Reviews for Prague Sprung: Notes and Voices from the New World

The average rating for Prague Sprung: Notes and Voices from the New World based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-02-15 00:00:00 Rick Havelick This enlightening book was introduced to me by my professor Dr. Homeira Moshirzadeh when I had just begun working on my master's thesis proposal. For a junior researcher who had read about discourse analysis mostly in theory and had rarely used it for a large-scale study, this book was the holy grail. I was still trying to find a way to narrow down the scope of my research at the time and Hansen's quadrilateral research model for a discursive analysis of identity (Based on the number of selves, the inter-textual models that would be analyzed, the temporal perspective of the research and finally the number of events studied) really paved the way for me in this regard, hence I can even say that my actual thesis question was formulated thanks to this book. It also introduced me to several other theorists including but not limited to Ole Wæver, the rock star of security studies, whose work has been my muse ever since, Roxanne Doty, whose 1997 work helped me through the empirical part of my research and Henrik Larsen, whose views on Europeanness familiarized me with "Othering" more than ever. All in all, now that I have read a handful of works on identity, security, Othering, Securitization, De-Securitization and discourse analysis, I find that at some points my viewpoints diverge from those of Hansen's but this work remains to be among the most eye-opening works I have ever read and Lene Hansen remains to be among the top people who have influenced my research interest and probably my whole academic path.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-07-16 00:00:00 David Birkel For my "Hegemony in International Politics" seminar. I know very little about the Bosnian war still, but this gave me a deeper insight into intertextuality.