The Discourse Unit was founded in 1990 by Erica Burman and Ian Parker, and operates as a trans-institutional collaborative centre which supports a variety of qualitative and theoretical research projects contributing to the development of radical theory and practice. The term ‘discourse’ is used primarily in critical hermeneutic and structuralist senses to include inquiries influenced by feminism and psychoanalysis. The centre functions: (i) as a teaching resource base for qualitative and feminist work; (ii) as a support unit for the (re)production of radical academic theory; (iii) as a networking centre for the development of critical perspectives in action research.
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RESOURCEFUL LINKS:
(a) Organisations
(b) Websites
- Academy for the Study of the Psychoanalytic Arts
- Affinities: A Journal of Radical Theory, Culture, and Action
- Circle for Lacanian Ideology Critique
- Deleuze Studies at ERI MMU
- Initiative Critical Psychology Vienna
- International Viewpoint
- Journal of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research
- Kurt Danziger
- Lacan speaking
- Mental Magazine
- Outlines
- Psychology and Marxism
- Psychology in Society
- Radical Psychology Journal
- Social Action
- Teoría y Crítica de la Psicología
- TripleC – Cognition, Communication, Co-operation
(c) Materials
- Academy for the Study of the Psychoanalytic Arts
- Annual Review of Critical Psychology
- Asylum
- Criticalminded at Psychminded
- Discourse Analysis Online
- Forum Qualitative Research
- International Journal of Critical Psychology
- Journal of Critical Psychology, Counselling and Psychotherapy
- Mental Magazine
- Qualitative Research in Psychology
- Radical Psychology Journal
- Social Practice / Psychological Theorizing
(d) Texts
- Willy Apollon, ‘Vodou: the crisis of possession’,
- Alain Badiou, ‘On the truth-process’,
- Michael Billig ‘ Psychology, Racism and Fascism’,
- Teresa Ebert, ‘(Untimely) critiques for a red feminism’,
- Paul Feyerabend, ‘ Against Method : analytical index and concluding chapter’,
- Michel Foucault, ‘What is enlightenment’
- Jo Freeman, ‘The tyranny of structurelessness’,
- Leon Trotsky, ‘Why Marxists oppose individual terrorism’,
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