counter-discourses

[felicitas macgilchrist]

Hi there, 
I am looking for help and a push in the right direction. And perhaps collaboration?! Is anyone working on 'counter-discourses'? Or 'subversive / emancipatory / resistant' discourses?

i'm researching the representation of Russia in the press. At the moment i'm fascinated by the way an 'oppositional' discourse/opinion/position finds its way into a journal (e.g. for one particular newspaper in Britain, Russia is consistently the Big Bad Guy [Re-Stalinization, brutality in Chechnya, roll-back of democracy, etc], but sometimes a comment piece is printed which supports Russian policies and actions).

So far i haven't found much published work on counter-discourses from a CDA perspective. There is a lot of writing on activism and alternative media contesting the mainstream media (e.g. McChesney 2004, Atton 2002, Couldry and Curran 2003), but there's nothing discursive about these papers. 
There is Jim Martin and David Rose's (2003) Positive Discourse Analysis from SFL, but they don't really discuss 'contesting' a dominant position; their focus is more on positive, uplifting texts.
Then there is George Lakoff (2004) and his metaphoric re-framing of the debate - which does suggest ways of countering a prevalent position, e.g., in the nation-as-family, progressives should reframe politicians as 'nurturing parent' (as progressives see them), rather than 'strict father' (the conservatives' view). But he only focuses on the overarching/underlying conceptual metaphor. 

Carmen Rosa Caldas-Couthard (2003) wrote an interesting piece mentioning counter-discourse: about the Brazilian press reaction to foreign press coverage of Brazil, and also the way they use parody to mock the 'first world'. But she is analysing a press organization which counters a different press organization (not an article which counters the dominant position in that same newspaper).
The final thing which looks intriguing is Michael Bomberg and Molly Andrews (Eds) (2004) 'Considering Counter-Narratives: Narrating, resisting, making sense'. My library is working on it!

Can you add to this list?!
Thanks, 
Flyss

Atton, C. (2002). "News Cultures and New Social Movements: radical journalism and the mainstream media." Journalism Studies 3(4): 491-505.



Caldas-Couthard, C. R. (2003). 'Cross-cultural representations of 'Otherness' in media discourse'. In Weiss, G. and Wodak, R., Critical Discourse Analysis: Theory and Interdisciplinarity. New York, Palgrave Macmillan.

             

Couldry, N. and Curran J., Eds. (2003). Contesting Media Power: Alternative Media in a Networked World. Oxford, Rowman and Littlefield.



Lakoff, G. (2004). Don't think of an elephant! : know your values and frame the debate: the essential guide for progressives. White River Junction, Vt., Chelsea Green Pub Co.



Martin, J. and Rose, D. (2002) Working With Discourse : Meaning beyond the clause. London, Continuum.

             

McChesney, R. W. and Scott, Ben, Eds. (2004). Our Unfree Press : 100 years of radical media criticism. New York, New Press.



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