programme of Events (2008) (0)
- Editorial introduction: Politics, ethics, identity reconsidering the political (1996) (0)
- Book Review: Becoming Who We Are: Politics and Practical Philosophy in the Work of Stanley Cavell, by Andrew Norris (2018) (0)
- Book review: Joan Wallach Scott, Sex and Secularism (2019) (0)
- Book Review: Creating order. Culture as politics in 19th and 20th century South Africa (1999) (0)
- Sex and Secularism, by Joan Wallach Scott (2019) (0)
- The Politics of Homecoming (1994) (0)
- Aversive Democracy: Democracy, universalization and (dis)agreement (2007) (0)
- Seeing like a citizen: Challenging surveillance in the biometric state (2012) (0)
- Nightsong: Performance, Power, and Practice in South Africa.@@@Deconstructing Apartheid Discourse. (1997) (0)
- Insurgent Citizenship: Radicalism, Co-optation and Neighbourhood Geopolitics among the Palestinian Citizens of Haifa, Israel (2014) (0)
- New Politics in/about the Continent at Start of Twenty-First Century? (1999) (0)
- Africa Today 46.3: Book Reviews and Books Received (2003) (0)
- Staging Democracy – Opacity and Turning (2011) (0)
- ‘Becoming black’: Acting otherwise and re-imagining community (2014) (0)
- Aversive Democracy: Democratic identification and aspect change (2007) (0)
- Aversive Democracy: Introduction: towards an aversive account of democracy (2007) (0)
- Democracy, critique and the ontological turn (2017) (0)
- Book Review: Siba N'Zatioula Grovogui, Sovereigns, Quasi Sovereigns, and Africans : Race and Self-Determination in International Law (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1996, 282 pp., £15.95 pbk.) (1996) (0)
- Aversive Democracy: Conclusion: aversive democracy – exemplarity, imagination and passion (2007) (0)
- BEST NEW JOURNAL (2006) (0)
- Aversive Democracy: Democratic subjectivity: the promise of democratic community (2007) (0)
- Debate The Subjective Conditions of Critical Public (2014) (0)
- Review Essay : Reconsidering Feminism : Postmodernity and/or Postfeminism? (1996) (0)
- EU Democracy Promotion Rethought: The Case of Egypt (2011) (0)
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