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Middle Class Alterity: A Critical Discourse Analysis of National Economic Identity

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dc.contributor.advisorPilon, Dennis M.
dc.contributor.authorFacca, Mark
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-11T12:51:37Z
dc.date.available2020-05-11T12:51:37Z
dc.date.copyright2019-11
dc.date.issued2020-05-11
dc.date.updated2020-05-11T12:51:36Z
dc.degree.disciplinePolitical Science
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMA - Master of Arts
dc.description.abstractLacking concreteness and context, the use of the middle class in Canadian political discourse of recent years is simultaneously ambiguous and ubiquitous. What is meant by the middle class? Who is a member of this meta-material social stratification? Why is it so prominent in political rhetoric? And, what are the consequences of using the middle class as the primary identity guiding federal fiscal policy? With these questions in mind, this thesis explores the political discourse surrounding the usages of the middle class in an attempt to improve our understanding of how identity is operationalized discursively. Grounded in the theoretical work of Antonio Gramsci, it will be argued that discursively constructed identities, operationalized hegemonically through othering rhetoric, are used in politics to garner mass consent, frame individual/collective identity, and maintain structures of domination and oppression.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10315/37449
dc.languageen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectRhetoric
dc.subject.keywordsMiddle class
dc.subject.keywordsCritical discourse analysis
dc.subject.keywordsPolitical discourse
dc.subject.keywordsHegemony
dc.subject.keywordsIdentity
dc.subject.keywordsNational economic identity
dc.subject.keywordsFederal budget
dc.subject.keywordsFiscal policy
dc.subject.keywordsCanadian politics
dc.titleMiddle Class Alterity: A Critical Discourse Analysis of National Economic Identity
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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