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Gendered Identity Constructions in Political Discourse: The Cases of Denmark and Hungary

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Politics and policies develop and are (re) produced in a constant struggle between competing notions or understandings of identity, issues and society overall (Dryzek 2005), which taken together form a political discourse. Political actors and their political discourses interact in public debates and public spaces and (together with other actors) shape common understandings in a process that can be characterised as intersubjective construction of meaning (Christiansen, Jørgensen and Wiener 1999), which in turn predetermines the options available for political action.

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© 2013 Lise Rolandsen Agustín and Robert Sata

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Agustín, L.R., Sata, R. (2013). Gendered Identity Constructions in Political Discourse: The Cases of Denmark and Hungary. In: Siim, B., Mokre, M. (eds) Negotiating Gender and Diversity in an Emergent European Public Sphere. Gender and Politics Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137291295_4

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