Education
Her doctoral thesis, completed under the supervision of Ernesto Laclau, was entitled ‘Accounting for Apartheid: Its Emergence, Logic and Crisis’.
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Aversive Democracy: Inheritance and Originality in the Democratic Tradition
(The twenty-first century has brought a renewed interest i...)
The twenty-first century has brought a renewed interest in democratic theory and practices, creating a complicated relationship between time-honoured democratic traditions and new forms of political participation. Reflecting on this interplay between tradition and innovation, Aletta J. Norval offers fresh insights into the global complexities of the formation of democratic subjectivity, the difficult emergence and articulation of political claims, the constitution of democratic relations between citizens and the deepening of our democratic imagination. Aversive Democracy draws inspiration from a critical engagement with deliberative and post-structuralist models of democracy, whilst offering a distinctive reading inspired by contemporary work on the later Wittgenstein. This is a creative and insightful work which reorients democratic theory, elucidating the character of the commitments we engage in when we participate in democratic life together.
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Aletta Norval
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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. Following the completion of her doctoral studies, Norval started an academic career at the Department of Government at Essex University, where she is currently a Professor.
She was Director of the Doctor of Philosophy Programme in Ideology and Discourse Analysis and co-director of the Centre for Theoretical Studies in the Humanities and the Social Sciences, both founded by Ernesto Laclau.
She was Dean of Postgraduate Research and Education (2012-2013) and has been appointed as Pro-Vice-Chancellor Education at the University of Essex.
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Aversive Democracy: Inheritance and Originality in the Democratic Tradition
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Aversive Democracy: Inheritance and Originality in the Democratic Tradition
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Norval studied political science at the University of Johannesburg (South Africa) and discourse analysis at Essex University. She received a master"s degree from the University of Johannesburg, and a Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy from the Ideology and Discourse Analysis programme at the University of Essex. Norval has authored and co-edited many books and has published numerous articles in journals such as: "American Political Science Review", "Ethics & Global Politics", Journal of Political Ideologies.
Political Theory; Diacritics. Philosophy and Social Criticism. Constellations; Political Studies.
Acta Philosophica; Critical Discourse Studies. British Journal of Political Science.
Membership
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 democratic and poststructuralist political theory. She is also member of the Privacy Expert Group of the Biometrics Institute, London.
